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    Is it okay to use Gideros Studio v2015.03.22 still?

    mejonmejon Member
    edited June 2015 in General questions
    Hi,

    I just installed Gideros Studio v2015.03.22, because it is the only version that works before v2015.04.04. I was wondering if I can still develop apps using this version.
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    • mejonmejon Member
      edited June 2015
      All versions before and including v2015.03.22 work anything else does not.
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Hi @mejon,

      It is always okay for anyone to use the gideros version that work best for them.

      If you experience issues from v2015.04.04 and onwards, it means that your graphic card doesn't support OpenGL shaders (we call this OpenGL 2 internally though this is not true for desktop versions). v2015.03.22 was the last to use only basic OpenGL (fixed pipeline).
      There was some discussions in the Core Team about dropping GL1 support. We agreed that GL1 only cards are mostly obsolete now, in fact GLES 1 phones are no longer in use, or represent an inisgnificant part of the market.

      However recent changes in Gideros may make it possible to embed both versions, GL1 and GL2, so as to provide a fallback mode when running on old systems. Of course that would want to benefit from this fallback cannot use advanced features brought by GL2.
      But is it worth the work ?

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    • mejonmejon Member
      Hello, I have the Nvidia Quadro FX 2500M graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1. I just can't seem to update it. By using an older version of Gideros, would there be any problem making an app for android?
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      No you won't have any problem to make an android app with an old gideros, just probably less features and depending on the versions some bugs not yet fixed.
      BTW you can still use a recent version yet not use the desktop player and develop directly on android player...

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    • mejonmejon Member
      So I can download the latest version of Gideros Studio: v2015.06.30, and use android player? How would I use android player?
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      There will be an android apk in Gideros installation directory, which you can install on your phone and then launch it and launche the code from Gideros Studio
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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    • mejonmejon Member
      ok thanks @hgy29, and @ar2rsawseen. I have android player working.

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