Apps 2d canvas bitmap sprite sheet animation help

[Handroidgames]

i want to create a basic animation with a sprite sheet.
there is only one row with about 2 pics (that's the first animation).
does anyone have a good tutorial? i looked up some and i couldn't find anything easy to understand.
thanks!

 

[JiMMaR]

are you using any engine ?

 

[mattwien]

Hi Handroidgames,

I'd really recommend to use an engine to do this tasks.
I know about two free engines arround: e3roid and Andengine.

I've also put some information about the two engines in my blog:
Game Development | Matthias's Android Game Development

Both engines have some good tutorials and examples to get into it quite easy.
I also had some difficulties to build everything from scratch - and you can save so much time when you just use a 2d engine.

 

[jonbonazza]

If you are going for 2d games, you should use the OpenGL ES wrapper classes (or even Native code using the NDK if you can) to do your drawing. Until SDK v14 (current), the Canvas API is not hardware accelerated, and is very slow.