I'm working on my first game and I'm a bit stuck. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create a UI or HUD. What I am trying to do is get the game screen to take up about 75% of the screen and an overlay with buttons to purchase things to take up the other 25% of the screen. The game itself would be full screen.
I have looked for game tutorials to see if I could see how it was done there but I am not having any luck. I have considered how framelayout might work but can't quite grasp the concept. Any help or a direction on where to go to find an answer would be appreciated.
This article is very useful.
http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/beginning-android-game
Before trying to create a HUD or anything like that, make a character that animates and that you can move around the screen.
ie. tap a location, the character walks to it.
From there, the HUD, GUI etc. will make more sense.