Tic-80: Switching between apps turns TIC-80's screen black on Android

[Spreit]

[pcornier]

Same thing for me on Oneplus 6. And everything is tinted blue in TIC-80.

[nesbox]

yes, reproduced on my side

[BraininaBowl]

The blue tint can be fixed by turning on "disable HW overlays" in development settings.

[pcornier]

@Quistnix thank you so much! I confirm, HW overlays turned off fixed the blue tint.

[pcornier]

I noted that SDLActivity.onNativeSurfaceChanged() generates an error "draw context is NULL" on resume. It looks like the context is lost somewhere.

[pcornier]

Any progress on the black screen problem? Sorry to add some pressure on this but that's a real blocker for me. I've stopped using TIC-80 for months now.

[alexamy]

Have black screen when switching apps on android 9, tic-80 0.70.7 pro.
Really annoying.

[fadookie]

Cross-posting my observations from #451

Not sure if this is the same issue I'm having but it appears as if any time TIC-80 is backgrounded, upon resuming it shows a black screen. This makes it very difficult to use as an editor. It does seem that sound continues to play and it responds to the back button.

Device: Google Pixel 1st Gen
OS: Android 9.0

I agree that this renders the app more or less unusable on android for the purpose of making carts.

[Raphytator]

Same problem with an Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 using android 9

[RandomErrorMessage]

I was excited about playing with this on my phone, but I'm also affected with my LG G4.

[nesbox]

fixed with the PR #974

[pcornier]

@nesbox are you able to publish a new version (pro) with only that fix included and before the new official release? I'd love to see TIC-80 back on my phone! 😅

[nesbox]

Huh, a bit difficult for me because the current version builds on CI servers when previous I built manually and have to configure my system a lot to do it again.
Please wait for the release, sorry :)

[pcornier]

No problemo, thanks for your quick answer!

[StinkerB06]

@nesbox are you able to publish a new version (pro) with only that fix included and before the new official release? I'd love to see TIC-80 back on my phone!

Have you seen this? :
https://builds.tic.computer/master/2019.12.17/android

[BraininaBowl]

@nesbox are you able to publish a new version (pro) with only that fix included and before the new official release? I'd love to see TIC-80 back on my phone!

Have you seen this? :
https://builds.tic.computer/master/2019.12.17/android

That doesn't seem to be the pro version though. Or at least, my additional banks are missing.

[nesbox]

@BraininaBowl yes, we deploy only non-pro version to the server

[StinkerB06]

@nesbox are you able to publish a new version (pro) with only that fix included and before the new official release? I'd love to see TIC-80 back on my phone!

Have you seen this? :
https://builds.tic.computer/master/2019.12.17/android

That doesn't seem to be the pro version though. Or at least, my additional banks are missing.

You'll need to compile TIC-80 PRO yourself. Follow the build instructions on the main readme.md, and make sure that the flag for building the PRO version is set.

[pcornier]

Thank you @StinkerB06 ! I created a Dockerfile to compile the Android version: https://gist.github.com/pcornier/eb7a4c612b0ba176d1b4c14bd12a2cb7.

I confirm that the bug is fixed on my phone :) yay!

[chexmo]

this still happens (using a moto e5)

[nesbox]

@chexmo The issue is fixed on 0.80 version, what version do you use?