Android Game using drawable folders how?

Issue

I'm new at Android Game Development I already read (Dummies Android Game..., Sams Teach..). I want to draw now several images (tiles) to create my map, but I also want that they are automatically scaled to the device screen as good as possible. At the moment I just know how to use images from folder drawable but they are not scaled to the screen...

I already saw some examples where they use xml files to get to images over R.id.... but for this I must use the xml as layout in the code and can't use something like this or?

 //create the view object
    view = new SurfaceView(this);
    setContentView(view);
    view.setOnTouchListener(this);

I'm a little bit confused... :(

How do other Game Programmer scale their images to the different device screens?

I would be very thankful for some examples!!!

Solution

When you use xml for drawables these are located to the drawable/ folder and not the layout/ folder.

In order to use them you call R.drawable.name_of_your_drawable not R.id.... nor R.layout.....

Another way to avoid blurring in larger screens is to provide different resources for different screen dpis for this option you have to place your drawables to

• drawable-mdpi/
• drawable-hdpi/
• drawable-xhdpi/
• etc

Note: that when you use multiple folders each drawable must have the exact name in all folders and the system decides which to pick.

Answered By - madlymad