Gideros 2016.4 published!

john26 · April 2016

I'm proud to announce that Gideros 2016.4 has now been published!

New features:

HTML5 export now included in official releases! (thanks to those who funded the Kickstarter campaign!)
New keyboard event: EVENT.KEY_CHAR is now triggered on some platforms (QT, HTML5, WinRT) to allow grabbing textual representation of text typed on a physical keyboard.
Completely rethought the export system: introduce direct APK export (for Android) and app icon generation from a single visual (on some exports, work in progress)
Viewport object (inherits from Sprite): displaying same sprite hierarchy in multiple places, eg for split-screen games.
Cryptography: MD5 hash and AES128 encryption primitives
Lightweight Win32 Windows desktop export now promoted to beta. Now exports two executables one with a debugging console and one without. Largely feature complete but still lacks UrlLoader.

Additions:

Path2D texture support
gdrdaemon: Handle player discovery

Fixes:

Path2D bounds computation
Gideros Studio: Handle player loss (as opposed to discovery)
LiquidFun issues
Windows Store apps: fixed scaling issue on low resolution Windows 10 devices

We've put a huge effort into this new release so, if you like it, please give us a "tip" when you download. You can also influence the direction of Gideros development by putting money into different categories on the download page. Thank you very much for your generosity!

Download Gideros 2016.4 here!

keszegh · April 2016

thanks a lot!

html export is amazing.

my 30 fps locked app seems to be running on 60 fps when exported to html.

keszegh · April 2016

in html export ESC key seems to trigger KeyCode.E instead of KeyCode.ESC.

hgy29 · April 2016

@keszegh, thanks for reporting, I'll have it fixed.

hgy29 · April 2016

About 2016.4, as John said a lot of work have been put into it, under the hood.

Export system is now scriptable: XML files can be written to instruct Gideros what to do to export an app to a specific target. The new APK export uses this new scheme, while previous exports have not been converted yet.

Theoretically, we could add direct .appx export (for WinRT/UWB), or .ipa export (provided you run gideros on a Mac). The new plugable export style just runs commands on your machine to build the target. APK export uses Android SDK, Java and Ant, and we could use MSBuild/Visual studio the same way for WinRT, or xcode for ios.

The great thing is that YOU can write those XML files, no need for C code or recompilation.

But before we go further and convert every export to the new style, we'd like to have your feedback about APK export.

Automatic plugin integration is also on the way, and would already work if we actually had converted existing plugins the the new XML driven way. This is a huge work, but I am convinced we'll get there in the end.

yubaro · April 2016

Thank you guys for your great effort!

Here my tests of export Html5, in Mac OS X:

FireFox: works perfect!
Safari: It works somewhat slow and not working AceSlide
Chrome: not working, stays in "Preparing"
Opera: similar to Chrome

mertocan · April 2016

Nice job!

@yubaro if you want to test html export on Chrome you should host your html in somewhere. Otherways you will get some errors on console log.

antix · April 2016

Awesome!

I'm having trouble trying to decide what to vote for in my donation though. Apart from "Better Documentation", nothing else really engages me to click

keszegh · April 2016

the bug with the wacom tablets persists (which does not surprise me much, but i hope you can get rid of it somehow) that alongside pen events mouse events are triggered by the pen.

on the positive side pressure sensitive pen works finally on android. it is registered with type 'finger' but that's a limitation of android i guess, it does not matter.

Zizanyman · April 2016

I've been so excited for this update ever since I saw the Kickstarter! The direct apk export sounds awesome as well! Will it really let you skip the entire android studio step?

keszegh · April 2016

@hgy29, also F1-F12 keys trigger KeyCode.F in html, so it seems their first letter is relevant somehow (E of ESC, F of F11).

john26 · April 2016

@Zizanyman, yes it does, but you still need to install Java, Android SDK and Ant. See the documentation here

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/deployment.html

Section: Create a signed APK directly using Gideros Studio

john26 · April 2016

@antix, well £100 on Documentation would be great! ;-)

If you are not sure you could just put a pound or two on each section equally. But is there any category you would prefer to see? We can change these over time, I'd love to hear what users want on the sliders.

