Geoff
IMHO your shortest path will be
a) forget about fully responsive, in terms of trying to emulate html5 web
design. IMHO this whole "must be responsive" is a huge sidetrack from content
development…someone spends days and days and ends up with a few pix and a
little bit of text and "it's so cool… yeah.. it shrinks and expand so
beautifully!" but nothing of substance. You will do better focusing on the
game, content and game play UX instead of wasting time dealing with "on
resize…"
b) most games we are seeing on mobile are fixed to one orientation. This way
you can "go crazy" with your design and not worry about "what happens if the
user turns their phone sideways (or upright)" .e.g. even apple does not
respond to orientation change in it settings module. Monument Valley (awesomely
beautiful) is portrait only… period. other games are landscape only. period.
c) once you accept the above, they you are good to go with
on preopenstack
wait 200 milliseconds with messages
set the fullscreenmode of this stack to "showAll"
end preopenstack
and your stack *will* be responsive for the screen size, assuming you
a) work in the "safe zone"
b) are willing to accept some letter boxing.
c) or just use a large background and then on some screens all your significant
content will be constrained to the central horizontal safe zone (on landscape)
or vertical (on portrait) but still look lovely.
depending on the kinds of controls and overall look you may find one of these
others works for you
set the fullscreenmode of stack to
{empty|"exactFit"|"letterbox"|"noBorder"|"noScale"|"showAll"}
Each of these has its own caveats, I'm most familiar with showAll, but I think
Randy is using exactFit…
I hope others jump in here to discuss the differences/options..
But the above is, I think the fastest way to get to where you want to be
without messing with responsive geometry.
Of course I can hear some who will jump in and say "it's not that hard to roll
your own." True, but depends on how many hours you want to put in on "resize
stack" when that same mental re-estate could be going to building the game
play? If you lock into portrait (or landscape), set a background image/grc to
1024 X 1024 and center that… but make your stack 736 X 414 (or 414 X 736)
you and use fullscreenMode ShowAll, you can be deploying successfully to pretty
much any device in 30 minutes…
in the end there's no way around iterations, test, deploy on device(s) and try
again.
just two mangos from Hawaii…
On 12/15/17, 11:00 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Geoff Canyon via
use-livecode" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
Is there a ready-made shell that people prefer that I should copy the
elements of the app into? Or is there a mobile-specific library that I
should be copying into the app?
What do people prefer to use at this point?
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