How to change enemy size, speed, etc depending on mobile screen size?

Question

I have a game where enemies are spawned from a library at random. Their size and speed are set to work on specific dimensions. However, these specific standards won't work well on phones with small screens. Is there a way to change speed, size depending on a phone's dimensions?

You can get the screen size (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016896/how-to-get-screen-dimensions) and then set the size, speed, etc. accordingly. You can group sizes by small, medium, large and very large. — Embattled Swag, Dec 09 '13 at 20:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

you can get Screen size with following code:

  if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 13)
  {
    Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
    Point size = new Point();
    display.getSize(size);
    int width = size.x;
    int height = size.y;
   }
   else
   {
     Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); 
     int width = display.getWidth();  // deprecated
     int height = display.getHeight();  // deprecated
   }

more info, and change any thing with this information

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '13 at 08:00

For detecting the environment, check out the System Capabilities class (screenResolution, etc) http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/Capabilities.html

and for Flash settings, stageWidth and stageHeight may help: (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/Stage.html).

However, if you're targeting both small and large screens, you may want to think about two (or more) sets of FLA files, since you can't set stage size on-the-fly, and otherwise you'd be scaling graphics, bitmaps, etc. to fit on either.

You can use Config Constants (ActionScript settings) to signal to the code which environment you're compiling.

How to change enemy size, speed, etc depending on mobile screen size?

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