Magnus Bjerke Vik
This causes issues when for instance using the joystick API to make an Android phone rotate an object by rotating the phone. When the absolute value of an axis reported by android is larger than earth gravity, SDL will overflow the Sint16 value used for joystick axes, causing sporadic movements when close to the gravity. Just holding the phone so that e.g. Y points directly upwards will make it unstable, and even more if you just tap the phone gently from below (increasing the acceleration).
More detailed: SDLActivity gets the accelerometer values in onSensorChanged and divides each axis by earth gravity. SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate takes each of the axis values, multiplies them by 32767.0 (largest Sint16), and the casts them to Sint16. From this you can see that any value from Android that exceeds earth gravity will overflow the joystick axis.
A fix is to clamp the values so that they won't overflow the Sint16.
It was simpler to just have the polling (actually: hotplug detection)
functions return immediately if it's not an appropriate time to poll.
Note that previously, if any joystick/controller was opened, we would poll
every time anyhow, skipping this function.
This bumps the build SDK level to 12 (up from 10). Runtime requirements remain
the same (at API level < 12 joystick support is disabled).
Also enables building SDL for armv7 and x86.
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.
I think this also fixes the bug relating to non-latin characters in filenames, since UNICODE wasn't defined in SDL_rwops.c
--HG--
rename : src/SDL_android.cpp => src/core/android/SDL_android.cpp
rename : src/SDL_android.h => src/core/android/SDL_android.h
