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Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide
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Android Game Programming: A Developer’s Guide

by John Horton, Raul Portales
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1089 pages
23h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Showing controller instructions

One of the special requirements for an app to be approved for Android TV is to provide a dialog indicating how the controller is mapped. For this Google provides us with a template that we can use and it is available online: (http://developer.android.com/training/tv/games/index.html).

Showing controller instructions

Template for controller mapping

We already have a dialog that is displayed when a controller is connected, but we never updated it from being just an AlertDialog. It is time we made it a custom dialog.

The logic for phones was to show the dialog only the first time the main menu was loaded and a controller was connected. For Android TV, ...

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