This is a native Android application for Ruffle.

It is in a very early stage.

Prebuilt APKs

The latest release (here) should have a few .apk files uploaded as assets.

You can try this app by downloading and installing one of those.

• For the vast majority of modern phones, tablets, single board computers, and small game consoles, you'll need the arm64-v8a version.

• The armeabi-v7a version is for older, 32-bit ARM stuff.

• The x86_64 version is for some rare Intel/Microsoft tablets and/or for Chromebooks, and/or for running on a PC on Android-x86 or in Waydroid or similar.

• The x86 version is there mostly just for completeness.

• The universal version should work on all 4 of the above architectures, but it's huge.

Build Prerequisites

• Install Android Sudio with at least the Platform SDK (e.g. version 29) and the NDK Tools (e.g. version 25).
• Ensure java is Java 17.
• cargo install cargo-ndk
• rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi x86_64-linux-android i686-linux-android

Build Steps

# substitute the appropriate location and version:
export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=$HOME/Android/Sdk/ndk/24.0.8215888/
cd app
./gradlew assembleDebug # the "release" version requires a keyfile

The final APK should be at: app/ruffle/build/outputs/apk/debug/ruffle-universal-debug.apk There are also single-arch split APKs next to it.

Opening the app project in Android Studio for development and debugging also works.

Development Tips

Set the target of rust-analyzer to x86_64-linux-android (or even aarch64-linux-android), to stop one of the NDK crates from erroring out due to compilation to an unsupported platform.

Also set the ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_NDK_ROOT extra environment variables for it to suitable values, so the C parts of the dependencies can also be built by it.

TODO

In no particular order:

• Ability to show the built-in virtual keyboard (softinput), for text input
• Controller/Gamepad input?
  • Mapped to key presses and/or virtual mouse pointer
• Own custom keyboard overlay, maybe even per-content configs
  • Not an overlay, and not per-content, but custom keyboard is there
• Navigator backend (fetch, open browser)
  • Opening links works at least
• Error/panic handling
• Loading "animation" (spinner)
• Logging?
• Alternative audio backend (OpenSL ES) for Android < 8
• UI backend (context menu)
  • Context menu works
• Proper storage backend?
• Cross-platform build instructions?
  • I think gradle should take care of it now
• Resolve design glitches/styling/theming (immersive mode, window insets for holes/notches/corners)
• Publish to various app stores, maybe automatically?
• Bundle demo animations/games
• Add ability to load content from well known online collections? (well maybe not z0r... unless?)
• History, favorites, other flair...?
• Clean up ~everything

DONE:

• Touch/mouse input
• Keyboard input: only with physical keyboard connected or through scrcpy
  • This was needed: rust-windowing/winit#2226
• Split into a separate repo
• Add ability to Open SWF by entered/pasted URL (or even directly from clipboard)
  • No direct clipboard open, but easy to paste into the text field...
• Unglitchify rendering: scale, center and letterbox the content properly
• Ask CPAL/Oboe to open a "media" type output stream instead of a "call" one
  • so the right volume slider controls it, and it uses the loud(er)speaker
  • -> solved by switching to a direct AAudio (ndk-audio) backend
• Add building this to CI, at least to the release workflow
  • This repo has its own CI setup, which builds APKs
• Simplify build process (hook cargo-apk into gradle, drop cargo-apk?)
  • cargo-apk is fine, but is only used to detect the SDK/NDK environment and run Cargo in it, and not to build an APK.
  • actually solved by switching to cargo-ndk and the corresponding Gradle plugin
• Somehow filter files to be picked to .swf
  • How well this works depends on the file picker, but it "should work most of the time"
• Unglitchify audio volume (buttons unresponsive?)
  • (pending: rust-windowing/winit#1919)
  • actually solved by switching to GameActivity instead
• Register Ruffle to open .swf files
  • How well this works depends on the application opening the file, but it "should work most of the time"
• Figure out why videos are not playing (could be a seeking issue)
  • The video decoder features weren't enabled on ruffle_core...
• Sign the APK
  • Using a very simple key for now, with just my name in it
• Support for 32-bit ARM phones
  • Untested, but should work in theory
• Support for x86(_64) tablets?
  • Sorted out
• Consider not building the intermediate .apk just for the shared libraries
  • Figured out, no intermediate .apk any more, only native libs built
• Unbreak the regular build on CI
  • No longer relevant after the repo split
• Clean up commit history of the branch
  • No longer relevant after the repo split