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Tyrranus
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I almost always ignore rpgmaker titles as they tend to be lazily made and not fun to grind through
FIXED.
I tested it on Android and it was crashing for me as well, even though the package was successfully compiled.
Anyway, I have recompiled it and tested it and it is working now, so re-download an Android version from the opening post.
However, I can't get the Android version of v0.5.5 of the game to run, even though there is no problems in compiling it. The apk installs and then simply closes before after the "Ren'Py" loading screen appears.
I've spent hours trying to figure this out but nothing is obviously wrong. This is on v8.3.7 of Ren'Py. If the tools aren't working, I won't be able to offer a developer-original Android version after v0.4.0.
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TigerWolfe
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How large is the APK, APKs larger than 2gb rarely run, so maybe that's the issue? Also depending on how you've handled the file system in android, sometimes you have to grant the APK write permissions (usually I've only seen this if the save location isn't in the default Android>Data>appname system folder) manually, rather than receiving a popup requesting them.
May I suggest asking on the
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. It's home to Renpy engine questions.Btw. I just wanted to say that I really like your games. The art style (stellar incognita) is unique and the different paths make it really enjoyable. I kinda had to get used to the art, but I really liked it eventually. Thx for your efforts.
I spoke too soon.
I tried a new Android version of the latest update for the game and it failed.
1) Build is successful - no error messages.
2) APK installs with no issue.
3) Click on the icon on an Android device and the RenPy loading screen starts.
4) Program abruptly closes at the RenPy loading screen.
There has to be some kind of log, debug mode or otherwise error output. Tough to help without access to any of it.
I mean... It did work at some point right? If you really wanna go the trial and error route, you could try just removing the changes until it works again and see what causes the crash...
or you could try the Lemma forums as suggested above.
Good luck.
There were no error messages at all, but then I found something when I went to "Clean" up the Android packaging project. It seems RenPy couldn't find some images to clean up, but they were clearly included in the package. The issue may have been that for images, I use a lot of nested folders and the directory tree can get quite deep. I note that with some programs, once a directory address gets long enough, programs can no longer understand and find them.
So I cut the image directory tree in half and made it more shallow, having a Pt 1 and Pt 2 of the images. That seems to have worked.
We'll see when I try and make the next build if that was the issue.
Again... it's quite tough for me to help without having any access to it, but...
since you mentioned the directory tree. Android is based on linux and although I dont think it should matter, spaces in names are usually frowned upon and can sometimes cause issues. So you might want to do something like "heroes_of_celtica" instead of "heroes of celtica".
Don't know if this applies to you.