Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath ported to Android

[Dennis S. <de...@va...>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:49 AM, David Bruce <dav...@gm...> wrote:

> It looks great as a start, with the most important issue being the small
> on-screen keyboard size, and also the lack of alpha for the transparent
> parts of the comet images.

I just released an update that increased the size of the on-screen
numeric keypad.  I'll play around with what the best size may be some
more, but the one seems better.

I see what you're saying about the comet images and transparency.  I
hadn't even noticed that!  I'll look into it some more.

> I've been mostly inactive with tux4kids the last few months due to my real
> job, and our website is woefully outdated, but I have to say I am really
> happy to see this and would like to see an optimized, official android port
> at some point.  When I update our site, I'll put in a news item with a link
> to your port.

Sure, you can use the code I put up on Github as a basis if you want (
http://github.com/dennis-sheil/commandergenius/tree/mathgame ).  I'd
be happy to help out however you want to do it.  The last update to
Google Play went out an hour ago, I haven't pushed the new code up to
Github yet, but I will.

68% of people who downloaded the app still have it on an active
Android device, a very high ratio for Google Play's Android Market.
Inevitably this percentage falls as people get new phones and so
forth.

Some things I changed in the update:

* As I said, bigger numeric keypad
* Fix problem with volume keys, now works normally
* Pause now works on some devices (hitting the menu or search button
pauses the game on some Android devices)

Another big thing I did was I ported the game to Spanish.  This is a
little difficult as Android's libc is bionic and does not support
setlocale, which gettext needs.  I believe they are geared more toward
ICU for localization.  Anyhow, my port to Spanish is somewhat kludgey,
in some places, very kludgey.  But it seems to work.

Not only did I translate strings over, I did some images as well, such
as from images/status and images/title .  For the Spanish version, I
even removed "Enter" from the keyboard and replaced it with a crooked
arrow.

I'll probably do this in other languages that there are translations
for as well - Portuguese, Hungarian, Bokmål, Swedish, Finnish etc.

-- Dennis

> On Jun 14, 2012 12:51 AM, "Dennis Sheil" <de...@va...> wrote:
>> I did a (partial) port of TuxMath to Android.  It is live on the
>> Google Play Android Market
>>
>> http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panaceasupplies.android.games.math