Android viewer has problems...

33miles33miles Member, BASIC Posts: 71
in Working with GS (Mac)

Hi everyone! I just started using the android viewer within the past couple weeks and boy am I having issues with it. The setup was long and intricate compared to the iOS viewer although that's not what really bothered me. I'm running it on an Ellipsis 8 tablet with kitkat 4.4.2 android OS. So the issues with the viewer that I observed were 1. I could not get my project to transfer over via USB unless I disabled wifi on the device. 2. My project only works while the device is plugged in via USB and communicating with GS. When I unplugged opened the viewer and went to the recent games tab and tapped on my game the viewer instantly crashes everytime I try it. 3. Lastly (at least for now) display text does not use the font I setup in my game it seems like it defaults to Arial or something instead of using the Zapfino font I chose. :/

I'm using GS 0.13.29 mac creator and the matching viewer. Can any of you guys running the slightly newer versions of GS and the android viewer let me know if this happens to you too? I would really appreciate any feedback because I may have to move on to the latest versions if this is fixed there. Also by any chance @BlackCloakGS are you and the rest of the GS team aware of any of this? In any event thanks for listening everyone and please reply if you can! :smile:

Comments

  • GeorgeGSGeorgeGS Member, PRO Posts: 478

    The viewer is working fine for me on 13.31 connected with usb. Wi-fi support is generally pretty hit and miss with Android.

    Right now it appears all fonts map to the sans font on Android. It looks like a bug because the fixed pitch fonts should map to fixed and the serif fonts should map to serif, but I'm not seeing that happening. Either way, there isn't much font choice on Android, the list of available fonts generally matches the fonts available on IOS.

  • 33miles33miles Member, BASIC Posts: 71

    Hey @GeorgeGS :) Thanks for responding! I guess I might have to update GS and viewer then. May I inquire what device and android OS you're testing on? Thanks so much again for your info and help on this. ;)

  • GeorgeGSGeorgeGS Member, PRO Posts: 478

    The device I was using today is an older Nexus 7 with 4.4.4. 1280x800 resolution I think.

  • 33miles33miles Member, BASIC Posts: 71

    Awesome, thanks @GeorgeGS B) I'm updating now! I'll let you know how it goes. :#

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