[Ohrrpgce] Android port

[Simon Bradley]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:44 PM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
Ah, yes. Maybe not ideal. It might be possible to change it with something
like proguard instead, in the compiled version.
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