Gideros 2022.1 Released

hgy29 · February 2022

Thanks for reporting, the good thing is that you can reproduce it, and even better you know how to make a debug version of the studio and run it under qt creator to catch the crash

MoKaLux · February 2022

MoKaLux said:
I am sorry to tell but gideros studio crashes on me

When I turn tools->live syntax checking off all is good

MobAmuse · February 2022

I just realised that I also have this problem on Android building higher than 30.

keszegh · February 2022

yes, it would be great to have a fix for the android build, i'd be happy to test the android export.

MobAmuse · February 2022

Nope still can't build greater than 30 for Android as .apk or .aab output. I'm using Android Studio BumbleBee 2021.1.1

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processReleaseMainManifest'.
> Manifest merger failed : android:exported needs to be explicitly specified for . Apps targeting Android 12 and higher are required to specify an explicit value for `android:exported` when the corresponding component has an intent filter defined. See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element#exported for details

hgy29 · February 2022

The supposed fix is in the repository already:https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/760fd05563943fb3be5c80c1b860e542306c7b22#diff-3a8a905c86c7c2f860bffed49b558432bc72fe879d3b934bb23dd645881bb2b3

MobAmuse · February 2022

All good now with that fix thanks again.

MobAmuse · February 2022

After updating a few apps, it would appear that manifest fix for API 32 builds breaks compatibility with Amazon Fire TV builds. I will report back when I have reverted one of my test submissions and see if it passes review again at API 30 level without the fix applied.

MobAmuse · February 2022

...and... just had the same app pass thru Google all OK but when I run it on my Android 12 mobile with the API 32 fix it crashes. Not sure how it even passed review LOL. Will know more when the test apps have gone thru review on the various devices/storefronts back at API 30 level.

MobAmuse · February 2022

Even worse, nothing I'm exporting currently is working correctly on real devices it seems, so reverting to older Gideros to see where the problem began.

MobAmuse · February 2022

Nope, tried everything I can think of and although .apk or .aab export fine at say API 30 or even 32 with the manifest fix, they all crash on my device on boot. Maybe it has something to do with updated Android Studio Bumblebee? Out of ideas currently but will keep playing with it more this week. Will try logcat on apk perhaps.

hgy29 · February 2022

@MobAmuse, if you can post a logcat log of the error, I wil try to figure out

MobAmuse · February 2022

@hgy29 It is odd that Android Studio no longer seems to be able to attach an app process to logcat but you can still see the output amongst the entire device output there anyway (see logcat output below).

Trying another app I udpated anyway, It appears to be a problem with the newer dataSaver class I updated to recently. I can't use my old dataSaver. code as latest Gideros complains now. This is why I updated to the newer class version of dataSaver: recently.

If I swap back to very old dataSaver. method I get the error in Gideros player at least...

Main.lua:1331: attempt to call a nil value
stack traceback:
Main.lua:1331: in function LoadWarningStatus
Main.lua:1341: in function

i.e.

1331 function LoadWarningStatus()
local App_DataWarn=dataSaver.loadValue("App_DataWarn")
end

--- logcat output using newer dataSaver:

2022-02-24 08:28:28.362 10832-10863/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 3023
Process: com.mobileamusements.BigMoneyBugsSlotsFREE, PID: 10832
com.giderosmobile.android.player.LuaException: [string "luabinding/compatibility.lua"]:79: Module json not found
stack traceback:
[string "luabinding/compatibility.lua"]:79: in function require
[string "dataSaver.lua"]:3: in function <[string "dataSaver.lua"]:1>
at LUA.require(string_luabindingcompatibility.lua:79)
at LUA.string_dataSaverlua1(string_dataSaver.lua:3)

MobAmuse · February 2022

I think I forgot to add the JSON plugin to match the newer dataSaver: class so will try that next.

MobAmuse · February 2022

Yes it was that above AND also ads initialisation causing crash. I use AppLovin & Unity in the free versions. Not sure what to do about those but my main mission is to update all the paid fire TV versions so not currently a problem yet.

I'm Using API 32 and Google Play Services version 20.6.0 (latest listed on Maven) in free version that still crashes. Paid & TV versions without ads plugin are fine now.

--- logcat output using AppLovin & Unity Ads

2022-02-24 08:55:20.787 21495-21495/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.mobileamusements.AquaSlots2TreasureIslandFREE, PID: 21495
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAdsInitProvider: java.lang.IllegalStateException:

******************************************************************************
* The Google Mobile Ads SDK was initialized incorrectly. AdMob publishers *
* should follow the instructions here: *
* https://googlemobileadssdk.page.link/admob-android-update-manifest *
* to add a valid App ID inside the AndroidManifest. *
* Google Ad Manager publishers should follow instructions here: *
* https://googlemobileadssdk.page.link/ad-manager-android-update-manifest. *
******************************************************************************

MobAmuse · February 2022

I don't use AdMob ads but this may help...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52786963/unable-to-get-provider-com-google-android-gms-ads-mobileadsinitprovider-java-la

keszegh · March 2022

@hgy29 what does this mean in new version:
[texture] Add a way to disable alpha premultiplication

hgy29 · March 2022

keszegh said:
@hgy29 what does this mean in new version:
[texture] Add a way to disable alpha premultiplication

In Gideros, texture rgb components are multiplied by the a component before uploading. This is a recommended behavior in OpenGL which helps with alpha blending. There is new setting when loading textures to tell Gideros to not premultiply components and upload texture as it is in the image file. This can be helpful if one wants to store specific data in the alpha channel of a texture along with a dedicated shader.

keszegh · March 2022

could this (along with a specific shader) help with that old request of mine to uniformly change the alpha of a mesh array? i.e., now setting alpha to 50% will make overlapping mesh parts look darker, but i want that all mesh parts have the same color even when overlapping.

keszegh · March 2022

actually i start to remember that the additional difficulty was that this should work for a collection of meshes as sometimes i have so huge a mesh that it does not fit into the vertex limit and so i have to split it into multiple meshes but they should behave as one when changing the opacity of this object.

MoKaLux · March 2022

Thank you hgy29 for building new gideros

ReactPhysics3D v0.9 and so much more

PS: sorry for not replying before but I was waiting for R3D v0.9 to make my Gideros official example and I was right because the project crashes immediately upon launch, must be some classes have changed, will investigate.

EDIT: code highlighting does not work for me (gideros 2022.3), I cannot make reactphysics work anymore! I think I need a break

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