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What about Google Android?

by Christer Landstedt · in General Discussion · 01/29/2009 (6:21 am) · 10 replies

Hi I have a question. Whit the resent release of iTorque that allows you to develop Torque engine based game for the iPhone. I was wondering if the Torque development team has any planes to do the same thing for Google’s mobile platform Andriod or are you already working on such a port?
Might we be able to see such a project in the future?
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#1
01/31/2009 (2:12 pm)
I'm going to guess that Android is not as major a platform as the iPhone is shaping up to be... therefore 'no' is my speculation on this.

Torque 3D Owner Brett Seyler
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#2
02/01/2009 (6:13 pm)
I'd originally hoped that Android would be a good platform for Torque games. It looks like, with Android being Java-based, Torque would have to be ported entirely to Java though :/ I don't know anyone here who's at all anxious to do that. OTOH, Windows Mobile would be pretty easy, so if we see some devices emerge that look like they'd be good for gaming, and if there's demand for it, we'd likely make that available.

Torque 3D Owner Brett Seyler
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#3
02/01/2009 (6:15 pm)
FYI...

Quote:Android includes a set of core libraries that provides most of the functionality available in the core libraries of the Java programming language.

http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html

Torque Owner Lee Latham
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#4
03/09/2010 (7:51 pm)
Anybody heard any more about an Android port of Torque 2/3D?

Android seems to be getting more popular since the first post, and personally I'm also attracted to the more open platform. It'd be great to do Torque on it.

Torque 3D Owner Paul Mason
#5
03/10/2010 (5:52 am)
It seems that Unity 3D v3.0 will support Android...

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#6
03/15/2010 (8:29 am)
We have not made any final decisions on Android/Pre/BB/etc ports at this time.

Torque Owner Lee Latham
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#7
03/15/2010 (4:47 pm)
A lot of the Asian phones are starting to come out with it. FWIW I'm starting to think Android is going to take over the world.

Zimzala Studios
#8
04/21/2010 (6:58 pm)
/Agree

Torque Owner Lee Latham
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#9
04/21/2010 (7:02 pm)
Also, unlike Pre/BB, Android is Linux. So you do a fair amount of killing two birds with one stone :-)

I always like that when I'm making development decisions.

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#10
04/22/2010 (11:04 am)
Yeah, Android is everywhere:
ob.structive.net/apad.jpg
Doesn't mean it's good, though…the specs on that device above are pretty terrible.