Learning Java by Building Android Games

Chapter 8

Q1) What about a visual improvement for our game screen, perhaps a nice, light green grassy background instead of just black?

A) You can use most graphics programs such as Gimp or Photoshop to get the RGB value of a nice, light green grassy color. Alternatively, you can use an online color picker such as http://www.colorpicker.com/. Then look at this line in our drawGame method:

canvas.drawColor(Color.BLACK);//the background

Change it to the following line:

canvas.drawColor(Color.argb(255,186,230,177));//the background

Q2) How about adding some nice flowers to the background?

A) Here is the way to do this. Create a flower bitmap (or use mine), load it, and scale it in the usual way, in the configureDisplay method. Decide how many flowers to ...