Hi Brahmanathaswami, Congratulations for the release.
Just a quick note for the landscape issue on Android, this is now fixed and it will be available in the next LC 9 release (9.0.1 RC-1): https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19465 Best, Panos -- On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It been many moons. I finally got a new version SivaSiva out the door to > iOS. > > I want to especially thank an unsung hero that is busy in Edinburgh > helping with support requests for business. > > Elanor Buchanan! Yay! > > She responsible is for the new "Listen" touch code for the new audio > screen. With icons for collections that go left and right and and up down. > Just like Spotify! I use a single json file to build that interface in > development and then to run it in the app. It scrolls *almost* as good an > regular web scrolling. The touch model of that screen is less on 50 lines > of code. > > Thanks also to Jacque for the code for the fetching an .ics file, > download it and display a Hindu Calender (Panchangam) and for Andre, who > did a little "experiment" in the Read Module, Hindu Dictionary, but develop > it as HTML5 that we should show in the browser widget and which > communicates with the local SQLlite database (i.e. it not using web > storage!). > > Given all the year of support from the community, I make the code open > source. > > If you want to check out the app. > > https://github.com/Himalayan-Academy/Siva-Siva-App/tree/nightly > > DISCLAIMER: Its a labyrinth, slowly working to refactor. But, original > decision I made works well: > Different modules are virtually independent, and only require the > developer minimal access global framework. This way I can hire out new > "pieces" (stacks) to people, and they code the way they want. This has pros > and cons. But allows agile development across a team, who doesn't need to > know the conventions of another developer. And believe me, people really > code is different styles! > > DOWNSIDE Side: > > This app would "huge" in gets Android, my target audience is gigantic in > India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.. BUT > > Android: still unresponsive to navigation buttons, move from one stack to > the next is like crap shoot, Seven on good day and snake eyes the next > moment, we have to "minutely" manage accelerateRendering otherwise "all > hell breaks loose" - landscape is not in parity to iOS. I have a landscape > stack, on iOS it switch to landscape. I have browser code that allows you > to rotate the phone.. works on iOS, but does not on android. 8.1.10 > mobileSetFullScreenRectForOrientations orientations[, rect]. Does not > work as expect (perhaps I am implementing wrongly, TBD) > > OPEN LETTER TO KEVIN: > > We are not in a situation as bad a Sean Cole. Non-profit. And not the same > situation. But I feel for him. If I were an developer depending on Android, > I would be dead the water, belly floating up .... I have been working TWO > YEARs to get an app that runs fine on iOS and breaks to Android. > > Of course, I would expect a lot "in the platform in Android, then do it > this way" but no such thing... I love the platform. You can "rule world" > with Livecode in just 200 lines. My God! It already does everything, > anything I can think of, I can get it done in 500 line of English readable > code (minus the motion graphics). We don’t need features. Please PLEEZE, > consolidate, put as much effort as you can afford in solving Android bugs. > > Brahmanathaswami > > Get the SivaSiva app, it's free: > https://www.himalayanacademy.com/apps/sivasiva > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
