Simple Android Game Design

[fresh83]

Ive been self teaching myself java and android for a while now and am feeling ready to tackle my first app that ive thought up. Im not sure if its been done before but, its more or less for myself just to say i did it before tackling something bigger .

All i want the game to do is have a game that has 4 buttons that picks which button the user needs to press randomly asks them to press it in a certain amount of time and repeat. with the time to press the button progressively declining.


I tryed to think it out myself and all i could come up with was this as far as the design.

Random number generator

Attach buttons to random numbers

Countdown to game start

Game start method

Timed and declining time to input button

Generate button
Display button
receive button


Game over



im not sure if im even close here or how to implement it completly any tips or snippets of implantation of how i could make something that stays alive only if the user responds in time would be very helpful even if it isnt android.

[Junky]

Random number generator

Check out the Random class.

Attach buttons to random numbers

This doesn't make sense. What you can do is place the 4 buttons into an array and use the random number as an index into that array.

Countdown to game start

Check out the Swing Timer class

Game start method

Yes every program needs an entry point.

Timed and declining time to input button

Once again the Timer class

Generate button
Display button

Read a Swing tutorial about how to write GUI applications.

receive button

Huh? If you mean how to tell when a button was clicked then read about ActionListeners.