Html5 on Mobile Devices
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| Hello, I have a question I can't seem to find and answer for. Has anyone made an html5 game with monkey that runs smoothly on mobile decives ( android and ios ). I am making a simple paper toss type of game and already got touch events and fullscreen ( like a webapp ) working, but performance is really poor, at least on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Would it be wise to make the game with monkey or should I just make a new version with pure javascript from 0? Thanks! |
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| I just finished another game that runs fine in HTML5 on the desktop browser, but I have to use Monkey to convert it to native apps for each device, as the HTML5 version in the mobile browser seems to only run at about 30FPS when I'm looking for 60FPS. |
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| Performance of mobile browser depend a lot on the company who created these browsers and the device itself. |
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| Give it a try http://kstadler.ch/mobile/ they work well on the iPad at least. |
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| Btw, why don't you want to develop natively for mobile? |
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| @MikeHart It's for a client, I told him the benefits of native performance but he insisted on making games for mobile browsers, so it has to be html5. @NotSure Thanks! I'll test them when I get a decent connection. Did you get the games to run on full screen on mobile devices ( no browser bars )? Right now I only got it full screen on an android phone, tested it on an ipod touch and it didn't work. Thanks! |
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| Canvas is very slow compared to the DOM - I noticed a module in Monkey for doing DOM stuff, but there's no documentation for it. Apps would run a lot faster if they were using the DOM where relevant instead of doing everything on the canvas. |
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| Leon, from what I read on the inet is that DOM is only faster when you have to draw just a few elements. |
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| @Notsure: The description for 500 - ships to colonize is the same as "Galactic airport". |
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| At the end I got to run it as a webapp. Runs pretty decent on iOS devices, It actually now detects the orientation of the device, if it's installed on the device and some other stuff. For android I'll just make an apk. Thanks for the help :) |
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| Leon, from what I read on the inet is that DOM is only faster when you have to draw just a few elements. That could be the case in some scenarios because the browser has to manage the DOM, so it depends how you have your code. If you are creating a game framework that manages objects within the game world/stage, then you'd be recoding what the DOM already is, but within Javascript and I'd assume this is slower than using the DOM as the game world/stage. If you are just drawing to the canvas without doing data management for objects, canvas might be faster in this scenario. It also depends on the browser itself too I guess. |
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