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stimarco Member since: 4/11/2000 |
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Quote: This article is misnamed: it's mainly about "Making a game for Android". Please change the title as it's very misleading. Specifically: * There's no coverage of the publishing process at all, regardless of the platform; * 90% of the article is about building a game -- in Java -- for the Android platform; * The iPhone port is rattled off in just a few paragraphs at the end of the piece. Clearly the article predates Apple's killing-off of the unnecessarily draconian iPhone NDA, so the author (naturally) errs on the side of telling you damned near nothing of any value; * The article mentions using Visual Studio to write C + OpenGL code for an iPhone tethered to a Mac mini. This is an unusual development process and I'd have liked to read more on this technique. (I suspect most developers are far more familiar with C than the Objective C language favoured by most OS X developers.) It's an interesting read nevertheless, but the title does it a massive disservice and leaves one feeling robbed. "Creating a mobile game from start to finish" would have been a far better choice. If the same author could be prevailed upon to expand his iPhone section to explain in more detail how the two platforms compare, it'd be a much better piece. Sean Timarco Baggaley (Est. 1971.) Warning: May contain bollocks. |
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swiftcoder Member since: 7/3/2003 From: Boston, MA, United States |
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Quote:It shouldn't be too hard to manage. You will need a small Objective-C shim, to initialise the OpenGL context, and receive and proxy events, which will be forwarded to C/C++ code. This is because all the UI frameworks are written in Objective-C. Most of the low-level stuff, including networking, I/O and of course OpenGL, are available from C/C++ anyway. You could even set up a GCC Windows/ARM cross-compiler with support for Objective-C, and run it in Windows, but unfortunately you still need Apple's GCC to perform the code-signing (unless your device is jail broken). |
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CaptainJester Member since: 11/29/2001 From: Ottawa, Canada |
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| Good article. I really liked the part when you were on cruch, but still made time for your life. There is one bit of misinformation in the article. Quote: Java Micro Edition is not limited to 1 key press at a time. Some phones have this limitation in the hardware but Java can take multiple key presses if the phone can provide it. "None of us learn in a vacuum; we all stand on the shoulders of giants such as Wirth and Knuth and thousands of others. Lend your shoulders to building the future!" - Michael Abrash [JavaGaming.org][The Java Tutorial][Slick][LWJGL][LWJGL Tutorials for NeHe][LWJGL Wiki][jMonkey Engine] |
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billy_zelsnack Member since: 8/5/2003 From: Madison, WI, United States |
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Quote: This is exactly what I do. Each platform has it's own main file. The PC main is in cpp and directx. The iphone main is in obj-c. All the rest of the code is shared cpp. I develop 95% of the time on windows and only when I need a build for the phone do I use the horrid xcode on the mac. |
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swiftcoder Member since: 7/3/2003 From: Boston, MA, United States |
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Quote:Unfortunately, if you are writing anything meaningful, you are going to spend an awful lot of time debugging with the phone. OpenGL ES on the phone has a lot of subtle quirks, and there is no real substitute for play testing with the tilt-sensor and touch screen. |
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sio2interactive Member since: 9/16/2008 From: Samoa, CA, United States |
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Posted - 5/27/2009 4:48:57 AM |
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| I agree that this article is lacking... you will find alot more information on the subject at the following URL Home: http://sio2interactive.com Forum: http://sio2interactive.forumotion.net |
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EDUmobileORG Member since: 5/22/2009 From: appleton, WI, United States |
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| If you need step by step help with porting to iphone or developing with the iphone - check out the EDUmobile.ORG online course. Mobile Development - Online Courses, includes iPhone Programming. |
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