Re: [android-developers] Android Games SDK?

2013-03-21 Thread Ecthelion
Taylor mentioned that he is programming in Java. The SDK you mentioned is using C++ and Lua AFAIK and therefore does IMO not really fit. Cheers Am Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 23:27:20 UTC+1 schrieb Nathan: > > A member of this forum works on > > http://www.batterytechsdk.com/ > > Haven't used it y

[android-developers] Re: how to get reference to GLSurfaceView's rendering thread?

2012-08-04 Thread Ecthelion
Can you briefly explain why join() is supposed to be so bad to best almost never use it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this grou

[android-developers] surfaceChanged reporting incorrect sizes (since latest SDK r14?)

2011-10-22 Thread Ecthelion
Hi, in my game I am checking the size of the SurfaceView in the surfaceChanged method. Now with the latest SDK for Android 4.0 the emulator reports incorrect size values, e.g. it reports 1280 x 720 pixels for a device with HVGA screen, where it should list 480x320 pixels, and 1425 x 720 pixels for

[android-developers] Re: Android Market user ratings disappeared on July 29, 2011

2011-08-01 Thread Ecthelion
Yes and no. In the developer console the ratings look fine now. In the market app the wrong numbers still appear. But I hope that, with only a short delay, these number will also be fine. On 1 Aug., 19:05, pad wrote: > Seems to be fixed! > > On 1 Ago, 13:31, kodlan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Damn,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market news

2011-07-30 Thread Ecthelion
Yes, I am having the same issue. But now changed ratings affected by this bug are also visible on the market :-(. On 30 Jul., 06:51, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: > This is new: woke up to find that the number of ratings is a few hundred > less > than the day before. And that's across all apps. I've rep

[android-developers] Re: Role of the Compatibility Library?

2011-07-19 Thread Ecthelion
+1 for ActionBar support in the compat library. ActionBarSherlock is certainly nice, but for those who - like me - don't use Eclipse it is not so good that it requires using a library project instead of a jar library. On 16 Jul., 12:34, b0b wrote: > I would really like to see ActionBar support ad

[android-developers] Re: Drawing scaled bitmaps on a SurfaceView -- no antialiasing

2011-05-16 Thread Ecthelion
Did you set the "filter" parameter to true when invoking createScaledBitmap? AFAIK it does the same as setting Paint.FILTER_BITMAP_FLAG when otherwise painting bitmaps. This should enable what you call antialiasing when scaling down the bitmaps. Hope this helps On 15 Mai, 11:05, FReDD --- wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Big problems with bitmaps, memory management, Log.d

2011-01-18 Thread Ecthelion
That inBitmap option sounds great. Thanks for that :-). On 17 Jan., 21:21, Romain Guy wrote: > Quick update: > > Android 3.0 will give you the ability to load mutable bitmaps from > BitmapFactory. The API relies on BitmapFactory.Options, and a new field call > "inMutable." While I'm at it, know t

[android-developers] Re: Big problems with bitmaps, memory management, Log.d

2011-01-18 Thread Ecthelion
On 17 Jan., 21:21, Romain Guy wrote: > Quick update: > > Android 3.0 will give you the ability to load mutable bitmaps from > BitmapFactory. The API relies on BitmapFactory.Options, and a new field call > "inMutable." While I'm at it, know that we've added another API to > BitmapFactory.Options

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-10 Thread Ecthelion
On 9 Dez., 14:20, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Ecthelion wrote: > > Brilliant. But that essentially means that I cannot be 100% sure that > > my changes would not cause undesired side effects. > > You can't be 100% sure of anything with a third

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-09 Thread Ecthelion
On 8 Dez., 20:52, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Ecthelion wrote: > > But if I should find one of these resource names > > thereby, how will I know whether the code inside the library relies on > > the old string format or whether it works fine with t

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-08 Thread Ecthelion
On 8 Dez., 15:14, Mark Murphy wrote: > > Sure you can. It will be no different than if they accessed the string > via R.string.whatever. > Yes. And how would you know how the jar library is processing the string if the code lies (obfuscated btw.) inside the library? I might grep the library for a

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-08 Thread Ecthelion
On 7 Dez., 16:39, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ecthelion wrote: > > Yes, if the library project includes all the sources. But in this case > > part of the foreign code is inside a jar file. > > Resources cannot be in a JAR file. Yes, but I never sa

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-07 Thread Ecthelion
Yes, if the library project includes all the sources. But in this case part of the foreign code is inside a jar file. And can I really be sure that the string is not used somewhere inside this library (e.g. via getResources().getIdentifier(...)) in a way that breaks once I modify the resource? In a

[android-developers] Re: SDK 2.3: Get "Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format" error

2010-12-07 Thread Ecthelion
I agree with Bob that an error is a bit over the top. E.g. I include software from another company as a library project in one of my apps. This foreign software uses the old formatting using %s %s inside a few strings, which is now reported as an error. Now I can neither change the string, because

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.2 SDK emulator and JIT?

