Tiled is a lightweight API for easily creating tilemaps in Android. It is useful for applications and games which need to display tile-based graphics.

Tilemaps are a very popular technique in 2D game development, consisting of building the game world or level map out of small, regular-shaped images called tiles. Think about any game that uses regularly repeating squares of background, and you'll probably find it uses tilemaps.

Make sure the mavenCentral() repository is enabled, add the following dependency in the module build.gradle file:

implementation "dev.aspirasoft.apis:tiled:${latestVersion}"

Replace ${latestVersion} with the latest release version number.

TiledView is a custom View which you can use in your layouts just how you would use any other view.

<dev.aspirasoft.apis.tiled.TiledView
    xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    custom:orientation="horizontal"
    custom:allowManualScroll="true"/>

If you want the view to be scrollable by touch, set the allowManualScroll attribute to true. This is disabled by default, and you can only scroll the view programmatically.

You can also set the scroll direction with the orientation attribute, which takes three values: horizontal (default) , vertical and none. In case of none, a fixed tilemap is displayed, with the whole map scaled to fit the size of the view / device screen.

In the demo app, we use this library to build a powerful Super Mario Bros. user-interface. You can watch the complete demo here.