Perhaps each release the least popular slider topic could be replaced by something suggested by users?

antix · April 2016

@john26, my desires are hard to fit into one line really. I'd love to make a few "reminder" type apps where users can select a date and time and be reminded of something on that date time. Home screen Widgets would also be cool. All that normal "appy" type stuff really. I think Gideros has a fantastic future for both games and business type apps.

simwhi · April 2016

I'm on my third attempt of trying to downloading 2016-4!! My internet here is crappy. I haven't donated yet as my business partner is away on holiday until the weekend, and it's also difficult to decide what to ask for. There are so many choices, but I think sound and export options (not new targets) would be first on my list. I also think plugins are important, but I think you should get existing ones updated first. Of course, all the other options are great too, but less important to us at this time.

BTW, brilliant job guys!!

Ninjadoodle · April 2016

Awesome! I've just downloaded the new version and donated

Thank you heaps for all the hard work!!!

keszegh · April 2016

i would not say that you need to copy that but e.g. openfl's homepage has less tabs but the most informatives and important are immediately at hand, namely i regard
'blog' and 'forum' very important in long term and for newcomers a 'showcase' is also something important. and of course 'download'.
so something like this would be maybe more contemporary:
-gideros
-showcase
-download
-blog
-forum
-resources (here ...)
-about gideros (and here: developers, maintainers, thank you)
-donate

maybe that's still too much main tabs, the main point is to make showcase, blog and forum more visible.

keszegh · April 2016

i've put my app on my homepage:
http://longtitleproductions.bitbucket.org/fragmenter/fragmenterapp.html
it works in firefox but not in chrome (starts to load but then the app does not appear).
i've set required memory to 1gb on export for having enough, does this matter?

f12 console says: error Uncaught RangeError: gideros.js:1 Array buffer allocation failed

edit: on a friends mac it works in chrome

mertocan · April 2016

@keszegh try to decrease Memory mb. it is 128 in my website and it is working. onlinewordhunt.com

Change GIDEROS_MEMORY_MB=1024; to GIDEROS_MEMORY_MB=128; in html. I am not sure but maybe it will work.

keszegh · April 2016

thanks, reducing to 256mb was enough. hopefully it will be enough for my app, it's been a while since i tested memory usage.

MikeHart · April 2016

@keszegh: Your link about gives an out of memory error in Firefox.

icworx · April 2016

Is the KeyCode issue in HTML5 target happens on all browsers?
Any simple test program available?

I've tested the exported HTML5 page works on Node-Webkit, nice job!

keszegh · April 2016

@MikeHart, thanks for testing, i further decreased the memory setting to 128mb, can you check it now? (in my firefox it worked even when it was 1gb but perhaps having 12gb physical memory helps)

keszegh · April 2016

about apk export:
-for me in dark theme there is nothing in the textboxes, or rather there are white texts on white bg as clicking on one and being highlighted makes it visible.
-in the tutorial the application icon part is not explained. should we give the filename of a file added to the project? what does the tickbox eactly mean 'not used by lua code'?

hgy29 · April 2016

@keszegh, you are right, MetroDark theme doesn't show the table the way it should. I tried a few others without issues...

The application icon is the path of some .png icon added to the project, as if it had to be load from lua. The tickbox tells Gideros that the icon is not used by lua code itself, so the icon file doesn't need to be exported as part of the assets.

The idea behind this is that the icon would generally be large (high definition), maybe several megabytes, so if not used by lua code it is better to leave it out from assets.

keszegh · April 2016

that answers most of my questions about apk export.
-and should i add .png to the filename when written in the apk export box?
-do you know where the sdk is if i have android studio installed and that installed the sdk?

hgy29 · April 2016

Yes, add the .png extension, we may be able to handle other image formats later

I don't know much Android Studio however, I am still using Eclipse/ADT...

john26 · April 2016

It should still be in c:\program files\android-sdk I think.

Also you should still have "Android SDK tools" in your start menu.

keszegh · April 2016

i've found it, the sdk is in user/appdata/local/android/sdk.

yet, maybe i did not manage to link the right ant directory, but i get the error:

...\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\ant\build.xml:538: Unable to resolve project target 'android-19'

edit: i've changed it to android-21 and also changed the java dir to the java/bin dir. and now there is no explicit error in the error.log, the last line being:

Cp: bin/myapp-release-unsigned.apk -> ../myapp-unsigned.apk

however i don't see any apk anywhere (only the error.log and the temp folder). any ideas?

john26 · April 2016

can you copy the entire error.log here?

keszegh · April 2016

@john26, see pm.

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