[Scummvm-devel] Android port

[Angus Lees]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 21:37, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> Am 22.04.2010 um 07:36 schrieb Angus Lees:
>> This works for me.  How do you want me to submit such a patch?
>
> The "small" patch I was talking about would go into backends/platforms/android/; and then you'd make yet another big patch, as before, just without the gui changes with the new "small" patch embedded just like the other new files.
>
> And then submit that via the existing patch tracker item. :)

Oh right - I'll upload a hopefully final patch to the patch tracker in
the next day or so.

> My impression is that the Android market is quite fragmented. Tons of phones are still being sold with Android 1.6 or even just 1.5, and no (official) way to upgrade them in sight, and there are also still quite some 2.0 phones out there... That sounds to me as if it was quite difficult to develop software which is really available on all Android phones. Nasty.
> I wonder whether those changes you have to make mean that future versions of your port will only work on 2.x but not on 1.x?

I intend to make the Android port work on everything 1.5 and later
(including 2.1).  This has been what has made the upcoming OpenGLES
rewrite necessary - I could easily have just patched/rebuilt the
existing code for any particular Android OS version, but that isn't a
great long-term strategy.

GLES will mean that the device will need a hardware-accelerated GL
implementation however, but that seems to be commonplace on the
various Android devices I know about.

 - Gus