Simulating Thought
In a real game we’d look ahead several plys until we either reached the end of the game (a win, loss, or draw) or a timer ran out. For this example, we’ll use a timer to simulate one second of think time.
Using a Handler and postDelayed
To start, we need to declare and initialize an Android Handler instance in GameFragment.java:
| ticTacToev3/src/main/java/org/example/tictactoe/GameFragment.java | |
| | import android.os.Handler; |
| | public class GameFragment extends Fragment { |
| | // Data structures go here... |
| | private Handler mHandler = new Handler(); |
| | // ... |
| | } |
A handler is a class that lets us delay doing something until later. We call its postDelayed() method, passing it the code that we want to run when the timer ...
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