Close two arcs together - android

I'm designing a custom widget which have a gauge similar to this blue one :
(except this is a continuous gauge and not a splited one)
I tried to draw a path with two arcs :
private void drawGauge(Canvas canvas) {
canvas.save(Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG);
float degreesToDraw = positionToDegree();
gaugePath.addArc(secondArcRect, 90, degreesToDraw);
gaugePath.addArc(faceRect, 90, degreesToDraw);
gaugePath.close();
canvas.drawPath(gaugePath, gaugePaint);
canvas.restore();
}
my two arcs are well drawn but the gaugePath.close() don't work as excepted since it close the path with the gauge start points (lower points). What I want is to draw a line between the two end points of the arcs(the higher points).
Unfortunately, I've no idea about how to find their coordinates to draw this wanted line.
FYI, I'm currently drawing this :
Any idea/help ? :)

The trouble was that faceRect and secondArcRect hadn't their center aligned on the y axis.
Simply fixing this and making them sharing the same y position for their bottom-right point(to have the two arcs cross themselves at the start and then fill properly) is enough

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Rotate item in a circle shape using phone accelerometer/gravity sensor vector

I'm trying to make a small circle move in another bigger circle as a ball moving in circle relative to Android phone tilting. I'm doing this in Godot but I think the principle is the same in all game engines probably. I make a scene in Godot and add two sprites as the two circles as the following picture. I get the accelerometer 3D vector, use x and y values and calculate the angle in x and y plate (relative to y axis i.e Vector2(0, 1) ) and rotate the mentioned scene to that degree using an animation, using this code
func _process(delta: float) -> void:
var vec3 = Input.get_accelerometer()
accelVec = Vector2(-stepify(vec3.x, 0.1), -stepify(vec3.y, 0.1))
var angle = accelVec.angle_to(Vector2(0, 1))
rotateTween.interpolate_property(self, "rotation", rotation, angle, 0.2,
Tween.TRANS_LINEAR)
rotateTween.start()
return
But the problem lies in here that when the x value of accelerometer 3D vector changes from a positive to negative value i.e when the ball is at top of the circle and is going to go to the other half of the circle, it actually moves from bottom of the circle to the desired point rather than from top of the circle.
I hope I explained the problem well, though I doubt it.
I added the Gif that shows actual test on an android phone here Testing in Android.
Any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.
This is because Tween is interpolating linear values. It doesn't know it's working with angles, or that they should wrap around.
So when you're at -179 degrees and you tween to 179--a difference of 2 degrees--Tween just sees -179 -> 179 and goes through the whole circle.
You probably don't need a Tween here at all because _process() happens every frame.

How to detect shape collision - Android

I would like to detect collisions between shapes dynamically drawn on a canvas (SurfaceView) for an Android game.
I can easily use intersect method of Rect or RectF objects but the result is not very good (see picture below where I have a "false" detection).
I don't want to use Bitmap so it's impossible to use the "pixel perfect" method.
Do you know a way to do this for circle, rect, triangle and other basic shapes intersection ?
Thx for help ;)
For a good collision detection you have to create your own models behind. In those models you specify the conditions that two objects colide.
For example, a circle is described by the center position and by the radius. A square is described by the left down corner and by the edge length.
You don' t have to describe all possible poligons, you can use the so called bounding boxes, meaning that, for a complex random poligon you can use a square or whathever shape fits it best(also you can use multiple shapes for a single object).
After you have the objects in mind you compute the condition that each one of them will colide with all other shapes including itself.
In your example The sphere and the square colides if the distance between any corner of the square is greater than the circle's radius.
Here you can read more http://devmag.org.za/2009/04/13/basic-collision-detection-in-2d-part-1/
This problem can get very complex, keep it simple if you want something simple.
Here is a directly applicable method I use in my own game to detect circle and rectangle intersection. It takes the ball (which is a view in this case) and the rectangle (also a view) to be checked for collision with the ball as parameters. You can put the method in a Timer and set the interval you want the circle and rectangle to be checked for collision.
Here is the method:
public boolean intersects(BallView ball, Rectangle rect) {
boolean intersects = false;
if (ball.getX() + ball.getR() >= rect.getTheLeft() &&
ball.getX() - ball.getR() <= rect.getTheRight() &&
ball.getY() + ball.getR() <= rect.getTheBottom() &&
ball.getY() - ball.getR() >= rect.getTheTop())
{
intersects = true;
}
return intersects;
}
getR() gets the circle's radius
getX() gets the center of the circle's X position value
getTheLeft() gets the rectangle's left X value
getTheRight() gets the rectangle's right X value
getTheTop() gets the rectangle's top Y value
getTheBottom() gets the rectangle's bottom Y value
If you can't directly use this method in your code you can still conjecture the logic it entails to implement it where it would work for you. It detects all collisions without using pseudo-collision detection like a collision box for the circle.
Good luck! And if you have any questions feel free to ask, I'm here to help!
To know if a polygon in 2d is colliding with a circle, you can test, for each of its lines, where is the point on the line that is closest to the center of the circle (this might help).
Then, check if the point you found is between to two corners that make the line - that is, that the point is actually on the line, and not just on its continuation - and if the distance of that point to the center of the circle is smaller or equal to the radius of the circle. If both are true for any of the lines of the polygon, you have a collusion. You also have to check for the edge cases where the corners of the polygon might be in, or touching the circle.
For two circles, this is easier. Check the distance between the centers, and compare it to the sum of their radiuses. If the distance is smaller or equal to the sum, you have a collusion.

