can start existing .love files from sd card (/mnt/sdcard/love/mygame.love) or downloads folder we should be able to add a file browser for loading eventually. The project could be used to make a ready to use launcher with a nice menu, or to make a standalone app without using sdcard by adding the files as resources (resource load might not be implemented yet as of 2011-11-06) We plan to make android specific functionality like additional input available by an api extension called love.phone, e.g. multi-touch, gravi and accelerometer sensors etc.
build environment used is eclipse with android sdk
adb logcat - to see Log.i("TAG","lala") in the terminal it is necessary to set ANDROID_HOME in the eclipse environment sdcard directory gets synced into the app directory on the phone's sdcard
for android-aware games : set t.android_native_screen = true in conf.lua to keep the native screen resolution, otherwise it'll rescale to the pc resolution to write generic code that detects android, check for love.phone being set, this will be set to an empty table for now, but might get android specific functions later
website : http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Love2d-android
- lots of api calls still need to be implemented
- ttf/truetype fonts won't be available anytime soon, help appreciated
- love.physics / box2d will probably not be available anytime soon, help appreciated
- love.threads has dummy stubs, so calling doesn't trigger errors, but the thread-code will never be executed, probably won't be implemented anytime soon, help appreciated
- 2011-11-04 luaj 2.0.2 : it seems i found a bug, testing Stealth2D(git) i get "invalid key to 'next'" when removing entries from table during pairs-iteration, sample snippet in core.lua for testing =( bugtracker entry already exists : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3430986&group_id=197627&atid=962226
- newproxy
- module
(if you want to use eclipse to compile, e.g. for standalone without sdcard access or to help out in this project)
in linux : adjust your ~/.bashrc to set ANDROID_HOME before launching eclipse export ANDROID_HOME=/home/ghoul/cavern/eclipse-workspace/android-sdk-linux when launching eclipse, launch it from bash
if you want to copy everything to the sd card again, delete ./tools/push_dir.db (a database file where it stores md5-sum)
NOTE : this guide looks a bit like what we did : http://linuxconfig.org/get-started-with-android-application-development-using-linux-and-android-sdk
remove all Log.i() and Log.e() calls and the import line (central function in LoveVM.java)
eclipse : open manifest editor : scroll down in manifest tab : Use the Export Wizard to export and sign an AP <---- USED
for android 2.1 : change project.properties : target=android-8 to target=android-7