Where to place main game loop in android game

Question

Hi, everyone!

I am trying to write some skeleton for a game on android, using OpenGL. I would like to know, where should I place my main game loop code?

So far, my best candidate is Renderer.onDrawFrame(...) method, which seems to be called per-frame, so the code looks like this:

void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) 
{
     preLoopActions();

     m_gameScene->onUpdate();
     m_gameScene->onRender(gl);

     postLoopActions();
}

Is there any better approach? I dislike this one because 1) I have to mix updating and rendering in the place, where android expects me just to render, and 2) this method seems to be called from a separate "rendering thread", which increases game complexity.

Answer 1

Have you considered working with framework like AndEngine. It has something called as a GameActivity which makes life quite easy. The examples quite easy to pick up on.