First alpha version released

EgonOlsen · April 02, 2010, 06:40:37 PM

Quote from: raft on April 02, 2010, 06:24:36 PM
quake3 was using skeletal animation if i remember correctly. it runs ok

No, md3 is still keyframed. But it seperated the model into sub-parts (head, torso,...) and maybe there was a basic skeleton to connect those parts, but the actual animation was keyframed.

raft · April 02, 2010, 06:58:04 PM

mm, you are right. but still there is animation and it performs quite well

i've just discovered we can profile Android apps within Eclipse

i'm not good at reading profiling results, but seems as with animation most of the time is spent in nio buffer operations. if i got it correct, once direct nio buffers are filled, it's only passing a pointer to native code. so i suppose you are right, JIT can dramatically reduce time of passing data to native code

EgonOlsen · April 02, 2010, 10:43:45 PM

....i hope so.

I didn't know that you can profile Android apps with Eclipse. Do i have to install something or does this work with the Android plugin for Eclipse out of the box?

raft · April 02, 2010, 10:52:41 PM

just out of the box

make android|devices view visible and you will see profiling option. seems as only available with actual devices..

zammbi · April 12, 2010, 10:27:55 AM

Finally got my Milestone

Installed the sample on the download page works great.

36-56 fps
Av 50fps.

EgonOlsen · April 12, 2010, 12:55:04 PM

Not bad. Have you tried raft's bones example too?

EgonOlsen · April 12, 2010, 11:36:23 PM

Quote from: zammbi on April 12, 2010, 10:27:55 AM
Finally got my Milestone

Which Android version is that? 2.0 or 2.1?

zammbi · April 12, 2010, 11:57:26 PM

2.0. This version of the milestone does not have the 2.1 update yet.

zammbi · May 12, 2010, 02:50:21 PM

Seems some good news in 2.2: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/11/exclusive-androidpolice-coms-nexus-one-is-running-android-2-2-froyo-how-fast-is-it-compared-to-2-1-oh-only-about-450-faster/

EgonOlsen · May 12, 2010, 04:21:47 PM

Their server seems to run on 2.2 too...it's faster than the database:

Code Select


Error establishing a database connection

zammbi · May 12, 2010, 05:02:28 PM

Working fine for me atm.

EgonOlsen · May 12, 2010, 05:22:44 PM

Yep, works fine now.

EgonOlsen · May 12, 2010, 05:36:04 PM

Results look promising. However, older phones like mine will never see an official update to 2.2. So you either have to drop support for them or still limit yourself to something that works reasonable well on these devices.

zammbi · May 12, 2010, 06:19:43 PM

Yeah true. Though a lot of phones are getting the 2.1 update which is slowly being handed out. Droid Eris for this week. I got mine a few weeks back.
So it will also take a while for 2.2 to be handed around.

2.1 is spreading to the masses(32.4%) but the current stat's still show a lot on 1.5/1.6 however: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html

fir3d · May 13, 2010, 01:05:09 AM

I heard that 2.2 was supposed to end the fragmentation and bring most of the phones up to speed. No idea but nexus one is safe for sure