What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?
1) The mobile example (bevy 0.13) doesn't work on my devices <= Android 8.1. When I did get it to work (bevy 0.12) the button was offset from the place where you touch.
2) GameActivity works better, is the current recommended approach and a better match for Bevy. NativeActivity is legacy, crashes on Android <= 5.1 and doesn't have a surface needed for the onscreen keyboard.
3) Cargo apk is deprecated and too limited. GameActivity is compiled separately using a normal Android project, which is what any serious game developer would need anyway. You can keep the Android project in a separate folder from the rust project; the rust part is compiled using cargo ndk.
4) wgpu currently does not work on Android without Vulkan if the backend is not set to GL.
5) The contents of the example could be improved; the zooming is weird and does not use the touch drag in a sensible way.
What solution would you like?
I'm just reporting and not saying this is a priority, but bevy is going to need a GameActivity example since that is the appropriate way to go for a game engine.
It could be based on the agdk examples from rust-android-examples, it's not difficult.
Ideally it would demonstrate use of the keyboard as well (as abstracted by winit, but you need to pass around AndroidApp in order to show the keyboard).
mockersf
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1 month ago
What problem does this solve or what need does it fill?
1) The mobile example (bevy 0.13) doesn't work on my devices <= Android 8.1. When I did get it to work (bevy 0.12) the button was offset from the place where you touch.
2) GameActivity works better, is the current recommended approach and a better match for Bevy. NativeActivity is legacy, crashes on Android <= 5.1 and doesn't have a surface needed for the onscreen keyboard.
3) Cargo apk is deprecated and too limited. GameActivity is compiled separately using a normal Android project, which is what any serious game developer would need anyway. You can keep the Android project in a separate folder from the rust project; the rust part is compiled using cargo ndk.
4) wgpu currently does not work on Android without Vulkan if the backend is not set to GL.
5) The contents of the example could be improved; the zooming is weird and does not use the touch drag in a sensible way.
What solution would you like?
I'm just reporting and not saying this is a priority, but bevy is going to need a GameActivity example since that is the appropriate way to go for a game engine. It could be based on the agdk examples from rust-android-examples, it's not difficult. Ideally it would demonstrate use of the keyboard as well (as abstracted by winit, but you need to pass around AndroidApp in order to show the keyboard).