Exercise: Fore
A golf course is a challenge because of its obstacles, so it makes a good model for an app when we want to practice working with edges, collisions, palettes, and sprites.
Create a new project and name it Fore. We are then going to become golf course architects and design the first hole.
1. We need the following elements: a canvas, two balls, and a clock.
2. The canvas should fill the screen: Set the width to Fill Parent and the height to 400 pixels. Then make the background green.
3. Make the ball white and give it a radius of 8 (or whatever you find makes the best size for flicking across the screen—see Figure 7.8).
Figure 7.8 ...
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