Tnx Rob for helping us. We really appreciate it.
We have also developed some native Android apps in the past, so we know what a pain fragmentation can be.
I came across this thread today that may be of interest here:
http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/35504-corona-app-not-visible-in-google-tv/
There are several useful bits in there including some settings useful for STB’s. Also, a note that if the software isn’t built with the NDK, we may not work correctly and such. Give that a thread, try some of the ideas. You may have to wait until we get more Ouya support in for dealing with TV’s as well.
Tnx for the info, this could be a related issue. Will monitor that thread.
My occasional black screen problem at startup got solved by delaying the first scene display. I think I will stop using corona sdk in my second game.
timer.performWithDelay(1000, function()
storyboard.gotoScene(“home”)
end)
I experienced the same thing and narrowed it to one thing. I was launching the Corona Simulator from LuaGlider, running through the app, then building for release. LuaGlider was setting a debug flag as the first line in main.lua. So by looking at the crash logs I could see an error related to CiderDebugger on line 1.
The solution is to launch Corona directly when doing release builds to prevent this from happening.
Cheers
We are developing games for a partner, that will run on a Android STB (Set Up Box), connected to a TV. The HW should be compatible, it has Android 2.3 and ARM V7 processor. But all they get is a black screen. Here are some Logs:
06-27 12:51:01.751: D/AndroidRuntime(9223): \>\>\>\>\>\> AndroidRuntime START com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit \<\<\<\<\<\< 06-27 12:51:01.751: D/AndroidRuntime(9223): CheckJNI is ON 06-27 12:51:01.751: D/dalvikvm(9223): creating instr width table 06-27 12:51:01.901: D/AndroidRuntime(9223): Calling main entry com.android.commands.am.Am 06-27 12:51:01.901: I/ActivityManager(1088): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity } from pid 9223 06-27 12:51:01.921: D/AndroidRuntime(9223): Shutting down VM 06-27 12:51:01.921: D/dalvikvm(9223): GC\_CONCURRENT freed 102K, 69% free 324K/1024K, external 0K/0K, paused 0ms+0ms 06-27 12:51:01.941: D/dalvikvm(9223): Debugger has detached; object registry had 1 entries 06-27 12:51:01.951: I/ActivityManager(1088): Start proc com.friskyPig.tiltThePig for activity com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity: pid=9232 uid=10017 gids={} 06-27 12:51:02.021: I/ActivityThread(9232): Pub com.friskyPig.tiltThePig.files: com.ansca.corona.FileContentProvider 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/liblua.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/liblua.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): No JNI\_OnLoad found in /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/liblua.so 0x40513708, skipping init 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libjnlua5.1.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libjnlua5.1.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libjnlua5.1.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Shared lib '/data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libjnlua5.1.so' already loaded in same CL 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: I/dalvikvm(9232): threadid=1: recursive native library load attempt (/data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libjnlua5.1.so) 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libopenal.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: I/OpenAL\_SLES(9232): alc\_opensles\_init 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libopenal.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.041: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libmpg123.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libmpg123.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): No JNI\_OnLoad found in /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libmpg123.so 0x40513708, skipping init 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libvorbisidec.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libvorbisidec.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): No JNI\_OnLoad found in /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libvorbisidec.so 0x40513708, skipping init 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libalmixer.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libalmixer.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): No JNI\_OnLoad found in /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libalmixer.so 0x40513708, skipping init 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Trying to load lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libcorona.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.051: D/dalvikvm(9232): Added shared lib /data/data/com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/lib/libcorona.so 0x40513708 06-27 12:51:02.181: I/ActivityManager(1088): Displayed com.friskyPig.tiltThePig/com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity: +255ms 06-27 12:52:26.411: D/dalvikvm(1088): GC\_CONCURRENT freed 721K, 48% free 3968K/7559K, external 2225K/2779K, paused 2ms+3ms
Here are some GL specs they sent us:
06-27 16:40:00.290: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): SurfaceFlinger is starting 06-27 16:40:00.510: I/-LIBHPD-(1088): opening /dev/hpd... 06-27 16:40:00.510: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run. Initializing graphics H/W... 