Philipp Wiesemann
SDL_RWFromFile() sets an error to be queried with SDL_GetError() on Android although a valid SDL_RWops pointer is returned.
This happens if the fallback implemented in SDL_android.cpp is used to load compressed assets (see README.android in section "Loading assets") and results in a message like "java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed". I think this is confusing and not needed because the loading works as expected.
I attached a patch which changes SDL_android.cpp to not set an error if compressed assets are loaded. In this case also no Exception is queried and no additional string are created.
This lets us change things like this...
if (Failed) {
SDL_SetError("We failed");
return -1;
}
...into this...
if (Failed) {
return SDL_SetError("We failed");
}
Fixes Bugzilla #1778.
Philipp Wiesemann 2012-10-06 07:19:57 PDT
SDL does not use values set with SDL_GL_SetAttribute on Android.
I attached a patch which adds this functionality and makes it possible to set
(for example) depth buffer size or anti-aliasing in the actual application
instead of modifying the Java source (which seems currently the only way).
The functions to show/hide/toggle the on-screen keyboard have been folded into the text input state.
Calling SDL_StartTextInput() will automatically show the on-screen keyboard if it's available.
Calling SDL_StopTextInput() will automatically hide the on-screen keyboard if it's available.
There is a new API function SDL_IsTextInputActive() which will return whether text input is currently active.
Text input is disabled by default, you must call SDL_StartTextInput() when you are ready to accept text input.
SDL_HasScreenKeyboardSupport() no longer needs to be passed a window.
The iPhone-specific on-screen keyboard functions have been removed.
Andrey Isakov 2012-10-03 08:30:25 PDT
I've found out in the process of porting one OS project to Android/SDL2 that
there is no support for TextInput events/APIs on Android.
So I implemented some kind of initial support of that feature, and at the very
least it seems to work fine with latin chars input with soft and hardware
keyboards on my Moto Milestone2. I've also tried playing around with more
complex IMEs, like japanese, logging the process and it seemed to work too. I'm
not sure since the app itself I am working on does not have support for
non-latin input.
The main point of the patch is to place a fake input view in the region
specified by SDL_SetTextInputRect and create a custom InputConnection for it.
The reason to make it a separate view is to support Android's pan&scan on input
feature properly. For details please refer to
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html
Even though the manual states that SetTextInputRect is used to determine the
IME variants position, I thought this would be a proper use for this too.
Philipp Wiesemann 2012-08-18 14:09:47 PDT
there is currently no way in SDL to interact with the system clipboard on
Android.
I attached a patch which tries to implement the three clipboard functions for
Android. It does not add the CLIPBOARDUPDATE event because this seems to
require Android API 11 or polling.
Philipp Wiesemann 2012-09-22 05:26:11 PDT
currently SDL (HG) does not implement the power management functionality of
SDL_GetPowerInfo() for Android.
I attached a patch which tries to implement this functionality (JNI only, API
5). It supports plugged state and battery percent return values but not
remaining seconds (which are not available on Android).
Here is my first rough attempt. "testrelative" feels right to me, but I'd like it someone else tested this, especially compared to Linux/OSX. The "Ctrl+r" to switch between relative and normal mouse movements seems to work flawlessly. With relative mouse movement, the only way to change focus is via keyboard. I'm not sure if that is the correct approach, but that would seem to be the most useful mode for games. Still, if my assumption is wrong, I can fix that no problem.
morgan.devel@gmail.com 2012-01-13 00:32:23 PST
The android version of SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate doesn't check if there is
actually new data and always generate the SDL_JOYAXISMOTION event.
Consequently, doing a while(SDL_PollEvent()) will result in an endless loop.
The attached patch fix this issue.
It also scale the incoming values properly in the Sint16 range. The scale from
[-gravity;+gravity] is done directly in the java part because one may want to
map the sensor values with a non-linear method for example.
Gabriel Jacobo 2011-12-23 12:55:11 PST
The attached files provide some improvement over the current handling of
pause/resume in Android.
- I disabled the exit(status) instruction in SDL_main as that makes the entire
app instead of the SDL thread exit (while not needed for pause/resume it is
needed for Live Wallpapers, an SDLActivity for which I'll upload in a separate
bug).
- Added nativePause and nativeResume which basically just mark the window as
visible/hidden, something that the end user needs to take into consideration
(ideally pausing the event loop).
Also, this arrangement creates a new GL context when needed, which at least in
my test system is every time you go away from the app and come back to it. So,
this means that the textures need to be generated again after resuming (a
problem the end user didn't have before because the app exited completely when
it should've been pausing). I'd like to know if there's a standard way of
letting the user know that the GL context has changed and that he needs to
refresh his textures, or if this is out of the scope of the library and each
user handles it in their own way (I don't know how/if this same thing is
handled in the iPhone backend, but it would be wise to try to imitate that).
Gabriel Jacobo 2011-12-23 12:57:10 PST
Also, in the SDLActivity the EGL handling code is moved up to the Activity from
the Surface code, as I think it is possible (in theory) that the surface is
destroyed temporarily while the context remains alive (though in practice in my
test system this is not the case)
