Android Support

[skullmangor]

Hello! it's me again, probably won't remember me, but I'm the guy who found out restarting the editor fixes the loading plugin error sometimes :)

anyway, I was re-visting Godot 3, and this plugin of course, but I heard that JIT support is now disabled on android? heard that in one of Love2D's forums, there was a work around I think, but is that the same case with this plugin? I would love to know because I will be targeting Android.

yours forever, GorEldeen (aka GordZen)

[gilzoide]

Hey @skullmangor, thanks for the question.

I haven't heard of any JIT support drop from Android side, and searching around the internet I also didn't find anything resembling such a thing. If this is a LÖVE thing and not about LuaJIT itself, then yes, Lua PluginScript should just work in Android with JIT enabled. Just test it out with a hello world script.

[skullmangor]

Can confirm that it doesn't work, at least on my Phone

Specs:
-Name: TECNO CAMON 30
-Model: TECNO CL6
-CPU: Helio G99 Ultimate
-Ram: 8 + 5 GB (virtual)
-Android Version: 14 (HiOS 14.0.0)

The game just instantly crashes after launch, I believe it checks if the JIT works, and if not, it just crashes out, because I tried a build without Lua plugin script and it works fine

[gilzoide]

Can you please post the crash log or any related error logs (maybe get them from logcat)? It could be about JIT, but it could just as well be about anything else. I haven't updated this package in a while, maybe it has broken in a newer version of Godot or something like that as well.

[skullmangor]

it threw an error indeed:
"OpenGLRenderer: Unable to match the desired swap behavior."

but wait, opening the GDScript version (Vanilla Godot with Lua Pluginscript not installed) it threw the same error

I'm not an Android developer, so I don't know how to debug it correctly, but it seems like I need to root my phone, I'll comment if I found anything else.

[skullmangor]

Okay so, I can't root my phone (because of some restrictions), and I couldn't get the game to run whatsoever, but I actually got it running through multiple android emulators, and it works fine, the JIT even works and no need to do jit.off(), again, I'm not a professional or into android, neither I'm into Lua or LuaJIT, I just tried it once, and it seemed easy and so much faster than GDScript, and I thought it could make it easier for me to make a more complex games without needing to use something else than Godot 3, Godot 4 has less stability for the last time I tried it, I don't know if it's better now, but I don't really trust it anymore because of how they BUMPED the roofs and left what was stable and working.

[gilzoide]

Thanks for this info, so it seems the problem is the compatibility between Godot / OpenGL ES and your device, and not with the Lua PluginScript itself. I'll be closing this issue then, thanks again for the report.