Philipp Wiesemann
I attached a patch for an incomplete implementation of the messagebox parts.
It was not tested on lots of devices yet and features a very fragile workaround to block the calling SDL thread while the dialog is handled on Android's UI thread. Although it works for testmessage.c I assume there are lot of situations were it may fail (standby, device rotation and other changes). Also not all flags and colors are implemented.
On the other hand most uses of the messagebox are to show an error on start and fragility (or working at all) may not matter there.
Thanks to Denis Bernard!
Also, changed the Android manifest so the app doesn't quit with orientation
changes, and made testgles.c exit properly on Android.
This bumps the build SDK level to 12 (up from 10). Runtime requirements remain
the same (at API level < 12 joystick support is disabled).
Also enables building SDL for armv7 and x86.
On Android available touch devices are now added with video initialization (like
the keyboard). This fixes SDL_GetNumTouchDevices() returning 0 before any touch
events happened although there is a touch screen available. The adding of touch
devices after a touch event was received is still active to allow connecting
devices later (if this is possible) and to provide a fallback if the new init
did not work somehow. For the implementation JNI was used and API level 9 is
required. There seems to be nothing in the Android NDK's input header (input.h)
to implement everything on C side without communication with Java side.
Alexey Petruchik
Although SDL_android.h is not intended to be included by client code sometimes it needed. For example you need JNIEnv pointer to make JNI calls to modified SDLActivity.java (video playback, facebook integration, in-apps). It seems a bit weird to write:
extern "C" {
#include "SDL_android.h"
}
in my AndroidJNI.cpp file.
C++ is a bit of a minefield on Android. Much functionality still doesn't work, and Android can't decide on which C++ standard library to use, so it provides 3 different ones, all of which are incompatible with each other. (It looks like clang is coming too which will add a new compiler and a 4th standard library.)
As middleware, SDL might be distributed as a binary and intermixed with other projects already using C++. If C++ is intermixed in a bad way, bad things will happen. Removing dependencies on C++ will avoid this problem and downstream users won't have to worry/care.
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.
