What the frack? Why would such an option even be in there...I see no reason for it to be accessible...
On Mar 12, 5:32 am, Farproc <[email protected]> wrote: > "Spare Parts" the one from Google? Stock in emulator? > > On Mar 12, 1:56 pm, Robert Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know several of you wrote your apps and games before 1.6 was out or > > before you had a trusty N1 or Droid to test on. This led to many apps > > that rely on compatibility mode, that is, a width (when portrait) that > > is always 320 to make things work out. > > > For 3D games, this made our games continue to work because when the > > games are run full resolution, our 1.5-compliant textures get scaled > > up automatically and become non power-of-two, causing white or black > > wherever a texture should be drawn (and then users complain that our > > games are nothing but white!) > > > Well I wasn't very worried about it and I still have a few games in > > compatibility mode but recently a user contacted me, telling me that > > one of my games (Light Racer 3D) and a few other 3D games were all > > white on his Droid. I asked him if he had ever run any kind of tweak > > utility and he said that when he first got his phone, he installed an > > app called "Spare Parts" and played with some settings on it. > > Apparently one of the settings disabled compatibility mode and runs > > everything full-res, breaking many of our apps and games. Of course > > users don't know that's what they are doing. They think they are > > somehow unlocking their phone's potential that their evil carriers > > didn't give them access to. If only they understood! > > > First of all, if you're the author of "Spare Parts", that's a bad > > idea. Please don't give users that option. Nothing good can come of > > it. > > > Second, since there will probably always be some kind of tweak app out > > there that allows for disabling compatibility mode, it's in your best > > interest as a developer to update your old apps and make them work at > > every resolution. Counting on compatibility mode in the long term is > > a bad idea I think. > > > That's all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
