Trouble with Android

[Thomas McGrath III]

Turns out there is a bug with the Simulator for 2.2 with Livecode. So using 2.3.3 the sample app works in that simulator.

Tom

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On Apr 16, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
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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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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