It seems that fluddokt has been even busier than I have lately, which is why the Android version hasn't been getting as many updates. (I don't blame him, since porting my changes can't be very interesting...) But it's all open source, so really anyone can take over if they want to.Howl wrote:
I think you got the point wrong here. There is one guy working on the PC version, which is opsu! itself, and another one who is working on opsu! for android. I think euphyy (the creator and mantainer of the PC version) would rather carry on working on it for the PC version, while leaving everything related to the android version to fluddokt, the guy working on the android port.gintoki147 wrote:
I love this project.
Personally, I think you should drop desktop support and focus only on the Android version. Too bad it's almost impossible to play streams on a touch screen. D:
A technical issue is the way the Android version is written. To actually get the program running on Android, fluddokt had to switch the game engine from Slick2D (simple, dead, and desktop-only) to libGDX. But instead of porting the source code, which would've taken a very long time, he's "faking" the Slick2D API and replacing the implementation of all referenced methods with libGDX code. It works, as you can tell, but comes with these large problems:
- If someone updates the Slick2D code and calls Slick2D methods not yet "faked", all of those methods need to be rewritten as well (which isn't always easy, or even possible).
- If anyone continues developing the libGDX code with pure libGDX calls, the source code will be a mess of mixed Slick2D/libGDX and merging changes from the Slick2D code will get significantly harder.
- Some desktop code needs to be rewritten to work at all on Android, which makes things even more complicated.
A more practical problem is that I don't actually own an Android device, so I'm not easily able to test anything for it.