What hardware features will I have access to in the Android version of Corona? (i.e. Accelerometer, GPS, etc)
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Hi,
right now you can only adress Android 2.01 devices and higher with it. The Android version of Corona SDK is on the level of version 1.0 of Corona. To my knowledge JET audio is not supported yet.
About the hardware features, the following is directly from the release notes of the SDK 2.0 beta 2:
Compass (Android)
* Compass (aka “heading”) now works.
The following items are not yet implemented for Android:
* Orientation events.
* Camera
* Network
* GPS
* Multiline text fields
* Text input with keyboard
* Web popups [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 890 reply_id: 2061[/import]
I assume that hardware like Camera, Network, GPS, Orientation, Accelerometer, etc will be *eventually* supported? Any timeline on them?
And obviously, multiline fields and keyboard input would prob be quite important for most apps… so I’d think they’ll also get supported soon…?
Thanks - I’m pondering whether to jump in and get the license during the discounted period or not - I’m primarily interested in Android support (for now) though… but if the above features won’t be supported for a year, it’d be a waste for me…
-taka
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Accelerometer is already in. Orientation is in the beta 2. [import]uid: 54 topic_id: 890 reply_id: 2232[/import]
Huh??? The release notes of beta 2 said, that Accelerometer events are NOT supported in beta 2! [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 890 reply_id: 2248[/import]
Oops. We’re both wrong! Accelerometer has always been there, and isn’t mentioned in the release notes for beta 2 at all, but should work fine. But “orientation” isn’t in (meaning change of orientation events) yet, but Compass (heading) is. Sorry about the confusion.
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Ok, 1-1. I thought orientation is accelerometer. My fault. [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 890 reply_id: 2257[/import]
Yeah, orientation uses the accelerometer… but it also does some other stuff including switch the views around, and that’s what isn’t quite in Corona for Android yet. [import]uid: 54 topic_id: 890 reply_id: 2263[/import]