In this release we’ve added gamepad support for HTML5, along with bindings for some common controllers in the default.gamepads file.
We have also added the possibility to get notified when a gamepad is connected or disconnected at runtime. There are two new gamepad triggers available to be bound in your input binding file, gamepad-connected and gamepad-disconnected, which can be listened for in the on_input callback.
On macOS and Windows we have added support for gamepad “hats” (also called dpad input in some circumstances). This fixes an old issue where the input from the dpad on a PS4 controller connected to macOS previously wasn’t able to be bound.
Android resources
We’ve improved a bit on how the Android resources are found from extensions.
Previously, the recommended way was to put it directly under the <extension>/res/android/res folder.
However, to more easily support multiple packages we check the folder for other folders, to see if they in turn are android assets.
You cannot mix the two ways in the same extension. See example
Bundle resources
The bundle resources are now (finally) a comma separated list of folders.
To make the reasoning clear about what resources are Android resources and which are bundle resources, any resources put in the <extension>/res/<platform>/res folder
are not considered for bundling.
Engine
DEF-3931 - Added: Added gamepad support for HTML5
DEF-3349 - Added: Added support for gamepad connect/disconnect at runtime
DEF-3708 - Added: Add support for gamepad “hat” inputs
DEF-3949 - Fixed: Memory leak in gui.animate callback
DEF-3813 - Fixed: Better error messages when bundling if icons are missing
#4186 - Added: game.project now has two more options android.minSdkVersion and android.targetSdkVersion
#4209 - Fixed: Crash in ares_addrinfo_callback
#4182 - Fixed: The Android dmengine.apk app is not orientation locked
#4172 - Fixed: The sys.load_resource()now returns tuple (resource, error_message)
Editor
#4103 - Added: Modernized look of a few more dialog boxes.
#4105 - Fixed: Text boxes now show the actual, scaled size of the node instead of the bounds of the text.
#4122 - Fixed: Malformed .script_api files in dependencies no longer cause build errors.
#4132 - Fixed: File not found build error after removing dependency from project.
#4164 - Fixed: Bad error message if a connection error occurs during project import.
#4184 - Fixed: Exception when creating a new file after opening a project whose folder casing changed.
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Since the update to the new editor version 1.2.157 my bundle resources defined in the game.project are ignored. So my adaptive icon for Android (https://github.com/britzl/defold-adaptive_icons) is no longer included in the APK.
Can you tell me what the new path must look like for it to work again?
@johann.ulbrich I’m sorry to hear that this is no longer working for you. It really still should work the same way. What’s the path you have set for bundle resources?
@johann.ulbrich Sorry to hear you got trioubles with bundling now.
Here’s a setup from a project we have, which I tested with and the apk seems to be as expected.
My configuration looks exactly like yours. When I build it in editor 1.2.156, the folders are included. If I build it in the new editor, these folders are missing.
I build the same project each time. The only difference is the Facebook extension. I have to remove it in 1.2.156, otherwise I get an error when building.
Faced with same problem when bundle for HTML5 platform on 1.2.157 Win10 Editor
Looks like replacing “/folder” with “folder” (without leading slash) can solve it.
Was in this version the searching in game.project introduced too? I think it appeared after the update recently it’s a great feature! I won’t need to switch to atom or slide through the whole list again! thanks!
it’s a great feature! I won’t need to switch to atom or slide through the whole list again!