Gideros 2019.5 released

hgy29 · May 2019

Hi guys, I am proud to announce the availability of Gideros 2019.5.

In this latest version, a lotf of work has been done in order to support non latin font rendering, by integrating HarfBuzz shaping library. Due to its size, it was made into a plugin. HarfBuzz performs accurate glyph transformation and placement, and deals with RTL texts all by itself.

Beside another set of bugfixes, 2019.5 also brings a useful new feature: Gideros player can take screenshots to ease store assets creation.

Here is the full list of changes:

New features

[plugin/harfbuzz] Support for harfbuzz font shaping library
[core/qt] Add application:getKeyboardModifiers()
[player] Add screenshot shortcut (F12)

Improvements

[gfx] Allow querying text position from coordinates and vice-versa
[plugin/luamidi] Update rtmidi to v4.0
[plugin/luamidi] catch errors in lua
[plugin/ads] Update AppLoving SDK
[player] Add iPad Pro 3 & iPhone XR resolutions

Fixes

[gfx] Fix layout constraints and add fontbase layout infos
[uwp] Fix various UTF-8 to widechar conversions
[ios/metal] Sanitize setClip()
[plugin/spout] Fix destructors

As usual you can get the latest version here:
http://giderosmobile.com/download

talis · May 2019

Perfect release, one more time great job. It can not be the reflection of the job done and my gratitude but i will also donate as soon as i will solve my problem with paypal.
Thanks again for the great job.

Apollo14 · May 2019

SWEET!!!!!

[gfx] Allow querying text position from coordinates and vice-versa

What is 'querying text position'? Can you pls drop a code snippet! Many thanks!

hgy29 · May 2019

@Apollo14, here you go:

local text=TextField.new(font,"This is a text")
local isS,isE=string.find(text:getText()," is ") --Get 'is' word position
local isSX,isSY=text:getPointFromTextPosition(isS) --Get 'i' starting point
local isEX,isEY=text:getPointFromTextPosition(isE-1) -- Get 's' end point, that is next space's starting point
-- Draw a red underline under the 'is' word
local underline=Pixel.new(0xFF0000,1,isEX-isSX,3)
underline:setPosition(isSX,2)
stage:addChild(text)
stage:addChild(underline) 
-- Figure out which char is at the middle of the 'is' word (should be 's' since it is larger')
local c,CX,CY=text:getTextPositionFromPoint((isSX+isEX)/2,0)
print("'is' mid char is at:"..c.." (location "..CX..","..CY..")")

hgy29 · May 2019

I added those two functions in order to ease caret positionning when editing text fields...

MoKaLux · May 2019

many thanks for the new release! I am looking forward to trying harfbuzz!

MoKaLux · May 2019

yep harbuzz looks pretty amazing, thanks for the addition.

I thought I needed to activate the plugin first and then do some include stuff but no, it just works out of the box!

Some sample code:

	local csvaw01 = csv:getField(1, "txtAr")
	local awfont = TTFont.new("fonts/trado.ttf", 64)
	local aw01 = xCenteredTextField.new(csvaw01, awfont, "0xffffff", 1, 1, myappwidth / 2, myappheight / 1.3)
	self:addChild(aw01)

I find it quite difficult to write arabic in any editor so I use a csv file instead.

Once again thank you for this great addition.

require "donation"
 
func sendDonation()
   print("ok")
end

MobAmuse · May 2019

I always test android apk build with the latest version of gideros and what built OK with 2019.4 fails with 2019.5. I have updated Android Studio also.

Any ideas?

:app:processReleaseResources FAILED
13 actionable tasks: 13 executed

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseResources'.
> Android resource linking failed
Output: C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml:92: error: attribute android:configchanges not found.
error: failed processing manifest.

Command: C:\Users\adria\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows.jar\304434a4d2d0517cf216fcbd02e5b5d0\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe link -I\
C:\Users\adria\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platforms\android-28\android.jar\
--manifest\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml\
-o\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\processed_res\release\processReleaseResources\out\resources-release.ap_\
-R\
@C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\incremental\processReleaseResources\resources-list-for-resources-release.ap_.txt\
--auto-add-overlay\
--java\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\generated\not_namespaced_r_class_sources\release\processReleaseResources\r\
--proguard-main-dex\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\legacy_multidex_aapt_derived_proguard_rules\release\processReleaseResources\manifest_keep.txt\
--custom-package\
com.mobileamusements.AquaSlots2TreasureIslandFREE\
-0\
apk\
--output-text-symbols\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\symbols\release\R.txt\
--no-version-vectors
Daemon: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows Daemon #0
Output: C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml:92: AAPT: error: attribute android:configchanges not found.

