Native UI

OZApps · July 2013

Do the GiderosLab experimental code require any particular version? I get the error message

Uploading finished.
userdata: 0x52f8e4c0
java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()
stack traceback:

and I tried with several versions but the same error message.

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

@OZApps for Android most probably not. I assume you are referring to Native UI/
If yes then it is really, really, REALLY an experiment and not yet expected to work correctly (but for some reason runs quite good on my old phone LG Optimus P500 Android 2.3)

We've spent this whole week designing new approach, from scratch, that would involve Native Bridges for both Android and IOS and UI libs on top of them and will post and update when something workable comes up.

About posting feedback, the well, there is a generic Gideros Labs thread:
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/3437/gideros-labs

And there should be created separate thread for each project, if there is one already, you will see a link in the Labs project's page to a Forum thread.
If there are no threads, you can create them (like this one) and I will then add it to the Labs page.

I will also be creating threads (if it does not exist already) when I have something announcable to tell about specific project

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

And you get this error for the provided example project?

OZApps · July 2013

yes, running on a Samsug Galaxy II

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

Well the most painful problem on Android is threading, because all UI stuff should be run on UI thread. And I thought that I've achieved something like that (at least as I thought I did, because it was working on my mobile), but obviously not.
Of course you can poke around the example project to see if there is something specific that causes this, but only if you want to play with it, because as I said, we are doing complete redesign from scratch which would hopefully allow us better to fix such problems

OZApps · July 2013

@ar2rsawseen,
I can wait, i think it is fine to wait for the new changes/revamp. I was looking for the Native UI on Android to be able to work complete work on a non-game app that relies on creating data.

vitalitymobile · July 2013

@ar2rsawseen and @OZApps
I really want Native UI on Android too. I am using Gideros to create business app that need many input form.

OZApps · July 2013

@vitalitymobile, I am also waiting for the native UI, I can use Wax for iOS but need an easier way for Android. So I am also waiting for that.

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

Made nice progress on Native Android bridge today, but still quite far from UI (again the need to run on UI thread), unfortunately won't be able to work this weekend, have other plans, but basically I hope we could be done with events and threading next week and might have something presentable.

OZApps · July 2013

@ar2rsawseen, since the NativeUI is such a big deal for a few developers, take your time, as this would be a very critical/crucial part of the expectations. If it is rushed and dodgy/buggy, it wouldn't be a good thing.

However, hope you get this done soon

Would there be a common arching plug-in that works for Android/iOS using the same API or would it be different for each platform?

vitalitymobile · July 2013

@OZApps for me the hardest thing is native input text.
Other widgets like button, scrollview, radio button... maybe can "simulate" in LUA language so can use in both platform..
@ar2rsawseen, please, please bring NativeUI to us as soon as posible :P

OZApps · July 2013

@VitalityMobile, one way to manage a workaround is to have a text place holder and each time someone taps the placeholder, you can pop up the TextInputBox, (which is basically an alertView with a textbox), maybe not very professional but would work cross platform.

If we could embed a HTML page, we could have it with the form. Hint Hint @ar2sawseen / @Atilim

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

@OZApps would you mind if I renamed this thread and made it official NativeUI thread?

OZApps · July 2013

It's ok, you can rename it..

hgvyas123 · July 2013

@OZApps would you mind if I renamed this thread and made it official NativeUI thread?

better to create new thread else @ozapps will end up with lot of unwanted notification just my opinion

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

@OZApps if that will bother you, you can let me know and we'll change the thread

But basically I'm getting ready to push our own Android Bridge with UI lib, only need to work out some bugs, hopefully will do it today and could post an update to the Labs on weekend

ar2rsawseen · July 2013

So I updated the Native UI project on Gideros Labs. It includes Native Bridge for Android and Native UI lib wrapped around the bridge.
Bridge and UI examples and some notes are available within the download package.
Currently NativeUI supports:

Android Toast
Buttons
Checkbox
Toggle Buttons
Slider
Progress bar
Activity indicator
Text input
Web view
Video view
Alert Dialog
Options Dialog
Time Picker
Date Picker

Some notes on Native UI

Currently Native UI is Android only and API and provided elements may differ for IOS systems
All UI elements are under ui. namespace, like: "ui.Button"
All UI elements are Gideros classes and should behave like one
All native elements underneath are hidden and wrapped
You should be able to set positions and dimensions of elements (except the dialogs)
Set positions and dimensions should comply with Gideros Autoscaling automatically, so they will automatically be scaled accordingly
To display or hide UI elements use show and hide methods

If any more elements needed or some functionalities need to existing classes, you can post requests in this threads.

Now excuse me, but I'm tired as hell and can't type no mo.....

