Android Split Screen Support?

The posts I’ve seen on this subject are very old, so I figured I would ask here. Is there a way to make a game with a split screen? I’m working on a game in which two objects mirror each others’ movements using one set of controls, but the game screen is too large for a phone. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

There are at least two ways you could do split screen

  1. Manually recreated two identical screens (but from different views)
  2. Using textures to replicate two identical screens (but from the exact same view)

The first method takes a lot of design forethought, and if you need help with it you can ask me.

The second method is fairly easy, just look look into the snapshot api https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/graphics/snapshot.html

Hope this helps!

I wrote a viewport cloner a long time ago that might be useful if you can take it apart and re-invent it a bit for your own needs.

My original post on this: Split Screen and Beyond

The git link: https://github.com/roaminggamer/RG_FreeStuff/raw/master/AskEd/2018/10/viewportCloning.zip

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It looks awesome Ed:)

Sweet! Thanks! Will look into this.

@roaminggamer I love this! I might incorporate it into one of my games

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