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Enigma wrote:At the momment the top game on the play store is portrait orientation. Plus it means people won't have to recomplie the app every time you make a change.

There is no limitation to landscape orientation, it is a very simple change in the AndroidManifest.xml. It even does not need a recompilation, it is only a re-packaging which is being done automatically by ant or Eclipse when deploying the game onto the device.

I really don't see why one would want to burden oneself with designing UIs for two layouts. With the different screens it is already enough work getting one right I would assume.

Enigma wrote:At the momment the top game on the play store is portrait orientation. Plus it means people won't have to recomplie the app every time you make a change.

While testing on a device using local storage for your game.love is fine, I would like to point out that when you distribute, you will have to run `ant debug` (building the apk) yourself anyway.

If you're planning on deploying to Android, you're going to have to learn how to build the apk yourself anyway.

fysx wrote:I really don't see why one would want to burden oneself with designing UIs for two layouts. With the different screens it is already enough work getting one right I would assume.

To add to that, unless you're deploying to one device (say the OUYA) then you're going to have to deal with resolution independence anyway. Android devices, while they run the same OS have a wide variety of resolutions. With resolution independence comes the requirement of a dynamic UI system. You can have one UI, but just have it display differently depending on the res.

@fysx I will mention though, it might be a nice feature to have a way to turn the orientation via Lua in Love, but I wouldn't consider this a high priority considering there are already three orientation modes (portrait, landscape and auto).

josefnpat wrote: @fysx I will mention though, it might be a nice feature to have a way to turn the orientation via Lua in Love, but I wouldn't consider this a high priority considering there are already three orientation modes (portrait, landscape and auto).

It's very easy to implement in the love.mobile module. Maybe I can do that! Maybe.... I haven't had much free time lately.

I didn't try this yet but if it works like people are saying, I'm going to give you a medal.

Just published alpha9.

The major advancement here is that packaged games do not waste memory in the internal storage. Previously game.love was stored in the .apk and in internal storage which could result in huge memory usage for large games. Now the file in the .apk is directly loaded.

Here's the full changelog:
- Packaged games do not get duplicated for loading, instead are loaded from memory (!!!)
- Using inofficial physfs 2.1
- Removed love.android.getDisplayMetrics(), instead use love.window.getPixelScale()
- Properly link LGPL libraries dynamically. Everything else is linked statically
- Added an icon (design by @josefnpat)
- Fixed crash on startup on OUYA (and possibly other devices)

You can get it from here: https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... alpha9.apk

Version 9 doesn't work on my Samsung S4 mini, it says "Unfortunately LÖVE for Android has stopped".

jjmafiae wrote:Version 8 doesn't work on my Samsung S4 mini, it says "Unfortunately LÖVE for Android has stopped".

Same here, version 9 doesn't work.

Davidobot wrote:

jjmafiae wrote:Version 8 doesn't work on my Samsung S4 mini, it says "Unfortunately LÖVE for Android has stopped".

Same here, version 9 doesn't work.

That might be this issue.

Also, can someone please build a version of this that has portrait orientation? Or would someone be kind enough to help to package my game as a .apk?

Davidobot wrote:Also, can someone please build a version of this that has portrait orientation? Or would someone be kind enough to help to package my game as a .apk?

What release would you like? Alpha9?

If you prefer, check out the documentation I wrote and try it yourself!