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AppGameKit Classic Chat / why doesnt my \android app work?

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novaapz
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Posted: 18th Aug 2012 14:44
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ive made a few android apps and they awere all working nicely until i bought the samsung galaxy note where i downlaoded the apps and instead of images i got black and white boxes with a red cross over them... why is this? if its a fault how can it be fixed please
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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 18th Aug 2012 17:21
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That's because AppGameKit can't find your images.

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Cliff Mellangard 3DEGS
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Posted: 18th Aug 2012 17:47
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First of all is it with the player or you are making an apk file that you install?

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BatVink
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Posted: 18th Aug 2012 19:01
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and what version of Android? It would be good to know whether Ice Cream Sandwich works okay with AGK

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Tone Dialer
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Posted: 18th Aug 2012 22:34
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@ novaapz

Make sure you use only lower case directory and file names (with no spaces), image file names are case sensitive.

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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 09:20
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Quote: " Make sure you use only lower case directory and file names (with no spaces), image file names are case sensitive."

That would have been a good suggestion, had he not used Android before.

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Cliff Mellangard 3DEGS
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 11:27
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Quote: "and what version of Android? It would be good to know whether Ice Cream Sandwich works okay with AGK"

It works on sandwich! But only at half the speed compared to the older versions of android.

They made a change in sandwich that agk dont seam to like?
I belive it have to be the gpu accelerated 2d function that is a standard since 3.0 i belive?

It also make your apps double the memory usage.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 19th Aug 2012 16:12
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GPU acceleration actually slows AppGameKit apps down. Dunno why, but it does.

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novaapz
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all images were space less and in lower case. its an apk file and i dont know the current software type it runs on because my wife seems to think it is hers and i cant seem to get it to look.

should i just recompile the apk file and see if it builds properly?
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Mobiius
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2012 18:25
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Does your game work in windows? If it does, then you've probably placed your media in the wrong locations.

In Windows, my folder structure is like this:

In Android, the folder structure is:


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@Mobiius, first, for Android the path is '<projdir>/assets/media', not just 'assets'. The byte code file goes in the '<projdir>/assets/media' directory. All AppGameKit platforms since v107 assume that the default directory is named 'media'.

Also the media assets (images, sounds, text files) can go in the same directory as the byte code file.

In fact, unless you specify a subdirectory, the 'media' directory is the default location.

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2012 22:03
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My apps work fine on my galaxy note with ICS...
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@Ancient Lady, Guess I need to update my android templates! lol I haven't built an android app for many months! lol

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@Mobius, be careful about the android Tier2 template. Make sure to download the Android_1076_Tier2_Template from the 'Your Products' download page on TGC.

Paul did everyone a great favor and provided one that compiles, links and actually runs on an Android device.

As for your Tier1 ones, just add a media directory under assets and move everything there.

I've posted this elsewhere, but have updated it to NOT copy over the template_android directory.....

These are commands I execute every time I update/change my AppGameKit version. I have my Windows AppGameKit installed in C:\TGC\AGK (I never use the Program Files directories if given the choice, I hate spaces in paths/file names). And I used simply 'android-ndk' for the Android NDK path (I used the most recent version). And I just created from IDE down in the android set, since I didn't need anything else in the AppGameKit tree.

A good command to use before anything else, to make sure directory/file permissions are set well:


To update the core AppGameKit stuff:


To update my own projects after updating core AppGameKit (this is important to make sure that your project uses any new stuff):


After doing the above to make sure the permissions are correct and that Eclipse will be able to run the app on the Android device:


Now, just so you have a working player, build the player:


Edit /cygdrive/c/Android/IDE/apps/interpreter/interpreter.cpp to uncomment the correct line so that your app will run instead of the player. In v1075 and v1076 it is at line #255:


Copy from your AppGameKit Tier1 directory, clean and compile your app:


Good luck!

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