Android canvas.drawPoint ignores Paint.Cap round

I've been working on this for a while. This code:
Log.i(TAG, "stroke style: " + paint.getStyle());
Log.i(TAG, "stroke cap: " + paint.getStrokeCap());
canvas.drawPoint(p.x, p.y, paint);
prints 'STROKE' and 'ROUND' to the logs, but draws a black SQUARE to the map! Anyone know what I need to be doing differently to produce a dot instead of a square!?
Thanks!
EDIT
I'm going to give the below suggestion(s) of using drawCircle a shot, but I was just confused I guess because everything I've read indicates you should be able to indicate you want a circle that way. One example being this google book entry
Try to use drawCircle instead
circlePaint.setStyle(Style.FILL);
circlePaint.setAntiAlias(true);
circlePaint.setColor(0xFFFF0000); //opaque red
float radius = 10f; //10 pixels
canvas.drawCircle(p.x, p,y, radius, circlePaint);
you can try drawCircle() with p.x and p.y as center (first and second argument) and use 1 or 2 as radius depend on how big you want the dot to be and use the paint with stroke style FILL..
It draws correctly if you draw to a canvas backed by a bitmap. It doesn't seem to draw correctly if you draw directly to the screen (i.e. a canvas passed to a View's onDraw() method). Another way of getting around the problem is, therefore, to first render to a bitmap and then draw that to the screen.

Android Canvas Paint Arc Border

I am drawing an arc with a border by painting two arcs, one over the other the first being slightly larger.
The issue is with "slightly larger" this can end up with the border not always being even all the way round.
Both the arcs I am drawing have the same radius, I simply make it larger by adding a degree to the start and two degrees to the end (necessary to ensure the borders on either end of the arc are equal) and increasing the stroke width.
In the supplied picture the thicker border edge is the smallest I can possibly make it while it is still visible. (-1 degree off the inner arc)
I have considered drawing the arc outline with four separate calls two straight lines for either end and two arcs. This seems quite inefficient for what I want to achieve.
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions about how else I could draw a border thats even, minimizing the number of draw/canvas rotation calls if possible.
Relevant code sample for current solution:
Paint mOutlinePaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
Paint mFillPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
mFillPaint.setStyle(Style.STROKE);
mFillPaint.setXfermode(new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC));
mFillPaint.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
mFillPaint.setStrokeWidth(mValueWidth);
mOutlinePaint.setStyle(Style.STROKE);
mOutlinePaint.setStrokeWidth(mBorderWidth);
mOutlinePaint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
mRect.set(mHalfXSubRadius, mHalfYSubRadius, mHalfXAddRadius, mHalfYAddRadius);
canvas.drawArc(mRect, ARC_START-1, MAX_ARC+2, false, mOutlinePaint);
canvas.drawArc(mRect, ARC_START, MAX_ARC, false, mFillPaint);
U shouldnt make your arc bigger, instead try to draw the same sized arc (in white), X pixel right,down,up,left,corners as well (total of 8 drawings).
where X is the border size u want.
after that draw the main arc (in gray) in the middle.
psuedo code:
paint=white;
drawArc(x,y+2);
drawArc(x,y-2);
drawArc(x+2,y+2);
drawArc(x+2,y-2);
drawArc(x-2,y+2);
drawArc(x-2,y+2);
drawArc(x+2,y);
drawArc(x-2,y);
paint=gray;
drawArc(x,y);

android 2d arc collision detection

i have a rotated arc drawn using android 2d graphics
c.drawArc(new RectF(50, 50, 250, 250), 30, 270, true, paint);
the arc will rotate while the game is running ,
i wanna know how i can detect if any other game objects(rects ,circles) collide with it ??
this is the first time for me to write a game :)
i saw something like this in http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/core/01/
Thanks in advance
Arc collisions are slightly harder then normal collisions, but using boolean algebra you can easily check if a given point is inside your arc.
Take a look at the following picture.
There are 3 objects here. The black sphere, this visualizes your arc, if something collides with it, it might be inside your arc. The red sphere on top of the black sphere, this visualizes the 'inside' of the arc, if something is inside the red sphere, it's definately not 'inside' the arc. Now there is also the green triangle that Visualizes the 'cut-off' of your arc, anything inside the green triangle is also definately not in your arc.
Testing if something is inside the black sphere is easy. (object's distance to center of sphere <= radius of sphere). Same for the red sphere. The green triangle is a bit tricky, you first have to construct this. Find the start and end radians of your arc. and rotate a unit vector by start radians. Then rotate a unit vector by end radians. Lengthen both these vectors by 2 * the radius of the black sphere. Now use the center point of your arc and the positions of two vectors with added the center position as the 3 points of the triangle. You can then use one of the point-triangle collision solvers: http://www.bing.com/search?q=point+triangle+collision&go=&form=QBLH&scope=web
So remember: collision with arc = (collision with black sphere) && !(collision with red sphere) && !(collision with green triangle).

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