mobile dev confusion

[Terry Judd]

Worth trying again I reckon - the Android Virtual Device Manager in Android Studio plays very nicely with LC now.

Terry...

On 29/12/19, 10:27 am, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    I remember Panos mentioning that one of the primary reasons for including 
    X86 was so we could use the faster emulator. I know I stopped using the 
    emulator years ago because it was too slow to be useful.
    
    --
    Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
    On December 28, 2019 4:05:11 PM JJS via use-livecode 
    <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    
    > So in fact the only great thing now for x86 and x86-64 is the high speed
    > emulator.
    >
    > Makes it strange right, there are almost no x86 or x86-64 real phones,
    > but in Android Studio you see as of Android 8 and up only x86 system
    > images and no ARM at all.
    >
    >
    > I don't get it, where is the logic behind this.
    >
    >
    >
    > Op 28-12-2019 om 20:48 schreef J. Landman Gay via use-livecode:
    >> Actually after some research, I've decided not to bother with x86
    >> builds. There are only one or two models that support it and those are
    >> very old. The current user base is a fraction of one percent according
    >> to some charts. Support for x86 chips on mobile devices apparently was
    >> dropped some years ago.
    >>
    >> One stackOverflow comment implied that x86 would be useful if we
    >> wanted to support Chromebooks, but those machines work well with
    >> 32-bit Android apps and LC doesn't officially support Chromebooks anyway.
    >>
    >> If anyone has other info, hopefully they'll chime in here.
    >>
    >> --
    >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
    >> On December 28, 2019 12:14:29 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode
    >> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>> I'm so relieved. Thank you.
    >>>
    >>> It didn't make sense to me, but I saw no explanation about that part
    >>> of it
    >>> anywhere.
    >>>
    >>> Full speed ahead. (ish)
    >>>
    >>> I am struggling a bit getting it to work in the emulator.... it seems
    >>> like
    >>> I can only do ARM architecture on V7 or below in the emulator. And using
    >>> an X86 emulator gives me the "NO_MATCHING_ABM" error when I hit test.
    >>>
    >>> But at least there are no permanent obstacles.
    >>>
    >>> :) Thanks again.
    >>>
    >>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
    >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> LC uses the SDK primarily for its build tools, which allow the IDE to
    >>>> create standalones for Android. The SDK does not affect the versions of
    >>>> Android your app will require. For years we built apks using SDK 6, and
    >>>> apps built using those tools still run on Android 10 today.
    >>>>
    >>>> A while back the SDK 6 build tools no longer worked with the current
    >>>> version of LC and we had to update to SDK 8 for compatibility. I am
    >>>> building apks with that SDK that run on all versions of Android from
    >>>> 4.x
    >>>> on
    >>>> up to 10.
    >>>>
    >>>> The Android versions you want to support are set in standalone
    >>>> settings.
    >>>> --
    >>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
    >>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
    >>>> On December 27, 2019 8:37:23 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode
    >>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> > Hi folks, I'm following this tutorial
    >>>> >
    >>>> >
    >>>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/985962-livecode-and-android-studio
    >>>> >
    >>>> > and i've installed android 8.0 SDK as specified ....
    >>>> >
    >>>> > the distribution chart says that only 6% of devices have this
    >>>> version of
    >>>> > android.
    >>>> >
    >>>> > Does this mean only 6% of devices will be able to correctly
    >>>> install my
    >>>> > application?
    >>>> >
    >>>> > ?????????????
    >>>> >
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