error: failed processing manifest.
Command: C:\Users\adria\.gradle\caches\transforms-1\files-1.1\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows.jar\304434a4d2d0517cf216fcbd02e5b5d0\aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows\aapt2.exe link -I\
C:\Users\adria\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platforms\android-28\android.jar\
--manifest\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\merged_manifests\release\processReleaseManifest\merged\AndroidManifest.xml\
-o\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\processed_res\release\processReleaseResources\out\resources-release.ap_\
-R\
@C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\incremental\processReleaseResources\resources-list-for-resources-release.ap_.txt\
--auto-add-overlay\
--java\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\generated\not_namespaced_r_class_sources\release\processReleaseResources\r\
--proguard-main-dex\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\legacy_multidex_aapt_derived_proguard_rules\release\processReleaseResources\manifest_keep.txt\
--custom-package\
com.mobileamusements.AquaSlots2TreasureIslandFREE\
-0\
apk\
--output-text-symbols\
C:\Temp\AquaSlots2\tmp\app\build\intermediates\symbols\release\R.txt\
--no-version-vectors
Daemon: AAPT2 aapt2-3.2.0-4818971-windows Daemon #0

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 6s
Exec returned: 1
Export failed! See details above

hgy29 · May 2019

Yes, there is an issue with applovin, a typo that made it into last release. See ads.gplugin fix here: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/503daac6221046b15398cc0d923d9cd129798cc6

MobAmuse · May 2019

OK thanks.

MobAmuse · May 2019

Perfect thank you - will donate $$ in morning

---

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 46s
29 actionable tasks: 29 executed
Exec returned: 0
Replaced local.apkname by AquaSlots2 @3
Replaced local.isUnsigned by @13
Cp: app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk -> ../AquaSlots2.apk
Cd: ..
RmDir: tmp
0
If: 0
Export done

keszegh · June 2019

is it (and where) on the roadmap to export to Android App Bundle?

oleg · June 2019

keszegh said:
is it (and where) on the roadmap to export to Android App Bundle?

hgy29 said:
Not for 2018.10, but probably for 2018.11!

Apollo14 · June 2019

Google team recently said that app bundles will become mandatory in the future

hgy29 · June 2019

Did anyone here tried to make an Android App Bundle from a gideros export ?
EDIT: I just tried and it seems to actually build a .aab file, can't tell if it actually works since I don't have an android device

oleg · June 2019

@hgy29
and the directories base /, feature1 /, feature2 did you do manually?

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/your-first-dynamic-app/index.html#5

hgy29 · June 2019

no, I just clicked on 'build bundle', and the .aab was made, and it looks like it generated the base directory by itself. Not sure what the 'features' are for.

MobAmuse · June 2019

@hgy29 I have no idea how to make an app bundle from Gideros export, so am still uploading as apk (with warning) to Google Play currently until further notice.

hgy29 · June 2019

@MobAmuse, all is needed is to untick 'build apk' from APK export, open the project in android studio, then select Build/Generate (signed) bundle in AS Menu bar.

As I said, I can't guarantee the aab will actually work, but I am surprised no one tried yet! Did you guys became that dependant on automatic APK generation ?

keszegh · June 2019

for me the main advantage would be to lower size for different cpus without the need to upload several apks.

MobAmuse · June 2019

@hgy29 I will test that later today cheers. Yes I only use export apk feature now as can't stand bloaty old Android Studio these days normally LOL

I no longer support iOS so just use that feature of gideros mostly.

hgy29 · June 2019

I'll have a go on android emulator

oleg · June 2019

hgy29 said:
no, I just clicked on 'build bundle', and the .aab was made, and it looks like it generated the base directory by itself. Not sure what the 'features' are for.

it will be an ordinary apk without dynamic modules ..

oleg · June 2019

hgy29 said:
Did you guys became that dependant on automatic APK generation ?

I am such

hgy29 · June 2019

hgy29 said:
I'll have a go on android emulator

Tried and it worked for my last game. There is a possibility that some plugins/combos may fail though, hard to tell.
For those willing to check, I had to follow the steps outlined here: https://medium.com/mindorks/android-app-bundle-6c65ce8105a1 to be able to launch my app from AS to the device while using the android bundle step. The thing is android devices don't handle android bundles, only APKs, so in order to try android bundle AS must first generate the bundle, then convert it back to an APK...

MobAmuse · June 2019

Yes I since built a bundle of a test app and uploaded it to Google Play (blind test only!). It seems to all work OK, albeit a bit painful coming from normal gideros automated apk export :P

I had to enroll in the new app signing thing on Google Play first and export the newer signing key via Android Studio tho for the app in question to allow the bundle to upload correctly.

MobAmuse · June 2019

Since rebuilt some more of my apps as bundles and all good so far.

hgy29 · June 2019

Thanks for the feedback @MobAmuse, I will add the option to build AAB from gideros. It should be as easy as changing a few lines in APK.gexport file. About splitting the app into 'base' and 'features', I am not sure what gideros could/should do.

keszegh · June 2019

sounds great,
doing this will automatically download only the right binaries for the actual phone, or this only works if we deal with base/features too?

hgy29 · June 2019

Accoding to the diagram here: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle, it seems that each module embeds binaries for all phones, and that google play create the APK by including only relevant libraries for the target phone.
That is, if I understood correctly

keszegh · June 2019

@hgy29 , thanks, then it would be great to have app bundle export straight from gideros before the x64 requirement, so that we can immediately do it the 'right' way.

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