How to render jme contents into a custom GLSurfaceView in Android

Ubuntu_Twenty · January 31, 2023, 10:20am

Hello, how can I render jme Rendering contents into a custom GLSurfaceView in Android. I don’t want to use AndroidHarness because it renders full-screen but i don’t want to render in full screen i want to render it into a specific dp (like 300dp height and width) GLSurfaceView.
I hope you guys understand what I mean to say.
Thanks in advance for helping me.

Ali_RS · January 31, 2023, 10:44am

Hello,

Maybe JmeSurfaceView is what you are looking for:

github.com

jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine/blob/7a5d085ff5274b651401d1460a7bf72abd006ac4/jme3-android/src/main/java/com/jme3/view/surfaceview/JmeSurfaceView.java#L77


      
          
          
/**
           * <b>A RelativeLayout class holder that wraps a {@link GLSurfaceView} as a renderer UI component and uses {@link OGLESContext} as a renderer context to render
           * a jme game on an android view for custom xml designs.</b>
           * The main idea of {@link JmeSurfaceView} class is to start a jMonkeyEngine application in a {@link SystemListener} context on a GL_ES thread,
           * then the game is rendered and updated through a {@link GLSurfaceView} component with a delay of user's choice using a {@link Handler}, during the delay,
           * the user has the ability to handle a couple of actions asynchronously as displaying a progress bar on a SplashScreen or an image or even play a preface game music of choice.
           *
           * @author pavl_g.
           */
          public class JmeSurfaceView extends RelativeLayout implements SystemListener, DialogInterface.OnClickListener, LifecycleEventObserver {
          
          
    private static final Logger jmeSurfaceViewLogger = Logger.getLogger(JmeSurfaceView.class.getName());
              /*AppSettings attributes*/
              protected String audioRendererType = AppSettings.ANDROID_OPENAL_SOFT;
              /*using {@link LegacyApplication} instead of {@link SimpleApplication} to include all classes extends LegacyApplication*/
              private LegacyApplication legacyApplication;
              private AppSettings appSettings;
              private int eglBitsPerPixel = 24;
              private int eglAlphaBits = 0;
              private int eglDepthBits = 16;

Ubuntu_Twenty · January 31, 2023, 10:53am

Ok i seen that, so how i render things into that view like Simple application has root node we can attach something into it and it renders.

Ali_RS · January 31, 2023, 10:59am

I have not used it before, but maybe @Pavl_G can help you.

Ubuntu_Twenty · January 31, 2023, 11:00am

How do i contect him?

Ali_RS · January 31, 2023, 11:44am

He will respond to you here after reading your post. Also, you may want to take a look at this example:

Ubuntu_Twenty · January 31, 2023, 2:36pm

Yes I got what I want to do. Thanks

Pavl_G · January 31, 2023, 2:42pm

Hello there,

@Ubuntu_Twenty JmeSurfaceView utilizes an android GlSurfaceView internally outside of an activity context, so you can embed jme renderer as an android native UI component, if that is your target then, there are a lot of examples in addition to the one linked by @Ali_RS.

But, JmeSurfaceView uses a SimpleApplication, so you have to learn jme to create your game.

One thing to note, that JmeSurfaceView has a package migration on jme-3.6.0 from com.jme3.app.jmeSurfaceVIew.JmeSurfaceView to com.jme3.view.surfaceview.JmeSurfaceView (the examples linked above are updated with the snapshot version from my local disk, you need to change 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT to 3.6.0-beta1).

Ubuntu_Twenty · January 31, 2023, 2:44pm

Ok, thanks @Pavl_G and @Ali_RS
I got it.