Trouble with Android

Tue Apr 16 21:38:32 EDT 2013

Just downloaded the Android SDK linked from the lesson at http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4069/l/27389-how-do-i-become-an-android-developer-on-a-mac and built a simple test stack with one button. Test in Android and nothing but a black screen. This is a new stack with one card and no scripts whatsoever.

Livecode 5.5.4 and Android SDK Platform Android 2.2, API 8, revision 3

on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3

Tom

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On Mar 16, 2013, at 1:13 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 3/15/13 3:08 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>> Hmm... attempting to do some very simple trial stacks on Android, after
>> not having done any for a long time - having fought my way through a few
>> strangeness with regards to expired debug certificates and the like, I
>> now find that all my stacks - built with 5.5.3 or above - simply display
>> black, on two different test devices.
>> 
>> An older version of one of the stacks, an APK I happen to have lying
>> around my hard drive that was built about 14 months ago, can be
>> re-installed and works fine.
> 
> As mentioned, using acceleratedRendering on an Android device running OS 2.2 or earlier will launch to a black screen if you use the defaults. If you set the compositorType to "software" it works, but I got some unwanted artifacts when I did that. As far as I know it hasn't been fixed yet, so I had to require Android 2.3 or higher.
> 
> Another thing is incompatibility with 4.1 Jelly Bean. I had to rebuild with 5.5.4 to fix that. Earlier versions of LiveCode apps opened to a black screen on Jelly Bean.
> 
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