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What happens when you run the code? Do the tiles from the loop show up?

Have you tried to add a test inside the onDraw method? For something called multiple times I sometimes add a counter and...

What do you mean you can't seem to spawn objects, do you mean draw them or make them exist as objects?
If you mean to draw them use the onDraw method much like you would use the paint method in...

You can make updates to the screen inside the gameView class with the onDraw method.
Inside the for loop each of your tiles are being called to redraw themselves. You can make changes to the way...

When it all boils down, xml is turned into java (and finally dalvik). The advantages to using xml come in how much easier it is to use. Really the only time you wouldn't want to use xml, is when you...

Are you using java or xml for the layout? (Android works either way but xml would most of the time be top choice)

With that, your x and y would go in the xml. As far as exactly how to do it, i...