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I want to make a tile based game for android. At the moment I am drawing each tile as a separate bitmap. I have a big for loop that reads from a string and draws different tiles depending on what character it finds to draw the level. I have allowed the user to scroll the screen using scrolling gestures. However the game is too slow. It takes a long time to update the screen after the user scrolls. I presume this is because it has to draw each tile's bitmap individually. What would be a faster way to draw the level? I was thinking I could merge all the tiles into one bitmap. But I don't know

I am used to coding in PHP but I am not really proficient with Java and this has been a problem for some time now. I expect it to be a fairly easy solution, however I cannot find any good example code any way I search it, so here goes: I am programming a game that takes place in a 2d random generated infinite world on a tile based map (nitpicking: I know it will not be truly infinite. I just expect the world to be quite large). The usual approach of map[x][y] multidimensional array started out as a basic idea, but since Java does not provide a way for non-integer (i.e. negative) array key

Is it possible to repeat a drawable in an ImageView? I manage to repeat my drawable as a divider in a ListView, but not as an ImageView. Here is my repeated image definition: <bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:src="@drawable/xdividerrepeat" android:tileMode="repeat"/> Thanks Markus Matthew Willis You could use a "dummy" view like a LinearLayout to accomplish this. Just create a LinearLayout with the size you need and set its background drawable to be your repeating bitmap. See Android Tile Bitmap . Yes it's possible. You just need to specify the scale

I'm using LibGDX to make a platformer. I'm using square tiles for the platforms but when they are drawn some of them have gaps between them. When I zoom in/out or move the camera around the gaps move position. More details: Tiles are 32x32 and I have tried both 32x32 and 64x64. Tiles are lined up 32 pixels apart (e.g. first tile would be x=0 y=0, second x=32 y=0, and so on in both x and y directions). The gaps are not texture artifacts as I have checked this. I use the TexturePacker with padding. My best guess is that it is a problem when converting the textures to screen coords but have no