I am trying to make a simple 3D game for Android, and I want to use jMonkeyEngine. Can I do this? How? Can someone show me an example?
Thanks!
According to their blog Android support is coming with the upcoming jMonkeyEngine3, so it looks like you will have to wait for their next official release.
Though it's a old question to answer but I think many of us still looking for the solution.
jMonkeyEngine for Android:
The answer is Yes! You can use jMonkeyEngine3 (JME3) to develop 3D game for Android.
How to start:
Android integration and deployment in JME3 is nicely described here!
Example
You can find some good beginner JME tutorial here with sample/example code. You can use these examples for Android.
I struggled with this until discovering this video with no audio...
Running jME3 on Android
1) Right Click your project and Select "Properties" from the menu:
2) Check the "Enable Android Development" check-box
3) Select the appropirate "Android Target"
4) Select Android as your target from the drop down:
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i am working on designing Android App UI and i wonder if it is possible to export Pixate prototype to android studio ? have anyone tried or having an idea how to do that ?
As mentioned in their website(Pixate.com) to someone's question, they have mentioned that , for now its just a prototyping app , which means you just design it and show how it is to others and currently there is no feature to export it to android studio but they have mentioned that they are thinking to add that feature as it helps the developer a lot, being a developer myself , I was also looking for exactly what you are looking , Adobe is developing a product with code name Project Comet which is going to be a competitor for Sketch 3 which is also a awesome prototyping software but its available only for mac, I hope adobe will be launching the Project comet to Windows as well and it would be of great help if they include the feature of exporting the code so that we can easily desgin and do the animations in these softwares and export them along with the code so that we can import in our IDE as this would allow us to spend more energy on back end rather than on front end ...
By saying visual I mean if there is a sort of option of seeing how the app might look on your phone while developing it using android developer tools kit downloaded from android website? I hope you got the question clear
Yes. You are building the layout with XML.
While you are developing you can switch between XML view and a graphical view.
This is in eclipse. Android studio hase something similar.
There is an layout preview in Eclipse where you could choose from a variety of predefined "devices". Also you could add your own.
I have downloaded all documentation with SDK manager help. But how can I open this documentation and the samples of code in Android Studio after downloading?
According to Android Studio Tips and Tricks, you can press Ctrl+Q to show docs for selected API under Windows or F1 under Mac.
For the samples , you can use eclipse to export to Android Studio.
First you need to make sure the documentation is added to Android Studio.
Go to File -> Project Structure. Under the Platform Settings heading, add or select an Android Platform. Go to the Documentation Paths tab and make sure the path to your SDK's documenation folder is added there - it should be [SDK]\docs\reference, where [SDK] is the full path to your SDK installation. If it is not there add it manually.
Once this is done, use Ctrl+F1 while your cursor is on the item you want to display help for.
The samples have not been ported to Android Studio yet, but I'm sure google will get around to it at some point. For now follow the instructions in the comments by androidika (you will need a copy of Eclipse installed).
In Android Studio you need to download javadoc dependency which is part of sdk.
If you enable documentation to appear while writing code in android studio by navigating to
File-> Settings-> Editor-> General-> Other
and
selecting(check box) Show Quick documentation on mouse move, you would get irritating after some time because it will come out automatically you when you would be writing code.
So, I think we should go to alternative ways by using Ctrl + Q(on Ubuntu at least I am not sure of other environments). This way when you would feel help you can simply use the simple command.
I was trying to find this setting in the latest build of android studio, and after wasting a lot of time I finally found out that now the ide automatically finds the documentation, which can be opened with shift+f1 on a method.
Now a days once you Import project in Android studio, it will automatically shows docs. But on mouse hover you want to expand it.
Docs hover page was simply resized very short like the above, it looks like docs is not avail. But when I Carefully moving the mouse down to the bottom of the hover page allowed me to resize it.
few days ago, when I was debugging an Android project under eclipse I've found some great functionality: "All instances..." and "Instance count". I wanted to share my findings with rest of my colleagues, but none of them had this functionality in their eclipse install (we all use eclipse 3.7).
What's even more weird now I'm also missing this functionality.
As far as I can tell this functionality is build within eclipse from version 3.3 and available to projects using Java 1.6 and above as mentioned here and here (we're using 1.6).
See bottom of this link to see what functionality I'm talking about. It even has it's own shortcut in options (ctrl+shift+n) so I think there must be a way to use it again.
I was looking for it while debugging and while the debugger was in "stopped" state.
Anyone can help me put eclipse in right view/perspective/state to see this functionality again?
EDIT
Here is the documentation entry from eclipse help page: link
Thanks for any suggestions,
kajman
After some more digging I came to following conclusion:
DalvikVM does not support "instance retrieval".
On eclipse help page mentioned in EDIT section it written:
This command is only available if the Java virtual machine you are currently using supports instance retrieval.
Maybe there is an option to enable this option in DalvikVM, but I doubt it unfortunately.
Also when debugging on phone "Drop to frame" functionality is missing.
I'd like to start looking into the Android source code. I'd like to start with the easiest place. Which is the easiest place to start with - any application / framework? Please suggest.
A simple google search would provide you appropriate results
Information on Android Open source website
http://source.android.com
Android Source code
https://android.googlesource.com
In the Resources section of the Android SDK site there are some tutorials that will walk you through some source code. Here is a link to the tutorial on creating a notepad application
I think it is better to start with any application first because that way you will know how it is applied.
Start at the Android | Developer Website: http://developer.android.com/.
Under the "Resources Tab", you'll find useful example applications.
Make sure you installed Eclipse and the Eclipse Android Plugin. Than you ca create a new android project (File > New... > Other... > Android Project) in Eclipse and check "Create Project from exisiting Example". The Api Demo Application is great.
You should watch some Videos of Romain Guy, too, he's a coding genius.