Re: [Enigma-devel] Enigma on Android?

[Sparr]

I ported Enigma to the GP2X a while back.  The hard part was two-fold:

Most ARM processors have no hardware floating point unit.  On the GP2X
I used software floats and lowered the precision of every 'double' in
the code to 'float' with no apparent ill effects.  This was sufficient
for all but the most physics-heavy levels, like some of the meditation
levels.

Android devices can have very small screens, down to 240x320.  On the
GP2X I dealt with a 320x240 screen by ripping out a lot of the
UI-placement math (that couldn't handle resolutions below 640x480),
and creating a new smaller set of graphics for all of the UI elements
and tiles.  I believe that some (all?) of this work has been made
irrelevant by code changes to Enigma in the last 2-3 years, but am
unsure of the details there.  And even if that is the case, it still
won't fit easily (or at all, playably) on a portrait-mode 240x320
screen (of which 240x180 would be usable for the normal 4:3 display
area for Enigma), so you might have to force landscape mode in some
situations where the OS thinks it is inappropriate.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:15 PM, David Sprehn <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
> Just an idea: it would be really awesome to have a version of Enigma running
> on Android.  I have no idea how hard it would be to port though (especially
> since I think Android doesn't have SDL right now??)
> Anyone have any idea if this might be possible?
>
> Thanks!
> --David
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