iOS port

[TorutheRedFox]

it'd make sense to have a port to iOS that supports versions from the time period (iOS 3+ perhaps?)

[TheBrokenRail]

SDL has iOS support, but it's limited to iOS 8+.

[iProgramMC]

I'm sure it would! So, after I port the touch handling code from v0.1.1 or the v0.1.0 touch prototype, why not add iOS support? If SDL having support for only versions 8 and higher, you can always opt for a standard OpenGL ES view based application.

I don't have an iOS device much less an old one.

[TorutheRedFox]

SDL has iOS support, but it's limited to iOS 8+.

older versions of SDL do exist and have been used to port things to iOS 6

xash3d has iOS 6 support for example (well older versions do but point still stands)

[TorutheRedFox]

as for having an iOS device, all you really need is access to Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.9 (Mavericks) to run Xcode 4 or 5

it comes with a simulator (which really is just stripped down iOS compiled for x86 with an SDK of its own) which lets you run and test the app straight from Xcode

[iProgramMC]

Sure, but I don't have access to a Mac OS X device either!

[BrentDaMage]

I have access to all of those. I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.3 and multiple Macs running Snow Leopard and Lion with Xcode 4 installed. I think the best approach would be to write the most portable wrapper possible for the iOS-specific stuff just to get the app running. This would preferably be in C++ and not Objective C.

[iProgramMC]

I think it doesn't matter, since 99% of the MCPE code is the same across all platforms. The official MCPE has an Objective-C based frontend.

Of course it would be nice if SDL worked, but I'm not sure how it handles touch, among other things.

[BrentDaMage]

Poked around a bit with an Objective-C app on Xcode 4 with iOS 3 support. I'm likely just going to reverse-engineer/decompile the Objective-C for the first release of MCPE on iOS. There's only like two Objective-C classes that actually seem to matter in there too, so it may be really easy. We'll see... It should hopefully be easier than doing it from scratch.

[TorutheRedFox]

Sure, but I don't have access to a Mac OS X device either!

a VM will do actually, as long as you manage to set up one that's stable enough to not drive you insane lol

[TorutheRedFox]

I think it doesn't matter, since 99% of the MCPE code is the same across all platforms. The official MCPE has an Objective-C based frontend.

Of course it would be nice if SDL worked, but I'm not sure how it handles touch, among other things.

i'm pretty sure that the Objective-C menu stuff is just for the world creation popup and the options menu, the rest being the same as on Android

[iProgramMC]

i'm pretty sure that the Objective-C menu stuff is just for the world creation popup and the options menu, the rest being the same as on Android

Well you do need a view to display the OpenGL application don't you? I think that's not set up in "the same way as on Android". And not because Apple and Google use different terminology for essentially the same thing (view vs activity).

[TorutheRedFox]

i'm actually not sure how ogl stuff is done on ios, but setting up views in general isn't too difficult and there's a sample ogles project in xcode that you can reference and even build off of

[BrentDaMage]

Can someone assign me to this issue? I'm currently working on decompiling the Objective-C portions of the iOS client.

[iProgramMC]

Sure.

[BrentDaMage]

@iProgramMC This is ready to be closed, we just need to update the README to mention the fact that iOS 3.0 and above is supported.

[TorutheRedFox]

i'll close it in that case then

[iProgramMC]

@iProgramMC This is ready to be closed, we just need to update the README to mention the fact that iOS 3.0 and above is supported.

Done.