Help with Android needed

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Re: Android developer needed

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toby109tt wrote:
because the official one has bad controls and has many other issues.
performance is the big issue!
I have render distance of 4 chunks and the game still lags like crazy
I use a Google Nexus 7 2013 edition and a Samsung Galaxy tablet and both are struggling to even get 10 frames.
You can disable all shaders, all particles.
Hmm, you gived me an idea!
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Re: Android developer needed

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Reedych wrote:
toby109tt wrote:
because the official one has bad controls and has many other issues.
performance is the big issue!
I have render distance of 4 chunks and the game still lags like crazy
I use a Google Nexus 7 2013 edition and a Samsung Galaxy tablet and both are struggling to even get 10 frames.
You can disable all shaders, all particles.
Hmm, you gived me an idea!
Minetest looks pretty ugly with those off.

Aren't the enhancements of Minetest 0.5 Dev supposed to carry over to the Android version as well? Even then, you still need a developer to maintain and improve it. Maybe proller would be a good choice? He no longer has Freeminer to work on, and that was ported to Android before its development was ceased.

At this point, the Nintendo Switch would seem very tempting, but that would likely be dancing with the devil right there.

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Re: Android developer needed

by paramat » Post

> performance is the big issue!

Low performance is inevitable due to the low power of the device, not a fault of the code. The code is mostly identical to the desktop code but with adjusted settings.

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Re: Android developer needed

by Brian Gaucher » Post

Is there still a significant need for help with the Android port.
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Re: Android developer needed

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Brian Gaucher wrote:Is there still a significant need for help with the Android port.
Always.

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Re: Android developer needed

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Is Android Studio required to compile Minetest android?
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Re: Android developer needed

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No, you can't even compile minetest using android studio. You use a makefile instead
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Re: Android developer needed

by ANAND » Post

I'd love to help but I don't know much in this area. I hope I'll learn more in the coming days, and be worthy of testing Android-related PRs :)
paramat wrote:Low performance is inevitable due to the low power of the device, not a fault of the code.
Poor performance is indeed an issue, but that's not just due to the device and it's low specs. I'm sure shaders (and rendering in general) can be optimized to a large extent.
paramat wrote:The code is mostly identical to the desktop code but with adjusted settings.
That is a problem by itself. ;)

An Android game is designed for phones and is very optimized due to the fact that all devices running it are very weak and low-spec. But MT uses the same code for its Android port which is obviously targeted at full-fledged computers. This means performance would obviously suffer on phones, and other weak devices. While tweaked settings reduce the performance hit to a certain extent, they worsen the user experience, and also don't tackle the root cause.

Due to the severe shortage of dev time, we can't afford to maintain a codebase for Android, that's separate from the main one, but we can surely optimize stuff here and there, which is bound to improve performance on all devices across the board.
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