Angband on Android

[retrobits]

Originally Posted by tprice

The upgrade didn't go smoothly. I got an unable to find \lib\ type error when starting Angband since the new version uses \libangband320\ instead. Ended up having to do an uninstall and then reinstalled the new code. It worked fine after that and i was able to copy over my backed up save file and keep on playing fine.

Thanks for the report. I forgot that the beta versions all have the same internal version number so the install would not execute if you had a prior beta. I'll try to clean that up for the future.

Glad the key mapping is working for you.

[tprice]

Feature request for Angdroid.

In Vanilla Angband for Windows you get to choose which save file to load. Can you implement that functionality?

Its useful for swapping to an alt character if you want a magic using break from you main warrior without having to use a pc to manually copy and rename save files.

Thomas Price
Aka the Bookworm

[retrobits]

Originally Posted by tprice

Feature request for Angdroid.

In Vanilla Angband for Windows you get to choose which save file to load. Can you implement that functionality?

Thomas,

That feature is already implemented. In preferences tap "Game Profile", tap menu, tap "New Profile". Type a descriptive name, tap OK. Tap the descriptive name you just created to make the profile active. Now tap "Selected variant" to choose the game to run with the profile. Note that the Game section in Preferences sticks to the selected profile. To quickly switch profiles in the future, just tap "Game Profile".

[geoff_tewierik]

Congrats on what you have put together so far. I tried the 3.08 version on my phone but had no joy with it due to a lack of keyboard, but the latest release works fine.

I am playing the 3.1.2v2.5 version on a Desire HD and find the lack of Esc key on the main keyboard mildly annoying. Is it possible to somehow massage the keyboard to include the Esc key? Makes dealing with shops and lists a lot easier.

Cheers,

GT

[retrobits]

Thanks GT.

First off, esc by default is mapped to your hardware back key, but maybe you know that already.

That being said, I could change * to esc, possibly switch back to * on shift. Maybe an extra top row of keys could be added... but that would shrink the viewable area.

[geoff_tewierik]

Thanks for the info, and no I hadn't worked out the hardware back key did the job.

Makes changes to the keyboard irrelevant now

Thanks.

Back to diving.

[retrobits]

Angband development is very active at the moment. We thought it would be good to produce a nightly Android build based on the current Angband source in the git repo. Be aware that this is untested code and might be broken or crash or eat your save file, etc. It is a completely new Android app and will not affect files in our other releases.

If you find bugs, I would encourage you to open discussions in the forums here and even more importantly please open tickets at http://trac.rephial.org/. For Android specific issues, please report bugs at angdroid.org in the bug forum. I've patched the version number in the game with the timestamp when we retrieved the Angband source from git, so that is a way to track bugs back to the source. Its probably a good idea to reproduce the bug in one of the official nightly builds from http://rephial.org/nightlies/ before opening a ticket at rephial. I figure the more bugs we find and the more feedback the Angband community provide to the devs, the better the outcome will be.

The nightly is available here:
http://angdroid.org/public_ftp/Angba...ly-release.apk

[d_m]

Originally Posted by retrobits

Angband development is very active at the moment. We thought it would be good to produce a nightly Android build based on the current Angband source in the git repo. Be aware that this is untested code and might be broken or crash or eat your save file, etc. It is a completely new Android app and will not affect files in our other releases.

Are there patches to the core game that you all have that you'd want to pull into the official repo?

[retrobits]

Originally Posted by d_m

Are there patches to the core game that you all have that you'd want to pull into the official repo?

There is only one patch at the moment that is required for Android. I use the Esc followed by Ctrl-X command as a general purpose signal for the native code to exit. This works except in death.c. But I don't think my hacked code below should be included in git. It would be best if the app just exited on Ctrl-X immediately as it does in the birth screens.

diff -Nru --strip-trailing-cr angband-3.2.0/src/death.c angband-3.2.0-android/src/death.c
--- angband-3.2.0/src/death.c 2010-12-24 05:13:59.000000000 -0800
+++ angband-3.2.0-android/src/death.c 2010-12-24 11:05:09.343486000 -0800
@@ -437,5 +437,11 @@
do
{
menu_select(death_menu, 0);
- } while (!get_check("Do you want to quit? "));
+
+ // hack to allow KTRL('X') to exit the game here
+ char opts[4] = {'y', 'n', KTRL('X'), '\0'};
+ char gckey = get_char("Do you want to quit?", &opts[0], 2, 'n');
+ if (gckey == KTRL('X') || gckey == 'y' || gckey == 'Y') break;
+
+ } while (TRUE);
}

[Nick]

Originally Posted by retrobits

There is only one patch at the moment that is required for Android. I use the Esc followed by Ctrl-X command as a general purpose signal for the native code to exit. This works except in death.c. But I don't think my hacked code below should be included in git. It would be best if the app just exited on Ctrl-X immediately as it does in the birth screens.

That sounds sensible.