Re: [xmlvm-dev] Xokoban update

[Paul P. <bay...@gm...>]

Big news indeed!  Congratulations!

Paul

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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