Android Studio Tic Tac Toe Game Tutorial
Wonder if you were around when we created Tic Tac Toe (or more like Noughts and Crosses, in Australia) using the HTML5 Canvas element and drag and drop methods (if you liked, or just plain box clicking, otherwise, which will be okay for mobile usage) … HTML/Javascript Canvas Tic Tac Toe Game Drag and Drop Tutorial as shown below? Well, today, we turn that into an Android mobile application using Android Studio.
Android Studio is an alternative IDE to Eclipse (and there are others too) to use the Android SDK and Java to develop mobile apps for an Android mobile device and in our aforesaid mentioned “start game”, “middle game” and “end game” view of mobile development we are just showing you the “middle game” today, but if you were to follow through … fore!!!!!!!! … and not shank … and not hook (ie. narrrrrrr … chortle, chortle) … then we may end up at Google Play with a mobile app … by the way, we talk about the “end game” at Eclipse Android App Google Play Ready Primer Tutorial (Android Studio has all this functionality and capability too).
So what are some of the concepts in the Android Studio project, for which huge help came from this great link … thanks …
- Fragments – components of the Android UI … and setting of startup fragment of interest … fragments go some way to addressing that common issue for mobile developers that all the UI elements of a mobile application fit and would ideally be displayed with a tablet but it would be best to only conditionally display some when it comes to using a smaller format mobile device such as an Android mobile phone device
- Layout in activity_main.xml … similar to Eclipse
- WebView … similar to Eclipse … allows an Internet web component in your Android mobile app
- Use of
myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);to allow Javascript functionality for the WebView - AndroidManifest.xml … INTERNET permission … similar to Eclipse
- Tools->Android->AVD Manager … emulator organization and emulator deployment help … remains the case that it is best to start the emulator all the way to the home page at the simulated device (right swipe unlocking any locks you get) … then run and attach your mobile app to this pre-established connection
Source code wise, of interest, is …
So that’s a bit about the mobile world, and so concerning the innards of that WebView …
The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management.
In today’s tutorial we show some image Drag and Drop functionality that you can use with the Canvas HTML5 element where we create a Tic Tac Toe game webpage. We thank w3schools for the great advice at this link.
The Drag and Drop does not work well on tablets, but for own Tic Tac Toe game today we allow either a drag and drop approach, or a touch/click approach.
You may want to read more at HTML Canvas Reference as a generic reference, or here, at the tutorial javascript – How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element? – Stack Overflow.
As you can imagine, this HTML canvas element, new to HTML5, can be very useful for some practical client-side web functionality.
Link to some downloadable HTML programming code … rename to tictactoe_chalkboard.html
You’ll notice heavy use of the Javascript Math.random() function.
We hope you enjoy this tutorial as a live run.
Should you find Tac Tac Toe (or even Noughts and Crosses) addictive you should see this … amazing!
Yes … you’ve reached the end … go first in each game and see if you can beat the computer!
Previous relevant HTML/Javascript Canvas Tic Tac Toe Game Drag and Drop Tutorial is shown below.
HTML/Javascript Canvas Tic Tac Toe Game Drag and Drop Tutorial
The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management.
In today’s tutorial we show some image Drag and Drop functionality that you can use with the Canvas HTML5 element where we create a Tic Tac Toe game webpage. We thank w3schools for the great advice at this link.
The Drag and Drop does not work well on tablets, but for own Tic Tac Toe game today we allow either a drag and drop approach, or a touch/click approach.
You may want to read more at HTML Canvas Reference as a generic reference, or here, at the tutorial javascript – How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element? – Stack Overflow.
As you can imagine, this HTML canvas element, new to HTML5, can be very useful for some practical client-side web functionality.
Link to some downloadable HTML programming code … rename to tictactoe_chalkboard.html
You’ll notice heavy use of the Javascript Math.random() function.
We hope you enjoy this tutorial as a live run.
Should you find Tac Tac Toe (or even Noughts and Crosses) addictive you should see this … amazing!
Yes … you’ve reached the end … go first in each game and see if you can beat the computer!
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