Daimyo21 · September 2013

Progress update on this? Im sure this would streamline many developers app creation and tedious UI coding including mine! Glad to see it in the works.

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Yes currently a bit stuck on ios side, but keeping that in mind while designing the better approach

ricsmo · January 2014

I know this is marked as "Experimental," and I read the definition of what that means, but I'm wondering if that's only because the IOS side isn't ready? Would it be okay to use it for Android? I'm actually test-writing an app in different frameworks: Appcelerator, C*SDK, and would like to try Gideros, but I really want a native slider and don't want to pay for Gideros and find out that this feature really isn't ready. Also, does it respond to more touch events? I see onChange in the example.

This is more of a business-type app and I really like the functionality in Appcelerator, but I really like the support for ad networks and IAP in Gideros and C*SDK (but don't like the lack of native controls C*SDK).

ar2rsawseen · January 2014

@ricsmo Android Native bridge seems stable and works on all devices we tested, it is mostly in experimental stage yes because of IOS and because API may yet change drastically, this was only the first shot.

But still, would I use it for production? To take single native control element for a game, probably yes, but making full business app all from native elements, probably not yet.

What you might consider using is:
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/4208/widget-candy-for-gideros/p1

achimeno · March 2014

@ar2rsawseen Is possible call LUA code from Android Java using Android Native Bridge?

ar2rsawseen · March 2014

@achimeno unfortunately not

What situation are you having?

achimeno · March 2014

I'm moving from jvbridge to Native Bridge, calling Java funtions from LUA runs perfect, but I have some callbacks from Java to migrate to:

Example:
LUA

local gopenkit = native.getClass("com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.openkit.GOpenkit")
gopenkit.openLoginDialog()

Java

	public static void openLoginDialog()
	{
		OKLoginActivity.setActivityHandler(new OKLoginActivityHandler() {
			<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/Override" rel="nofollow">@Override</a>
			public void onLoginDialogComplete() {
				OKLog.v("Finished showing the OpenKit login dialog");
				//jvbridge.callLua("OPENKIT_ON_DIALOG_COMPLETE", new JVBridgeParams());
				//??????????????????????????
			}
		});
 
		Intent launchOKLogin = new Intent(sActivity.get(), OKLoginActivity.class);
		sActivity.get().startActivity(launchOKLogin);
	}

@ar2rsawseen Have I another way to explore?
Thank you

ar2rsawseen · March 2014

Hmm, you could achieve that using proxies.
Theoretically you could get without java code at all.

This one could look like this:

--you need to get the activity to lua, may create custom 
--function or use internal openkit commands, I just don't know the api
--getLoginActivity function does not really exist, just for exmaple
local OKLoginActivity = getLoginActivity()
 
--create proxy event
local eventProxy = native.createProxy("io.openkit$OKLoginActivityHandler", {onLoginDialogComplete = function()
    --this function will be executed upon event
    -- you can dispatch another lua event or call your function here
end})
OKLoginActivity:setActivityHandler(eventProxy)

achimeno · March 2014

Works fine.

My final code:

local eventProxy = native.createProxy("io.openkit.OKLoginActivityHandler", {onLoginDialogComplete = function()	
			openkitLUA:submitScore(Utils:getUserScore())
		end})		
local gopenkit = native.getClass("com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.openkit.GOpenkit")
gopenkit.openLoginDialog(eventProxy)

Thanks @ar2rsawseen

unlying · July 2017

Have a try with textinput. Crashes for me sometimes(pretty often) during input text.

