Porting a game to android

fenryll

Hi,

I have more and more android users asking if there is a way to play my game on their devices...

so I took a look on the web to see if it is possible to avoid restarting everything from scratch and I found the apportable website (www.apportable.com), where one can apparently converts iOs games to android...

Does anyone here already gave some tries ? Is it as magic as it looks ?

My game is built with sparrow, some native UI components and a specific library to manage client-servers interactions (http://blog.themidnightcoders.com/index.php/2011/07/18/our-rtmp-ios-communication-library-gets-its-own-product-page/)

I would have to purchase an Android tablet to start to test, so I need more information before to move..

Thanks

dpizzle

I've spent a few hours on getting apportable to work, but no luck. Just a black screen with the demo project. If anyone has had success, I'd love to hear about how they did it. Someone in the apportable forums was having the same issue, so probably no easy solution at this point.

fenryll

Thanks for your sharing.

I tried to mail them to explain my case and get their advice: 0 answer.
Then tried a second mail asking them for a quote if they would do it for me: 0 answer.

So I'm going to abandon this for a while 🙂

xidadesign

Hi, I had the same problems.
I couldn't get it to work and the support didn't answer 🙁

Daniel

We are currently in contact with the company behind the Stella SDK, and they are considering adding support for Sparrow. I can't promise anything yet, but keep your fingers crossed! That might be the solution to convert your Sparrow powered apps for Android.

xidadesign

That would be very nice 🙂

dpizzle

Wow, that'd be amazing. Please keep us updated Daniel.