love2d.love-android/README.md

Android Port of LÖVE, the awesome 2D game engine LÖVE (http://love2d.org) Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Martin Felis [email protected]

Instructions:

For detailed instructions please refer to the wiki at https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love-android-sdl2/wiki/Home.

Quick Start:

Install the Android NDK and the Android SDK with SDK API 12 and run

ndk-build

and after that

ant debug

in the root folder of this project or load the project using Eclipse and compile/run it using Eclipse.

This should give you a .apk file in the bin/ subdirectory that you can then install on your phone.

Bugs:

Bugs and feature requests should be reported to the issue tracker at https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love-android-sdl2/issues?status=new&status=open.

Changelog:

0.9.1b:

• added love.system.vibrate(seconds)
• print statements are now redirected to logcat. Output is prefixed with "[LOVE] "
• removed DevIL, libpng, libjpeg, libmng, and libtiff
• pngs are loaded using lodepng and jpegs using libturbo-jpeg
• repeatedly fixed a bug which caused Release builds to crash
• update to latest mobile-common branch

0.9.1a:

• using latest SDL_androidgl.c (fixes some random performance issues)
• using latest love-android @ changeset 8659be0e75 (adds support for compressed textures)

0.9.1:

• uses 0.9.1 API
• fixed crash on Moto G (and possibly other devices). This was a nasty bug that would just show a blue screen without an error message. The bug was resolved using the help of headchant
• fixed loading of jpegs (it probably hasn't worked up to now)
• fixed issues with looping over active touches. This fix was sponsored by slime!

beta2:

• fixed bug with canvases
• fixed writing of files when no identity in conf.lua was set
• added file association (somewhat experimental)

beta1:

• fixed nasty crash on startup bug
• fixed love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems()

alpha9:

• 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)

alpha8:

• Exposing DisplayMetrics in love.android.getDisplayMetrics())
• Accelerometer is now available as a joystick
• enabled armv6 compilation (larger files, better compatibility with Tegra2 devices)
• updated to latest mobile-common branch (including (very) basic multi-touch gesture tracking)
• updated OpenAL from 1.13 to 1.15.1
• updated jpeg library from 8c to 9a
• updated lcms from 2.2 to 2.5
• updated libogg from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
• updated libvorbis from 1.3.2 to 1.3.4
• updated mpg123 from 1.13.4 to 1.17.0

alpha7:

• love.system.getOS() now returns "Android"
• hardware search key is reported as "search"
• switched to mobile-common branch
• using new love.touch module (love.touchpressed(id,x,y,p), love.touchmoved(id,x,y,p), love.touchmoved(id,x,y,p))
• added LOVE_ANDROID define

License:

This project contains code from multiple projects using various licenses. Please look into the folders of jni// for the respective licenses.

As for the other code and build system files, these are published under the zlib license (same as LÖVE).