Android Support

[Andru]

the crappy and slow emulator that comes with the sdk

On my machine it starts in 15 seconds and works fine for testing Also no need to restart it every time.

[wagenheimer]

Tested it on a MOTOROLA DEFY™!
Solid 60 fps! =)

I need to test something more heavy! =P

[Daikrys]

its a while since i tested the sdk emulator but it was kinda slowly
the liveandroid runs just fine on virtualbox but maybe i give the sdk emulator another try

[Andru]

New features:
- playing sounds and music(streaming from memory) via OpenAL
- headers and compiled Chipmunk(ARMv5 version with soft-float is quite slow, so I will try to build it for ARMv6 with VFPv2 and test later)
- touch input(but I need some device with real multi-touch to test my code)

But due to some FreePascal incompatibilities with Android it's quite hard to make some progress in low-level parts of this port, e.g. unit cthreads doesn't work so I need to use my own unit with pthreads.

[chronozphere]

Can you share with me, how you managed to get OpenAL working on Android? I believe it is not part of the NDK. Did you build OpenAL yourself from source?

Thanks

[Andru]

I use this fork.

[Andru]

why Zengl dosen't have a Net Feature Till now ?

Because I never do things "for fun" in which I'm not interested

[chronozphere]

Very interesting. Good to see they made OpenAL work on android.

Another question: You probably encountered some problems while you made ZenGL ready for android. Can you tell me how you debugged your code? I've been looking for a good way to do it, but the only method I know is just to write to the log. Did you find any other way to catch bugs on android?