Androjig v 1.0


François Pessaux (c) July 2011

What is AndroJig ?

AndroJig is a jigsaw game. Starting from an image scattered into several pieces, the aim is to rebuild this image.
Images can be chosen either from the ones available on your device (phone, tablet) or by searching on Internet for some keywords.

Time is not limited and the game can be interrupted at any moment then continued thanks to an automated saving mechanism.

The number of pieces the image is scattered into can be chosen among a pre-computed set of resolutions guarantying that pieces won't be too small and will have a global square shape (however, the shape is not a square, is it a usual jigsaw shape). This means that puzzles can contain little or lot of pieces according to your choice.

How to use it ?

AndroJig presents 5 views:


Welcome view menus

Help

Displays the present help page.

About

Shows the current version of AndroJig.

Quit

Allows to quit AndroJig avoiding leaving it running in background, hence frying resources.

Starting a new game

Pressing the "Setup New Game" button sends you to the setup view in which you will choose the image and the number of pieces of the jigsaw.

There are 2 ways to select an image:

Selecting image from device

This allows to pick an image from any "provider" available on your device: camera, gallery, files browser, and so on. The number of "providers" depends on the features of your device and the installed applications. For instance, if you installed a files browser, you will be able to inspect the directories of your device and pick found images.

Selecting image from the WEB

Selecting this sends you on the WEB search view in which you can enter keywords and find related images on the WEB. This feature uses Google Search and obviously requires your device to have access to the net.

Keywords are to be entered in the upper text edit area. Pressing the "Enter" key or the "Search" button triggers the search.

You can access next / previous results of the search using the "Previous Images" / "Next Images" buttons.

Found images are displayed in the middle part of the screen and you can switch between them by dragging in the left and right directions.

To select the desired image, simply click on it. The selected image size will then be display in the "Selected Image Size" area below the displayed found images.

Once an image is selected, you can press the "Ok" button to validate and return to the setup view to finalize you setup.

It may happen that, even if the thumbnail image was shown in the search result, the real image is no more available on the hosting WEB site. In this case, an error message is displayed to notify this and you remain on the WEB search view.

Once an image is selected...


It is time to finalize your game configuration. You are then back to the setup view that was updated with the image information and the pre-computed available sizes of jigsaw.
Image information summarizes:
Once the image is selected, you just need to select the resolution you want for the game and press "Ok" to launch the game and be sent to the play view.

Continuing the saved game

AndroJig automatically saves the current running game when the application gets closed or when you return to the welcome view without having finished the jigsaw by using the "Leave Jigsaw" menu. Pressing the "Continue Saved Game" button reloads this saved data and removes them. This means 2 things:
Once this option is selected, the game directly switches onto the play view.

Playing


The play view is the area where you play the game and solve the jigsaw. Moving a piece is done pressing it and dragging it at the desired location. If 2 correct pieces get close enough, they will clip together automatically. Pieces can be clipped together at any point of the screen, no need they are at their final position in the global image.

Once all pieces are clipped and the image is rebuilt, the game ends and you get a notification. Once you have watched your marvelous image enough ;) you can leave the game using the menu "Leave Jigsaw".

Play view menus

When invoking the menu button, 3 items are available:

Known issues

AndroJig still suffers little known problems that do not prevent having fun but that are worthy be to known in order to workaround.

Release notes

How to reach me ?

If you want to reach me, please email me at: francois_pessaux@yahoo.fr.