curse of mi problem

anthony001 · Post by **anthony001** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:12 pm

Hi guys, i have a problem wherein i selected te dir of the game but it still says cannot find the game.

tsoliman · Post by **tsoliman** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:45 am

Did you install the right plugin? It is a separate package. It is the SCUMM engine plugin.

fabio · Post by **fabio** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:08 pm

Why the Android ScummVM is splitted with so many plugins? Would not be possible to provide a single binary?

Thanks!

tsoliman · Post by **tsoliman** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:48 pm

Because some devices don't have enough memory.

fuzzie · Post by **fuzzie** » Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:54 pm

Yeah, it's because on older Android versions (pre-2.3 and buggy unofficial 2.3 builds) the whole binary+plugins has to fit in the internal memory, and a monolithic build is almost 20mb at this point.

Judging by the current Google Play statistics, we can probably safely ignore that group of users by the time of the next release, though.

A potentially annoying problem for the future is that an apk containing builds for arm+armv7+mips+x86 is more than 40mb, and Google limit apk files on Google Play to 50mb maximum, and don't allow per-architecture apk files. But in the worst case, we can provide a small number of plugin packs.

fabio · Post by **fabio** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:33 pm

fuzzie wrote:Yeah, it's because on older Android versions (pre-2.3 and buggy unofficial 2.3 builds) the whole binary+plugins has to fit in the internal memory, and a monolithic build is almost 20mb at this point.

Judging by the current Google Play statistics, we can probably safely ignore that group of users by the time of the next release, though.

A potentially annoying problem for the future is that an apk containing builds for arm+armv7+mips+x86 is more than 40mb, and Google limit apk files on Google Play to 50mb maximum, and don't allow per-architecture apk files. But in the worst case, we can provide a small number of plugin packs.

What about something like UPX? At a rapid Google search however I didn't find an Android executable compressor, dunno if it's available.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:33 pm

fabio wrote:What about something like UPX? At a rapid Google search however I didn't find an Android executable compressor, dunno if it's available.

UPX and similar executable compressors will probably not help in this case, as the executable will need to be uncompressed in memory anyway