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Bug 1563

Summary: SDL does not support Android versions older than 2.2 (API 8).
Product: SDL Reporter: Philipp Wiesemann <philipp.wiesemann>
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Android (All)   
Attachments: patch for SDLActivity.java

Description Philipp Wiesemann 2012-08-03 11:29:23 UTC 
Created attachment 918 [details]
patch for SDLActivity.java

Hello,

SDL 2.0 (HG) does not support versions of Android older than 2.2 (API 8) because it uses two newer "convenience methods" [1][2] in SDLActivity.java.

In SDL's README.android the mentioned version is 1.6 (API 4) and in default.properties it is API 5 (which is more true). Both are currently not supported.

I attached a patch which inlines both methods and makes SDL usable with older Android versions again.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getActionIndex%28%29
[2] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getActionMasked%28%29
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2012-08-03 21:05:10 UTC 
This patch is now hg changeset 0aa624a37ad4, thanks!

--ryan.