Android woes

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Oct 10 21:16:47 EDT 2014


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 10/10/2014, 5:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Many moons ago I had a good setup with building on Android, but I've
>> since moved my work to new computers, and can no longer set up a working
>> install for building on Android.
>>
>> Two main problems:
>>
>> 1. All versions prior to v7:  LiveCode will not accept the Android SDK
>> folder I select, even though selecting the same SDK folder with v7 works
>> fine.
>>
>> 2. Building with v7 (since that's the only version that accepts my SDK
>> folder), it builds the app without complaint but when I run it in the
>> emulator it stars briefly to a black screen and then immediately quits.
>>   Simple app - no code, just one button to see if I can get it to run.
>>   Apparently this exit is happening before script interpretation comes
>> into play, as I've added a preOpenStack handler that puts up an answer
>> dialog, and that doesn't show either.
>>
>> I have the same results with OS X and Ubuntu.
>>
>> Anyone else seen these issues?
>
> I'm not sure about the v7 launch problem, but the workaround v6 not
> recognizing the SDK is here:
>
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12719>

Thanksm Jacque.  LC 6.7 now accepts my Android SDK folder, so I can 
build with that version now (though oddly that bug report is from July, 
and the issue is still outstanding, several builds later).

But my one-card-no-code app still won't stay up.  With 6.7 at least the 
answer dialog I have coming from a preOpenStack handler shows, but the 
app itself is a black screen that quits as soon as it starts to render.

I've tried settings for Android 2.2, and per a note from you in the 
forums also tried 2.3.3, even tried changing accelleratedRendering to 
true and to false, and the compositor to "software", all to no avail.

I know it's possible because others are doing this every day; there must 
be one step I'm missing from the process....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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