Jul 09, 2012

Integrating PlayN with standard Android components

Over the weekend while a question came in on the PlayN google group asking how to integrate a PlayN with standard Android components. Below is a quick and dirty way to do it:

public class IntegratedViewActivity extends GameActivity {

 @Override
  public void main(){
    platform().assets().setPathPrefix("com/html5gamebook/resources");
    PlayN.run(new IntegratedView());
  }

 @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

      LinearLayout linearLayout = viewLayout();
      linearLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);  

       TextView txtView = new TextView(context());
      txtView.setText("This is a text view.");
      linearLayout.addView(txtView, 0);



      Button btn = new Button(context());
      btn.setText("Click Me");
      linearLayout.addView(btn);


      // resize game view
      gameView().setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(600, 600));
  }
 }

Here is how that looks on a device: http://imgur.com/Gh4nv

Additionally, you could create a layout xml file and use the AndroidLayoutView (returned by GameActivity.viewLayout()) directly. If you don't care about the look and feel of the widgets or maybe wanted to make all code PlayN-centric, TriplePlay could work for you as well.

Cross-posted from Google+.