I have started writting some small articles about doing some game dev on the android. These are not opengl tutorials they use the canvas api...hence for beginners. But there still alot that can be done on with canvas for simple games.

The first artivle covers the gameloop and sprites.
http://warriormill.com/2009/10/adroid-g ... p-sprites/

The second builds on the 1st creating a player object and input controls
http://warriormill.com/2009/10/adroid-g ... -controls/

In the next article im going build upon it and make a tile engine that uses a the base of the sprite class, its already coded thats the easy part you can see it in action here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryh8ysPV6Do

This is still advanced for me and I struggled very badly in your tutorial last night. But I will keep trying! Thanks, you put a lot of effort into this

where did you have the most trouble, i don't mind going back and maybe putting more information up. Also did you have trouble getting the source code to compile?

I'm really inexperienced and lots of these commands are entirely new to me I am at work now and eclipse/avd won't work on my computer here (PowerPC-based Mac). So I will reply later tonight when off work and looking at the code on my home computer!

Interesting articles/tutorials warriormill, will you be continuing them?

It took me a bit of time to get through the code of the first tutorial as there is a lot going on with the game loop and over-riding methods (I am a beginner so trying to pick it up as I go). But once I got the hang of it I felt pretty comfortable with it. Would love to see more!

The code is very difficult to read due to the lack of indentation (might want to encapsulate the code in a blockquote tag) and commenting. I haven't made it through the tutorial yet, but I'm noticing those two things are missing and would improve the effectiveness.

To Make This More User Friendly Why Not Break Down The Code More And Explain What Does What In The loop And Such

Yeah, for someone who doesn't already know Java, it would really help to have each line explained.

Yeah I would NOT call that game loop blog for beginners.

All a beginner needs is,

How to show a view,

Then how to make an image flash off and on.

i.e. just a game loop with doPhysics(), doState(), doDraw() in it.

(I wish i could actually find this somewere :p )

*EDIT*

Oh look I found it

android_application_structure_for_game-t8465.html

it also links to :

2d_tutorial-t3120.html