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MAKING BUBBLEDRAW A MULTITOUCH ANDROID APP
Our final app will be a multitouch Android version of BubbleDraw that enables the user to draw bubbles with the touch of a finger—or all 10 fingers!
The processors in Android devices are usually much smaller and slower than desktop CPUs. If you’ve ever gotten an “App Not Responding” error, you’ve seen what happens when an app consumes too much of a device’s processing power. So, instead of a timer, this version of the app will use a new approach to animation called threading, which will make the app use less processing power. Threading is what makes it possible for us to run multiple apps at the same ...
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