Building RingLibSDL Games/Apps For Android

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello everyone,

We've released a major update for the RingLibSDL extension's Android project, making Android development with Ring much easier and more modern.

You can find all the latest changes in the GitHub repository here:
ring - extensions/android/ringlibsdl - GitHub

Here are the key improvements in this update:

*    Complete Project Overhaul: The entire Android project has been refactored from the ground up to follow modern development standards. This overhaul introduces a clean, Gradle-based structure that you can import directly into Android Studio without any hassle. As part of this modernization, we've also integrated the latest SDL2 libraries, ensuring you get the best performance, security, and compatibility.

*   Automated Setup Scripts: We've introduced new automated scripts that handle installing the Android SDK and NDK and building the project. This dramatically simplifies the initial environment setup, allowing developers to get started much faster.

To showcase these improvements, here is a screenshot from one of our animation samples running on two test devices:

Android 15:



Android 5:



Best regards,
Youssef

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

This is a wonderful update, and I like the automated scripts used for installing the SDK and Libraries

Keep up the GREAT WORK :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[max]

Hallo,

should we first call rimgpm install  RingLibSDL  ?

[max]

ringpm update androidringlibsdl

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Error(8) : No updates for this package

Package Name : androidringlibsdl

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

Thank you for your kind words.

Best regards,

Youssef 

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Max,

I believe this package hasn't been updated yet, so please wait for Mahmoud to update it.

Best regards,

Youssef

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Max

Get this update by getting Ring 1.24 from GitHub

Such packages that include a version of Ring are updated only when the new Ring version is released.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Youssef,

Congratulations for this valuable contribution to the mobile side of Ring!

Some of the good design decisions is the fact of using Qt as a backend for generation cross platform mobile apps. Still, the fact of leaving Ring (and Ring NodePad), opening Qt Creator, and building the app there is disrupting to the programmer's experience.

I hope we will consider doing the same script automation to that effect as you've done for the setup of the requirements.

All the best,

Mansour

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[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mansour,

Thank you for your kind words.

> I hope we will consider doing the same script automation to that effect as you've done for the setup of the requirements.

Yes, perhaps this could be automated with CMake instead of launching Qt Creator.

Best regards,

Youssef