[pygame] Pygame for Android

[Tom Rothamel <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. I'm the creator of the Ren'Py visual novel engine
(http://www.renpy.org), a tool for digital storytelling. Ren'Py has
been using Pygame since at least 2004.

For the past month or so, I've been porting Ren'Py to the Android
platform. A few days ago, I had the first success. This required
porting Python and Pygame to Android. (I used an existing port of SDL
to Android.) As I don't believe I've seen a port of Pygame to Android,
I thought it would be useful if I broke out the pygame support into its own
distribution.

The result is Pygame for Android, which can be downloaded from:

   http://www.renpy.org/android-test/pygame_for_android-1.0.zip

Despite the number in the URL, this is far from a 1.0 release, having
just begun testing. There is essentially nothing in the way of
documentation or error handling - I'm releasing this publicly just to
show that the project has begun.

It requires an Android 2.0 or higher device, with working OpenGL
support. To use it, unzip the zip file, install
PygameLauncher-debug.apk on your device, and copy the pygame/ directory
to the root of the device's sd card. Then run the launcher icon. After
showing the Pygame logo for a few seconds, a small test program is
loaded and run.

The test program can be changed by editing /pygame/main.py on the
sdcard. main.py is imported as a module, and then has its main
function called - so code should live in the main function. The
main.py file has a few comments in it.

The functionality included is largely selected by what I use in
Ren'Py. Most notably, the mixer module is not included - the
android_sound module uses the Android media player code, which
potentially might use hardware acceleration.

My eventual plan for this, apart from bug-fixes and documentation, is
to put together a launcher, that allows users to select from projects
that live on the SD card.

Again, this hasn't been tested on may devices - so feedback is
encouraged. I'll try to get the full source code up shortly.


The following modules are available in this release, although many of
them have not been tested thoroughly.

android
android_sound

pygame.base
pygame.bufferproxy
pygame.colordict
pygame.color
pygame.compat
pygame.constants
pygame.cursors
pygame.display
pygame.draw
pygame.event
pygame.fastevent
pygame.font
pygame.gfxdraw
pygame.imageext
pygame.image
pygame.__init__
pygame.joystick
pygame.key
pygame.locals
pygame.mask
pygame.mouse
pygame.overlay
pygame.rect
pygame.rwobject
pygame.sprite
pygame.surface
pygame.surflock
pygame.sysfont
pygame.time
pygame.transform
pygame.version

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