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GLB apps on Android can not be sent to background and front (as in iOS). Once the app is sent to background, it crashes and had to be re-launch again. This has been since the beginning.

My app sales are reallly low, but the effort to port to android is so low, that any money received is really easy money.

If your app is designed for a fixed screen size, do not try it. If it designed with multi-resolution in mind, just do it. To buy an android tablet is not a waste of money.

Try your app on pc with 640x480, 800x480 and 1024x768 resolution, they are the most common.

I once knew a guy that programmed a "demo" in the Amiga using the Action Replay machine code editor. I was so amazed... (I used AsemPro this days) I asked "what do you do if you want to insert any instruction in your code?" "-oh, easy, just type 'copy mem,size to mem+2'" 

Also I did some programs in asm in Amos... first, I do all the program in Amos, printed it on paper and translated all the instructions into ASM...

Not sure, it load only around 10-12 sprites, being 2 of them around 1024 pixels. When the app starts, it loads the sprites and display a wait-10-seconds msg. If you touch the screen, it runs "netwebend...", so really no program is really run (im talking about Glowing Sky demo)

Will do more tests later.

Also, in my app DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME there is a "bug" that only appears in the webos version.

The app will crash with no apparent reason after a few hours. I did a few tests and a custom log-file, but the crash point was not in any remarkable place (it was not in the loading routine).

I had also the bug and minimized it if I disable over-clocking; a displayed photo was shown for n seconds, so I inserted a "sleep 50" in the "delay loop" to minimize cpu usage; in the end I though it was a temperature thing. But some users report it, and one of them had very early crashes (half hour), and said me that the time was longer if he had no other apps opened, so he assumed there was a memory leak somewhere.

Notice that my TouchPad can run DFP forever in Android mode.

(I can not use webos stdout, as my devices/computer refuses to use it).

I have a Coby tablet, and it is also a good price/power one. Check their website. And they have an active MOD comunity (in mine I have ICS installed!)

www.cobyusa.com

Some time ago I was making a poker clock. I contacted dozens of online casinos to ask if they would like to sponsor it, with either publicity or even naming the full app (as some iOS clocks do). I got only a few answers, and they were really "we are not the department, use this email instead".

Vudu...

It is working for me...

ALLOWESCAPE TRUE

PRE2: The app is closed and the browser is not opened.

TP: The app is closed and the browser opens.

ALLOWESCAPE FALSE

PRE2: The app ignores the netwebend command.

TP: The app is sent back and browser opens.

Notice that I installed always the very same ipk file.

If you set in Android market as "protected", the app will only be installable on main memory.

Code (glbasic) Select Expand

android:installLocation="preferExternal"

will install in external if more memory is available.

http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html

To save data in external disk, you have to find available ones in /mnt folder or something similar.

Anyway, saving to platforminfo(documents) and (appdata) will save in app filepath.

I started in 1984 with a 2nd hand C= Vic-20. It had no books, so I have to learn with a Spectrum manual. Later we bought a C64 for work: we are photographers, so I made a titler program and a videoclub database (the 1541 was sooo slow!). Later we upgraded to an C128. And then to A500+ with genlock and ¡hard drive!.

In the Amiga a bought Amos Pro. I did my shop's Point-Of-Sale program for the Amiga, and a few more games, one of them a Lord of the Rings game (http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/anillos.html) in 1991.

I translated from english to spanish the manual of Scenary Animator 3D, and as payment I got 10.000 pts (60€) and a 2400 baud modem. At work, we have an A4000 with 2x2gb SCSI drives, VLabMotion and Tocatta for NonLinear Video Edition (I did some code in that pipe-language the Amiga had...). I spent most of my time (and my father money!) exploring BBS and FidoNet. I even got a real email then!

My home A500 broke due a ray-storm (it lost the yellow color!) and contacted Dave Hayne (one of the amiga makers!) to fix it. A dude from Germany bought me a (lisa?) chip to fix it. This was amazing for us, internet comunications in days!

At home I got an A1200 that was later expanded with a PowerPPC 603e+060/50 with Cybervision (or the hell was called) and some other expansions (a multysinc monitor). My father was amazed when I show him that I could change the eye-color of a photo using Amiga's ImageFX!

I don-t known when, but our first PC at work was a AMD K6-II at 350mhz (I was an Amiga boy!). At work, I re-did my PoS program to PC using TurboBasic, but the Amiga one was soooo nice... I had also Blitz Basic on the Amiga. There is some programs in AmigaNet.

In 2001 I sold my home's A1200, and with the money I bought a full-high-end PC, and even I some money was left!

I discovered Blitz3D for the PC, so I get it and start using it. I did a few more proyects (and updated my PoS program!).

2 Years ago I discovered GLBasic, and I love so much that I can program for my iPhone! Dude, I can even turn millionaire!

I work all my day as photographer, mainly in fron of the PC with Photoshop. My programs are done at home in my spare time.

Or an Android or WebOS version... I want it on my TouchPad! 

I am really tired... and after reading comments like "I hate the 10 secs start-screen delay", "I want more images to play with",... do they realize that it is a demo? Buy the full thing, you stupid!

Also in Dots-N-Lines there are comments like "It is cool, but only a few images to play!" (there is a button that says "buy the full version with 50 or 200 images")

Oh, and the best of all are the ones that says "it doesn't work, just crash after start". Do they thing I can read their minds? Why the hell dont they email me asking?

65.000!!!!!

Ok, a lot of thanks a lot, I thinked C++ it´s always the most faster languaje...   

Thanks to all replies

No, machine code is (Yoda said)