[Ohrrpgce] Android port

[James Paige]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:16:32PM +0100, Simon Bradley wrote:
>    On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:22 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:28:10PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote:
>      > On 6 June 2013 02:19, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>      >
>      > > For people who don't have their own domain name, we can provide a
>      > > namespace like com.hamsterrepublic.ohrrpgce.games.gamename but I
>      would
>      > > also like to allow people to specify their own namespaces, so for
>      your
>      > > own game, tmc, you might choose to use
>      > > com.castleparadox.tmc.foresttemple or maybe Mogri would want to use
>      > > com.slimesalad.phantomtactics or Harlock might use
>      > > org.crithit.spellshard
>      >
>      > Is there any point to allowing customisation of namespace? I think it
>      > just has to be unique, eg a com.hamsterrepublic.ohrrpgce.games.
>      > prefix.
>      > I see that the Android documentation says "To avoid conflicts with
>      > other developers, you should use Internet domain ownership as the
>      > basis for your package names (in reverse)."
> 
>      Well, from a making-things-work perspective, no, there is no point to
>      allowing people to specify their own namespaces, but from the
>      perspective of people signing their own games and uploading them to the
>      google play store, I would like to give people that option, especially
>      for people who are going to sell their games rather than post them as
>      free apps.
> 
>      Someone can still sell their game with a name in the
>      com.hamsterrepublic.ohrrpgce.games.* namespace, but by doing so the are
>      trusting me as the owner of that domain to behave honorably about it :)
> 
>    The simplest way would presumably be to make the ohrrpgce a library
>    project and wrap it with the new namespace, I think:
> 
>    package com.newnamespace.myrpg;
> 
>    public class MainActivity extends com.ohrrpgce.games.OHRActivity
> 
>    etc.
> 
>    I believe that would work. That seems to be how these examples I am
>    looking at are set up.
> 
>    (I am actually working on an Android project right now for my day job, but
>    it's been a while and I'm a bit rusty. And someone else has already
>    written it; I'm just changing it.)
> 
>    Cheers,
>    Simon

Hmm... If that is the only way to change the namespace, then it sounds 
like having the Android SDK installed and recompiling the project would 
be required. Maybe it isn't worth it if it is that much trouble?

Even though I want people to be able to customize the namespace of their 
game, I guess that should be a low-priority goal :)

---
James