Android Extras (Micro Game Consoles/GPS/Keyboard/Audio)

[Ian Price]

Cheers Alan

I was quite lucky with AquaVenture not requiring a Pause key, as it's turn based, so I didn't have to worry about START etc. I used their guidelines against them - they state "use B or BACK to return to menu." I did use the B button and they said "err... ummm... ok..."

[spacefractal]

Here they wanted the change, but im dedicated to add it instead, so all 3 buttons did the same (B, Back and Start does the same).... So its was only one line code to do that.

[Ian Price]

I just found out that AquaVenture will be released on GameStick on... wait for it... the 19th. Of June. Feck me!! That's unbelievable. And they were hassling me constantly to see when it would be ready.

[spacefractal]

Mine is around start of July. Im do wonder why it's take time? Promotion or that way shop using?

[Ian Price]

I contacted Carlton at PlayJam and AV's now been moved forward to 22nd May.

[spacefractal]

its seen PLATFORMINFO$("DOCUMENTS") have been desprected on KitKat, which means you cannot uses the public download folder to write files anymore, but you can only read.

With kitkat, you cannnot write on external SDCARD anymore, only on a special app folder. Here is what im in one of future update will change the PLATFORMINFO$("DOCUMENTS") dir to, if Phone have KitKat installed.

So until then, do NOT uses PLATFORMINFO$("DOCUMENTS") to save files, this is not safe at all, but instead uses PLATFORMINFO$("APPDATA") until then,

[Ian Price]

With the forum crash, we've lost the info on automatic scaling of our apps on OUYA and GS.

Would you remind us what we need to change (not the GLB code, but the Android stuffage) to scale to full-screen resolution?

Cheers.

[spacefractal]

I'm thinks I'm did that in the help file now, which should been much easier to find around.

It's was about how to change the surface in a XML file, default set to 720p (it's don't crash anymore if the strings is missing now, that was fixed I a recent version).

[Ian Price]

It's was about how to change the surface in a XML file, default set to 720p (it's don't crash anymore if the strings is missing now, that was fixed I a recent version).

Yep that was it. I can't find it in my last AE (perhaps it's too old), so I'll have a look in the new one. Cheers


[EDIT] Yep, looks like it's in the new ReadMe. 

[spacefractal]

because im forget to remove readme.txt. its is today in Android Extras for glbasic.chm. Did im include that?

Howover here its is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sp92vdwvrms87bp/readmeAE.zip

[Ian Price]

You didn't include the .CHM in the last update (2.1). Looks very good

[spacefractal]

im will update that soon. howover im might forget it so its could been checked for spelling etc. Im will add a link in the AE news thread (and purchase the app used for creating it).

[Ian Price]

Does AE (or Android itself) have problems with .JPG images? I've not been able to display them in my latest project. I've checked the name and path, but all seems OK. Are they non-compatible?

[spacefractal]

im uses jpg in both Greedy Mouse (The background Floor) and Karma Miwa (Loading Picture) without issue. Remember big and small letters have differents values. That is a comon error when working with unix/linux based thing. So if you uses .jpg as filename, but try to load as .JPG, Android (and iOS) wont find it. So checkout the spelling again.

PS. Also which size is they in? Im also seen issues with too small images as well too big.

[Ian Price]

Case sensitivity (and spelling) was the first thing I checked - I've been bitten by that before, never since. OK. Will investigate further.

If it had been just one file I would have suspected an error on my part, but as the .PNGs loaded fine and the .JPGs didn't I wondered.

The images arre 960x640 and others at 280x256; perhaps that's the issue - they are not square?