[xmlvm-users] Xokoban update

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Guys,

some of you may know that XMLVM features a little showcase application: 
Xokoban (sources are in xmlvm/demo/android/xokoban). We've had Xokoban 
in the Apple AppStore for over two years and Apple has just accepted an 
updated version. The visual has not changed much but the internal 
implementation has radically changed. For one, Xokoban now makes use of 
advanced Android API (activity lifecycle, layout manager, 
internationalization). One benefit of using Android's layout manager is 
that Xokoban now is a universal binary that runs on iPhone as well as iPad.

However the biggest change is that the new version of Xokoban was 
cross-compiled with the new C backend. This is a radical departure from 
the old Objective-C backend. One of the many changes is that 
applications cross-compiled with the C backend now bundle a garbage 
collector for better Java compliance. Xokoban is (to my knowledge) the 
first app that Apple accepted and that was generated with the new C 
backend. An important milestone.

The new version of Xokoban is the combined effort of many people. If you 
are on this mailing list you will know who they are. Many thanks to all 
of them!

New big changes are in the pipeline. Look forward to source-code-level 
debugging from Eclipse/Netbeans of cross-compiled Java applications.  :)

Arno

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xokoban/id322302746?ls=1&mt=8