I'm not quite clear on why one would be concerned about performance on presenting a crossword page? Even if it took a couple seconds I don't think users would be disappointed. It's like psychologically it's thinking and doing something. Devices though are getting faster and faster. Even when I did my first Android app in 2009 I put up a progress bar while it was doing a lot of calculations. You could see the bar on an emulator but it was a quick flash on an actual device.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 8:19:57 PM UTC-7, Aleksey Shurtygin wrote: > > Hi, > > I am long-time C# developer. I recently decided to play around with > Android and Java. My first project I am trying to do is to create Crossword > game. I have general idea on how to proceed but there is one thing that > still is not very clear. If anyone can provide any input I would appreciate > it. > > What would be the best way to build crossword board? I am considering > couple of ways: > > 1. Create a view/fragment for a single cell and dynamically build whole > board. With this approach I am concerned about performance. Considering I > will have a 12x12 board, that will create 124 view objects. Is that > considered to be heavy or it should be no big deal? > 2. Draw the whole thing manually and catch user's clicks/touch to add > interactivity. This probably can avoid performance issues but feels like > too much manual work. > > Do you think it makes sense to invest time into learning graphics or > creating basic GridLayout/GridView/TableLayout with 120 TextViews should do > it nicely? Or if there are any other suggestions feel free to jump in. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/d77a5130-7019-4b61-b00c-cfb8a8a636c2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
