The final goal of creating a battleship game was porting it to Android so I can run it on my phone. I was not in the mood to do all configuration and remember how to do it. This changed when GluonHQ introduced start.gluon.io . In this brief post I will share my steps porting the Battleship Game to JavaFX. Android application development To take advantage of start.gluon.io I created a project and made it part of battleship maven project : The I modified the original JavaFX app so I could use it in the Android ready app: Decoupled the application setup from a pure desktop app: Instead doing setup on desktop main, I moved it to a separated class, so I could reuse the setup in mobile app; Resize: Since I didn't know the target device size, I had to react to scene resize to redraw the game boards. This was easily accomplished by adding a default method in Screen interface, which is called when Scene is resized. Then screen can modify boards size accordingly. I made more small c...