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): using (fd=36) 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): id = tccfb 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): xres = 1280 px 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): yres = 720 px 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): xres\_virtual = 1280 px 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): yres\_virtual = 1440 px 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): bpp = 32 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): r = 16:8 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): g = 8:8 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): b = 0:8 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): width = 203 mm (160.157639 dpi) 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): height = 114 mm (160.421051 dpi) 06-27 16:40:00.550: I/gralloc(1088): refresh rate = 60.00 Hz 06-27 16:40:00.570: D/libEGL(1088): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLES\_android.so 06-27 16:40:00.580: D/libEGL(1088): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL\_mali.so 06-27 16:40:00.610: I/-HDMI\_APP-(1088): int hdmi\_display\_output\_set(char) hdmi\_mode\_idx:125 automode:0 06-27 16:40:00.630: D/libEGL(1088): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1\_CM\_mali.so 06-27 16:40:00.630: D/libEGL(1088): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2\_mali.so 06-27 16:40:00.680: D/-HDMI\_APP-(1088): HDMI VIDEO: mode:1 resolution:11 colorDepth:2 colorimetry:0 colorSpace:0 pixelAspectRatio:1 06-27 16:40:00.680: D/-HDMI\_APP-(1088): HDMI AUDIO: inputPort:0 outPacket:0 formatCode:1 channelNum:2 sampleFreq:1 wordLength:0 i2sParam:0 06-27 16:40:00.680: I/NCEC(1088): NCECStart 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): EGL informations: 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): # of configs : 27 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): vendor : Android 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): version : 1.4 Android META-EGL 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): extensions: EGL\_KHR\_image EGL\_KHR\_image\_base EGL\_KHR\_image\_pixmap EGL\_ANDROID\_image\_native\_buffer EGL\_ANDROID\_swap\_rectangle 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): Client API: OpenGL ES 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): EGLSurface: 8-8-8-8, config=0x12 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): OpenGL informations: 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): vendor : ARM 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): renderer : Mali-200 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): version : OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): extensions: GL\_OES\_byte\_coordinates GL\_OES\_fixed\_point GL\_OES\_single\_precision GL\_OES\_matrix\_get GL\_OES\_read\_format GL\_OES\_compressed\_paletted\_texture GL\_OES\_point\_size\_array GL\_OES\_point\_sprite GL\_OES\_texture\_npot GL\_OES\_query\_matrix GL\_OES\_matrix\_palette GL\_OES\_extended\_matrix\_palette GL\_OES\_compressed\_ETC1\_RGB8\_texture GL\_OES\_EGL\_image GL\_OES\_draw\_texture GL\_OES\_depth\_texture GL\_OES\_packed\_depth\_stencil GL\_EXT\_texture\_format\_BGRA8888 GL\_OES\_framebuffer\_object GL\_OES\_stencil8 GL\_OES\_depth24 GL\_ARM\_rgba8 GL\_OES\_EGL\_sync 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): GL\_MAX\_TEXTURE\_SIZE = 4096 06-27 16:40:00.700: I/SurfaceFlinger(1088): GL\_MAX\_VIEWPORT\_DIMS = 4096
Any ideas on what’s wrong?
unfortunately, the forum seems to be cutting off your log and I can’t see past the right edge. I’ll see if they can fix that. But I’m not seeing any Corona messages there either. Is there more of the log?
Suggest posting this in the Glider forum. I suspect this issue might go unnoticed by M.Y. Developers and yet it is important for them to take notice and hopefully fix. Thanks
That’s all what they have sent us. I’ve event written a totally minimalistic app, that should just display some text on the screen and even that gives them a black screen.
I guess something on their Android STB is not compatible with Corona SDK. It’s would be a great business opportunity for us, If we could get our games working on their device.
Is there any thing more you can tell me about this before I ask the engineers? Like the device maker, etc.
The second “log” shows CPU and GPU specs for the device. I will ask our partner for the name of the device manufacturer, but I guess it’s a OEM product, that gets re-badged . We are willing to do more test and send you more data, just tell us what you need.
Have Corona build apps been tested on any STB connected to a TV?
I’m not sure. There are a billion android devices and the focus has been on mobile devices. The STB market is really new. We are looking at things like Ouya and Gamestick. The thing with things like STB’s is they may be “Android” but that doesn’t mean they are Google Android. They could take the Open Source version and make changes to it to suit their needs and in the process create incompatibilities.
I had asked the engineers to look into this, but with the 4 day weekend, they had a bunch of stuff to wrap up, so it may be next week. If we don’t hear back from them, by mid-week ping me again and I’ll bring it back up to them.
Tnx Rob for helping us. We really appreciate it.
We have also developed some native Android apps in the past, so we know what a pain fragmentation can be.
I came across this thread today that may be of interest here:
http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/35504-corona-app-not-visible-in-google-tv/
There are several useful bits in there including some settings useful for STB’s. Also, a note that if the software isn’t built with the NDK, we may not work correctly and such. Give that a thread, try some of the ideas. You may have to wait until we get more Ouya support in for dealing with TV’s as well.
Tnx for the info, this could be a related issue. Will monitor that thread.
I’ve heard from one user having this problem on the iPad. Thing is - I’ve tested on all iPad models with no problems and have plenty of downloads for this app on iPad with no other complaints. Apparently the app was working fine and has just stopped working now for this user - launch image then black screen and quit. Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour where an app that used to work just starts doing this?
I’ve heard from one user having this problem on the iPad. Thing is - I’ve tested on all iPad models with no problems and have plenty of downloads for this app on iPad with no other complaints. Apparently the app was working fine and has just stopped working now for this user - launch image then black screen and quit. Anyone else come across this sort of behaviour where an app that used to work just starts doing this?