State of the attempt to natively port love to android

[Moe]

I have not yet made any tests with that one. There are only two possibilities: Store the data in the apps folder or on SD-card (or any other external device). All other storage places will require a rooted device. Besides that we should be able to support the full Love-filesystem-API.

[T-Bone]

I have not yet made any tests with that one. There are only two possibilities: Store the data in the apps folder or on SD-card (or any other external device). All other storage places will require a rooted device. Besides that we should be able to support the full Love-filesystem-API.

I think that what you call the "apps folder" is probably the best option. I believe this is what's called an app's "data" by Android, and will be removed if you remove the app, which is preferable, SD-card also has problems with phones that don't have them (although some of them have data partitions called "/sdcard" anyway). Also, if you store it in the app data, it will probably be stored on the SD card anyway with Android's native App2SD functionality which all games should use.

[T-Bone]

There hasn't been much activity here on the forums lately. Please just tell me the project isn't dead I've got pretty far into making what I seriously think is a great game for Android that I'd love to be able to test on an actual device and sell some day

[miko]

There hasn't been much activity here on the forums lately. Please just tell me the project isn't dead I've got pretty far into making what I seriously think is a great game for Android that I'd love to be able to test on an actual device and sell some day

And I have almost bought an android-based tablet Just waiting to see love2d working on android.

[hagish]

No it is not dead. Due to a job change I didn't have much time the last 2 month but now things settled and it is time to continue with this project.

[T-Bone]

No it is not dead. Due to a job change I didn't have much time the last 2 month but now things settled and it is time to continue with this project.

Great

[Moe]

There hasn't been much activity here on the forums lately. Please just tell me the project isn't dead I've got pretty far into making what I seriously think is a great game for Android that I'd love to be able to test on an actual device and sell some day

So take the native port, test your game, and make bug reports.
Coincidental, I will also start a new job soon, and that was a time killer, too. Hopefully I will have more time for the port in the next weeks, too.

[T-Bone]

There hasn't been much activity here on the forums lately. Please just tell me the project isn't dead I've got pretty far into making what I seriously think is a great game for Android that I'd love to be able to test on an actual device and sell some day

So take the native port, test your game, and make bug reports.
Coincidental, I will also start a new job soon, and that was a time killer, too. Hopefully I will have more time for the port in the next weeks, too.

I didn't know the native port was ready enough for that. I will totally do! Are there any instructions for how to do that? I know I need Eclipse with the Android SDK as well as love-android's source code, but how do I do the import? What should I change to get it to run my game?

EDIT: I just went ahead and tried to import it into Eclipse. I manage to install it in the emulator, but I doubt it worked bacause the emulator claims the entire app love-native-android is 24,00 KB large, and crashes instantly if you try to run it. I get the following error message:

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03-09 11:52:00.417: D/dalvikvm(780): Not late-enabling CheckJNI (already on)
03-09 11:52:00.557: I/dalvikvm(780): Turning on JNI app bug workarounds for target SDK version 7...
03-09 11:52:01.377: D/libEGL(780): Emulator without GPU support detected. Fallback to software renderer.
03-09 11:52:01.377: D/libEGL(780): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLES_android.so
03-09 11:52:01.427: D/gralloc_goldfish(780): Emulator without GPU emulation detected.
03-09 11:52:01.457: I/System.out(780): java: init
03-09 11:52:01.457: W/dalvikvm(780): Exception Ljava/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError; thrown while initializing Lnet/schattenkind/nativelove/LoveJNI;
03-09 11:52:01.467: W/dalvikvm(780): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x409c01f8)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 93
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at net.schattenkind.nativelove.LoveRenderView$1.onSurfaceChanged(LoveRenderView.java:25)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1455)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1216)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load ogg: findLibrary returned null
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:365)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:535)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	at net.schattenkind.nativelove.LoveJNI.<clinit>(LoveJNI.java:7)
03-09 11:52:01.467: E/AndroidRuntime(780): 	... 3 more
03-09 11:52:02.567: I/dalvikvm(780): Rejecting re-init on previously-failed class Lnet/schattenkind/nativelove/LoveJNI; v=0x0
03-09 11:52:16.867: D/libEGL(800): Emulator without GPU support detected. Fallback to software renderer.
03-09 11:52:16.877: D/libEGL(800): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLES_android.so
03-09 11:52:16.897: D/gralloc_goldfish(800): Emulator without GPU emulation detected.
03-09 11:52:16.917: I/System.out(800): java: init
03-09 11:52:16.917: W/dalvikvm(800): Exception Ljava/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError; thrown while initializing Lnet/schattenkind/nativelove/LoveJNI;
03-09 11:52:16.917: W/dalvikvm(800): threadid=11: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x409c01f8)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 96
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at net.schattenkind.nativelove.LoveRenderView$1.onSurfaceChanged(LoveRenderView.java:25)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1455)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1216)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load ogg: findLibrary returned null
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:365)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:535)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	at net.schattenkind.nativelove.LoveJNI.<clinit>(LoveJNI.java:7)
03-09 11:52:16.917: E/AndroidRuntime(800): 	... 3 more

[Moe]

The SDK is not enough, you will also need the NDK. So get it and install it (your error message complains, that a library is missing - and it is only compiled if the NDK is available).
But before you can compile, you have to change the game file. Open jni/love.cpp and search for

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	argv[1] = new char[strlen("/mnt/sdcard/love/no.love")+1];
	strcpy(argv[1], "/mnt/sdcard/love/no.love");

Change the file name and path to the location of your file.
Open "Project"->"Properties"->"Builders", select "ndk-build" and click "Edit...". Change the path at "Location:" to the place of the NDK's script "ndk-build". Save the settings and launch the application. It might take a while, the NDK will compile a large set of libraries

If you have a real Android device somewhere around, you should use it. It is much more fun than the emulator

[T-Bone]

The SDK is not enough, you will also need the NDK. So get it and install it (your error message complains, that a library is missing - and it is only compiled if the NDK is available).
But before you can compile, you have to change the game file. Open jni/love.cpp and search for

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	argv[1] = new char[strlen("/mnt/sdcard/love/no.love")+1];
	strcpy(argv[1], "/mnt/sdcard/love/no.love");

Change the file name and path to the location of your file.
Open "Project"->"Properties"->"Builders", select "ndk-build" and click "Edit...". Change the path at "Location:" to the place of the NDK's script "ndk-build". Save the settings and launch the application. It might take a while, the NDK will compile a large set of libraries

If you have a real Android device somewhere around, you should use it. It is much more fun than the emulator

Thanks a lot, will try first thing tomorrow. I will try both in emulator and on my good ol' HTC Desire.

Just wondering, is it possible to run the .love-file from within the actual app or does it have to be on the sd-card?

This is awesome Love your work guys!