Port on Android

[ellis2323]

Hello, i'm trying to port Irrlicht on Android with the NDK 1.6... I use the svn ogl-es branch.

Work in progress:
- the port is on the way
- i haved compiled all the code
- i see sidney with textures


Code is available on gitorious: Android Irrlicht..

http://gitorious.org/irrlichtandroid/

To test code:
- install the NDK 1.6
- go in android-ndk-1.6_r1 and:
make APP=irrlicht
- go in apps/irrlicht/project and
ant clean install
- please put sydney.md2 and sydney.bmp in /sdcard

To test demo apk:
download sydney.md2 et sydney.bmp and put these files in the root of your sdcard.
download and launch the apk.
http://www.scigems.org/downloads/

[CuteAlien]

Good luck :-) Having an Android port would be great.

[Halifax]

Yeah, if I understand correctly programming Android must be done with Java. Essentially it wouldn't be too difficult to port the current Irrlicht over to Java, in fact it has been done before, but it will take quite a bit of time.

[CuteAlien]

Hm, no - I think that was only for the first NDK version. I read that by now they allow running native applications also.

[Halifax]

Hm, no - I think that was only for the first NDK version. I read that by now they allow running native applications also.

Oh, you're right! That's pretty cool. Now I'm even more interested in throwing around some ideas with the Android NDK.

[hybrid]

The Android SDK uses Java, but using the NDK you can add C-based extensions.

[zet.dp.ua]

Porting for Android is much harder than for iPhone:
- not every opengl function is implemented;
- wchar_t functions don't work;
- no direct file access;
- no native debugging !!!;
- etc.
Rotating 100 scaled 128x128 textured triangles gives ~30 fps on my Samsung i5700.
Also working on porting to android from iphone port
It seems that porting for android is much closer to j2me games: a lot of different devices, low performance, feature-cuts...