Added information on how to customize your application name and icon.
Added information on using STL with an Android application
Increased the minimum API level to 10, because that's the lowest API
that currently has an emulator image for testing.
Andrey Isakov 2012-10-03 08:30:25 PDT
I've found out in the process of porting one OS project to Android/SDL2 that
there is no support for TextInput events/APIs on Android.
So I implemented some kind of initial support of that feature, and at the very
least it seems to work fine with latin chars input with soft and hardware
keyboards on my Moto Milestone2. I've also tried playing around with more
complex IMEs, like japanese, logging the process and it seemed to work too. I'm
not sure since the app itself I am working on does not have support for
non-latin input.
The main point of the patch is to place a fake input view in the region
specified by SDL_SetTextInputRect and create a custom InputConnection for it.
The reason to make it a separate view is to support Android's pan&scan on input
feature properly. For details please refer to
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html
Even though the manual states that SetTextInputRect is used to determine the
IME variants position, I thought this would be a proper use for this too.
morgan.devel@gmail.com 2012-01-13 00:32:23 PST
The android version of SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate doesn't check if there is
actually new data and always generate the SDL_JOYAXISMOTION event.
Consequently, doing a while(SDL_PollEvent()) will result in an endless loop.
The attached patch fix this issue.
It also scale the incoming values properly in the Sint16 range. The scale from
[-gravity;+gravity] is done directly in the java part because one may want to
map the sensor values with a non-linear method for example.
Gabriel Jacobo 2011-12-23 12:55:11 PST
The attached files provide some improvement over the current handling of
pause/resume in Android.
- I disabled the exit(status) instruction in SDL_main as that makes the entire
app instead of the SDL thread exit (while not needed for pause/resume it is
needed for Live Wallpapers, an SDLActivity for which I'll upload in a separate
bug).
- Added nativePause and nativeResume which basically just mark the window as
visible/hidden, something that the end user needs to take into consideration
(ideally pausing the event loop).
Also, this arrangement creates a new GL context when needed, which at least in
my test system is every time you go away from the app and come back to it. So,
this means that the textures need to be generated again after resuming (a
problem the end user didn't have before because the app exited completely when
it should've been pausing). I'd like to know if there's a standard way of
letting the user know that the GL context has changed and that he needs to
refresh his textures, or if this is out of the scope of the library and each
user handles it in their own way (I don't know how/if this same thing is
handled in the iPhone backend, but it would be wise to try to imitate that).
Gabriel Jacobo 2011-12-23 12:57:10 PST
Also, in the SDLActivity the EGL handling code is moved up to the Activity from
the Surface code, as I think it is possible (in theory) that the surface is
destroyed temporarily while the context remains alive (though in practice in my
test system this is not the case)
* Formalized the interface with Java methods in SDL_android.h
* We don't need the feature system, at least right now
* Fixed waiting for the SDLMain thread
