Desktop Dungeons hits Android and iOS on May 28!

[chandl34]

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No, I'm not saying that. I don't own the Android or iOS apps, but according to the people in this thread, the Android app can be put in the background safely (in most cases). The Android developer would have had to disable the default behavior, making it so the Activity is not destroyed when the device is rotated or the app is put in the background. Otherwise, storing/restoring the Activity state, as I'm describing, would already be implemented. By not implementing it, he missed an edge case: Android taking the app out of memory to reclaim resources.

[berpdreyfuss]

[dislekcia]

Activity state stuff is automatically handled by Unity AFAIK. The game handles being switched away from gracefully in whatever state the game is currently in. Nothing can prevent the game being nuked by memory reclamation though, that has nothing to do with "Activity state". To restart an in-progress run after the game has been nuked by the OS, we'd have to defensively save some sort of game state to disk and then, when the game is restarted, check that file to see if the game should be in a dungeon or not. Theoretically, this is possible, but it's a massive amount of work that would have delayed the game's release by 4-6 months.

Nothing is easy and all the decisions you make as a game developer are apparently wrong, according to random people on the internet. Fun job!

[chandl34]

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