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    Tutorial on creating Gideros plugin for Android

    ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
    edited September 2012 in Step by step tutorials
    Hello all,
    here is a little tutorial on creating Android plugins for Gideros using new extended plugin system.
    Provided with plugin template for Android make file, plugin C++ code and Java class.
    http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Creating-plugins-for-Android-in-Gideros

    Now go and make those plugins you always wanted, just don't forget to share them ;)

    @alexzheng if you have problems, PM me I'll email you files and details. ;)

    Likes: Nascode, chipster123, atilim, alexzheng, Mells, gorkem, GregBUG, zaniar, fxone, yvz5

    http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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    • GregBUGGregBUG Guru
      thanks @ar2rsawseen you are a master as always!
      :)>-
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    • evsevs Member
      Great stuff!


      Cheers

      evs
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    • paul_k_clarkpaul_k_clark Member
      Thanks for that, most appreciated
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    • alexzhengalexzheng Guru
      @ar2rsawseen
      Thanks, I can access it in my workplace.
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    • BJGBJG Member
      Thanks for this great tutorial @ar2rsawseen. The Gideros website says that "A plugin consists of a C, C++, Obj-C or Java code compiled for the target platform." Why these particular languages? Is there something special about them...? And would the process of writing a function in C++ be very similar to this explanation for Java...?
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      edited February 2013
      @BJG Java and Objective-C are based on their platform. Basically Java is used if you want to wrap something from additional Android functionalities, and Objective-C is same for IOS plugins.

      But you could also create plugins in plain C or C++ as TNT Collision engine, that does something inside their own environment and has nothing to do with platform specifics. And this C or C++ code can be compiled as both Android and IOS plugins (additionally also as Desktop plugins).

      So basically:
      Java + C = to wrap something from Android SDK
      Objective-C + C = to wrap something from IOS SDK
      plain C to usually perform some huge calculations and can work on both platforms.
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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    • dominikusdpdominikusdp Member
      edited August 2014
      Hi Artur, nice tutorial, you can explain the complex thing in a simple way, I don't have any experience in Android / C++ development before :)

      I am following your example with my own simple library, but, i still get errors when building .so :

      error: undefined reference to 'luaL_register'
      error: undefined reference to 'lua_getfield'
      error: undefined reference to 'lua_pushcclosure'

      and so on as if i haven't included the lua/luasocket library.

      have been trying for hours and I still don't have any clue, please help me. any clue ?

      Thanks :)
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      edited August 2014
      Hello @dominikusdp
      for latest version, you need to link couple more binaries, not only libgideros.so

      including zlib also depends on the version, I think the latest one did not need to include it separately ;)

      ;)
      #
# Gideros Shared Library
# 
 
###
 
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
LOCAL_MODULE            := lua
LOCAL_SRC_FILES         := ../../libs/$(TARGET_ARCH_ABI)/liblua.so
 
include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)
 
###
 
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
LOCAL_MODULE            := gideros
LOCAL_SRC_FILES         := ../../libs/$(TARGET_ARCH_ABI)/libgideros.so
 
include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)
 
###
 
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
LOCAL_MODULE            := gvfs
LOCAL_SRC_FILES         := ../../libs/$(TARGET_ARCH_ABI)/libgvfs.so
 
include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)
 
###
 
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
 
LOCAL_MODULE            := zlib
LOCAL_SRC_FILES         := ../../libs/$(TARGET_ARCH_ABI)/libzlib.so
 
include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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    • dominikusdpdominikusdp Member
      edited August 2014
      @ar2rsawseen ah got it,

      there is no

      #
      # Lua
      #
      include $(CLEAR_VARS)

      LOCAL_MODULE := lua
      LOCAL_SRC_FILES := ../../libs/$(TARGET_ARCH_ABI)/liblua.so

      include $(PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY)

      In my Android.mk, no wonder it always miss reference to lua function, I am stupid didn't realize it earlier :|

      thanks Artur !

      note: it will be nice if you update your tutorial to the latest version, because it helps so much especially for beginner like me :)>-
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      Updated ;)
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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