2010-05-23 Thread Ecthelion
ting an ARMv5TE CPU with only soft-floating > point, which means that the JIT is not going to > accelerate FP operations there (unlike on a Nexus One where it will use the > hardware FPU). > > Hope this helps > > > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Ecthelion wrote: >

[android-developers] Android 2.2 SDK emulator and JIT?

2010-05-23 Thread Ecthelion
Hi, after downloading the new Android 2.2 SDK I tested some of my more CPU- intensive code with the integrated emulator, hoping to see some of the promised performance improvements also in the emulator. But to my disappointment the apps run just as fast/slow as with Android 2.1. Did I miss somethi

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL and the use of ByteBuffers

2010-02-24 Thread Ecthelion
Hi, On 24 Feb., 05:25, Jonathan wrote: > I have an array in memory that represents the screen.  I then call > put() once to put that into the ByteBuffer that gets pased to OpenGL. If you still want to use a ByteBuffer you could try ByteBuffer.wrap(myByteArray) instead of a series of ByteBuffer.c

[android-developers] Re: Performance issue: Dalvik VM is >20x slower than most modern Java VMs

2010-01-12 Thread Ecthelion
The Android 2.1 SDK is out, but - at least from a first test on the emulator that comes with the SDK - it does not look like the Dalvik JIT has been activated :-(. On 7 Jan., 17:55, Biosopher wrote: > The Dalvik JIT appears to result in a 1.7x improvement when run on an > armv7. > > Here's the po

[android-developers] Re: Performance issue: Dalvik VM is >20x slower than most modern Java VMs

2010-01-06 Thread Ecthelion
Do you have any references for the statement below? And does "next sdk release" refer to the Android 2.1 SDK? Thanks On 6 Jan., 19:49, "Fred Grott(Android Expert, http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com)" wrote: > the next sdk release is suppose to have a Dalvik JIT i nit doubling > speed/performance..

[android-developers] Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

2009-12-11 Thread Ecthelion
Hi Matt, you could try explicitly freeing the resources your bitmaps use by invoking Bitmap.recycle(). The description of this method reads "Free up the memory associated with this bitmap's pixels, and mark the bitmap as "dead", meaning it will throw an exception if getPixels() or setPixels() is

[android-developers] Re: adb shell am profile

2009-05-25 Thread Ecthelion
Perhaps a stupid question, what tools do I use to interpret the resulting trace file. After a successful run of adb am profile start /sdcard/profile I now have a file /sdcard/profile.trace on my emulator. But that file is not really human readable, so that there should be some kind of tool to int

[android-developers] Users get message that application is not properly signed when updating - anyone had the same issue?

2009-05-09 Thread Ecthelion
I have an application where users that already have an old version installed tell me that they get a message saying the application package was not signed properly. A fresh installation does work without problems, so that I ask those who contact me to remove the old version and do a fresh install.

[android-developers] Users get message that application is not properly signed when updating - anyone had the same issue?

2009-05-09 Thread Ecthelion
I have an application where users that already have an old version installed tell me that they get a message saying the application package was not signed properly. A fresh installation does work without problems, so that I ask those who contact me to remove the old version and do a fresh install.

[android-developers] Re: Unused java hardware acceleration on the G1 (was Re: Android game developers desperately need optimised game engine example code ...)

2009-04-01 Thread Ecthelion
This I cannot confirm. The C64 emulator Mobile C64 runs with AFAIK 10-15% of the original C64 speed on a G1 with its 528 MHz CPU. On my Samsung SGH-i600, with a 624 MHz CPU, the J2ME variant ran at close to 100% of the original C64 speed. This is a factor of 6-10 faster although the device's CPU i

[android-developers] Re: [android-discuss] Unused java hardware acceleration on the G1 (was Re: Android game developers desperately need optimised game engine example code ...)

2009-04-01 Thread Ecthelion
Google is not forced by Sun in any way. It's just that Sun requests license fees for their JVM and that does not fit with Android being planned by Google as a platform where the manufacturers have no license fees to pay for. On Mar 31, 8:42 pm, Stoyan Damov wrote: > If Google were not forced by

[android-developers] Re: What's slow on Android?

2009-01-13 Thread Ecthelion
I'd like to see: 1. JIT, or something else to speed up the applications in general. 2. Implement javax.sound.sampled classes (not really related to performance). On Jan 12, 11:21 pm, Tomei Ningen wrote: > Hello Android developers, > > We are building an Android-based device, and would like to k