Learning Java by Building Android Games

Summary

We discussed that so far, it has not been not important to completely understand exactly how the code works. This is because it will act just as a container for the code we write in the rest of the book. However, as we cover in detail topics such as methods in Chapter 4, Discovering Loops and Methods, and classes in Chapter 6, OOP – Using Other People's Hard Work, we will begin to make sense of all of the code in our games.

We discussed the somewhat complex Android life cycle in detail. We learned that all we need to understand at this stage is that we must write our code within the correct methods that relate to different phases of the life cycle. Then we will have no trouble making good progress with learning Java. As with classes and ...