Nexus 7 Tablet Support?

It looks like the Nexus 7 is gaining steam, approaching 1 millions tablets sold each month now. With the holiday season approaching, it seems like this number will increase. I know support for the Nexus 7 has been discussed before and is on the roadmap.

Any update on when we might expect support for this?

Here is the article that talks about Nexus 7 sales numbers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/asus-details-nexus-7-sales-numbers/2012/10/31/b3d53ef8-2356-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html

Thanks,
Paul Osburn [import]uid: 7101 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 332555[/import]

Do you mean as a skin in the simulator ?

My son has one and my apps run perfectly on it.

Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129442[/import]

I’ve got a Nexus 7 running Jelly Bean, and when you move a mapView around, the screen goes black. [import]uid: 79933 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129447[/import]

For the most part things work on the Nexus 7. There isn’t a skin for it yet, which I would like to see. Corona Labs is fixing bugs as fast as they can. You need to make sure that problems get reported so they can fix them. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129465[/import]

Do you mean as a skin in the simulator ?

My son has one and my apps run perfectly on it.

Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129442[/import]

I’ve got a Nexus 7 running Jelly Bean, and when you move a mapView around, the screen goes black. [import]uid: 79933 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129447[/import]

Yes, Corona supports the Nexus 7. We have 2 of them in our office that we test with.

That said, there is 1 major Corona bug that affects all Android tablets (except Kindle Fire HD) running Android 3.0 or higher operating systems. If your app support both portrait and landscape orientations, then Corona will display the contents of the screen in the wrong position *after* you change orientations. The reason this happens is because the bottom navigation bar moves with the screen, causing the aspect ratio of the app window to change (ie: resize) and not merely swap the width/height like how it works on all other devices. Corona’s core rendering system does handle this resize event correctly at the moment.

The only work-around is to set up your app with a fixed orientation such as “landscapeRight” and “landscapeLeft”… or “portrait” and “portraitUpsideDown”.
We plan on addressing this issue sometime in the next month, after our upcoming release. It’s too risky to make a core code change at the end of our release cycle since it would affect iOS too.

mpappas, we’ve received your bug report and we’ll look into it once we’ve switched back over to bug fixing mode. That issue sounds like a hardware acceleration bug that we have to work-around. That particular issue should theoretically happen on all Android 4.0.3 or higher devices. We thought we’ve fixed them all, but it looks like we missed that one. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129486[/import]

For the most part things work on the Nexus 7. There isn’t a skin for it yet, which I would like to see. Corona Labs is fixing bugs as fast as they can. You need to make sure that problems get reported so they can fix them. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129465[/import]

Yes, Corona supports the Nexus 7. We have 2 of them in our office that we test with.

That said, there is 1 major Corona bug that affects all Android tablets (except Kindle Fire HD) running Android 3.0 or higher operating systems. If your app support both portrait and landscape orientations, then Corona will display the contents of the screen in the wrong position *after* you change orientations. The reason this happens is because the bottom navigation bar moves with the screen, causing the aspect ratio of the app window to change (ie: resize) and not merely swap the width/height like how it works on all other devices. Corona’s core rendering system does handle this resize event correctly at the moment.

The only work-around is to set up your app with a fixed orientation such as “landscapeRight” and “landscapeLeft”… or “portrait” and “portraitUpsideDown”.
We plan on addressing this issue sometime in the next month, after our upcoming release. It’s too risky to make a core code change at the end of our release cycle since it would affect iOS too.

mpappas, we’ve received your bug report and we’ll look into it once we’ve switched back over to bug fixing mode. That issue sounds like a hardware acceleration bug that we have to work-around. That particular issue should theoretically happen on all Android 4.0.3 or higher devices. We thought we’ve fixed them all, but it looks like we missed that one. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 32555 reply_id: 129486[/import]