07-25 11:15:11.761 9177-9177/? E/KeyboardInfoUtils: getInstance start
07-25 11:15:11.761 9177-9177/? E/KeyboardInfoUtils: sendSIPInformation state:6  isAbstractKeyboardView : true
07-25 11:15:11.761 9177-9177/? E/KeyboardInfoUtils: sending null keyboardInfo as SIP is closed
07-25 11:15:11.761 32595-32609/? A/libc: Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1, fault addr 0x0 in tid 32609 (GLThread 220770)
07-25 11:15:11.761 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: resetNeedToLoadHwrLibrary : 0
07-25 11:15:11.771 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: lang.getLanguageCode():en, lang.getCountryCode():US
07-25 11:15:11.771 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: lang.getLanguageCode():ru, lang.getCountryCode():
07-25 11:15:11.771 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: sendInputLanguage() : ru_RU, en_US;ru_RU;
07-25 11:15:11.781 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: lang.getLanguageCode():en, lang.getCountryCode():US
07-25 11:15:11.781 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: lang.getLanguageCode():ru, lang.getCountryCode():
07-25 11:15:11.781 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: sendInputLanguage() : ru_RU, en_US;ru_RU;
07-25 11:15:11.851 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: <AbstractKeyboardView> - onDraw() called
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: Build fingerprint: 'samsung/a5xeltexx/a5xelte:6.0.1/MMB29K/A510FXXU3BPID:user/release-keys'
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: Revision: '4'
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: ABI: 'arm'
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: pid: 32595, tid: 32609, name: GLThread 220770  >>> com.player <<<
07-25 11:15:11.871 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0
07-25 11:15:11.891 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     r0 00000000  r1 ee9114f8  r2 00000008  r3 f49e8ebc
07-25 11:15:11.891 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     r4 e1167f48  r5 00000000  r6 f49636c0  r7 dd862da0
07-25 11:15:11.891 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     r8 ee6bf3c0  r9 00000001  sl 00002330  fp e116e790
07-25 11:15:11.891 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     ip ee911048  sp ee6bf2e8  lr f6efeaab  pc f32b5398  cpsr 60070010
07-25 11:15:11.901 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: <AbstractKeyboardView> - onDraw() called
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: backtrace:
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #00 pc 00013398  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/libnative.so
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #01 pc 0000fb70  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/liblua.so
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #02 pc 0000eae8  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/liblua.so
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #03 pc 000101b8  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/liblua.so
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #04 pc 000102e0  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/liblua.so
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #05 pc 000103bc  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/liblua.so (lua_getfield+76)
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #06 pc 00014190  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/libnative.so (_ZN11NativeProxy8onInvokeEPKciP13gnative_ValuePi+108)
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #07 pc 0000fe84  /mnt/asec/com.player-1/lib/arm/libnative.so (_ZN7GNative12invokeMethodEP8_jstringP13_jobjectArrayS3_x+604)
07-25 11:15:11.921 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG:     #08 pc 00040a15  /data/dalvik-cache/arm/mnt@asec@com.player-1@base.apk@classes.dex (offset 0x2a000)
07-25 11:15:12.461 2242-2242/? A/DEBUG: Tombstone written to: /data/tombstones/tombstone_01
07-25 11:15:12.461 2242-2242/? E/DEBUG: AM write failed: Broken pipe
07-25 11:15:12.461 4358-4358/? E/audit: type=1701 msg=audit(1500970512.461:26160): auid=4294967295 uid=10604 gid=10604 ses=4294967295 subj=u:r:untrusted_app:s0:c512,c768 pid=32609 comm=474C54687265616420323230373730 reason="memory violation" sig=11
07-25 11:15:12.501 2605-553/? E/JavaBinder: !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!!  (parcel size = 104)
07-25 11:15:12.511 2229-2229/? E/lowmemorykiller: Error writing /proc/32595/oom_score_adj; errno=22
07-25 11:15:12.581 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: <AbstractKeyboardView> - onDraw() called
07-25 11:15:12.631 2605-3021/? E/InputDispatcher: channel ~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!
07-25 11:15:12.681 9177-9177/? E/SamsungIME: <AbstractKeyboardView> - onDraw() called

Apollo14 · September 2018

Hey guys!
Does 'Native' plugin work nowadays?
What is the syntax?
I've tried to copy code from this article, it doesn't work:

local toast = ui.Toast.new("test", 100)
 
--button widger
 
--Timer.delayedCall(1000,function()
local button = ui.Button.new("Text")
button:show()
 
button:setWidth(100)
button:setHeight(100)
button:setPosition(100, 100)
 
button:addEventListener("onClick", function(self)
	print("showing toast")
	ui.Toast.new("Test")
end, button)
 
--checkbox widget
 
local chk = ui.CheckBox.new()
chk:show()
chk:setPosition(300, 100)
 
chk:addEventListener("onStateChange", function(e)
	print(e.state)
end)

vitalitymobile · September 2018

@Apollo14 Yes it is still alive

Here is quick tutorial show the android native toast
1. Create new Gideros project
2. Right-click to Plugins and check Native
3. Build to android studio and export or export from Gideros Studio the apk with keystore (Do not use debug as it may be errors like this: http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/5392/android-l-lollipop-doesnt-like-gideros)
4. Enjoy
5. Or you can download project I make for you

Apollo14 · September 2018

vitalitymobile said:
@Apollo14 Yes it is still alive
Here is quick tutorial show the android native toast
1. Create new Gideros project
2. Right-click to Plugins and check Native
3. Build to android studio and export or export from Gideros Studio the apk with keystore (Do not use debug as it may be errors like this: http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/5392/android-l-lollipop-doesnt-like-gideros)
4. Enjoy
5. Or you can download project I make for you

Thanks @vitalitymobile !
It seems that native UI elements work, except webview! That's good!

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