Building for the new AppleTV / tvOS

cocos2d-x C++
#110

I run this cocos2dx-helloword on tvos successful,but I find all of the label use the system font is black,setTextColor or setColor is useless,If evenryone know whatā€™s wrong is it?@netunlimited, @elvman

#111

@digitalhoax If by gamepad you mean using ā€œController::startDiscoveryController()ā€ and so on, then yes, it works. I use this to check if the ā€œmainā€ button or play/pause button is pressed (== menu button selected).

I donā€™t need to access the canExitApp variable from cocos2d-x, I use NDKHelper to call from c++ a method in AppController to change canExitApp.

#112

@kavenGw Are you using a TTF font file for your labels? If so, check if itā€™s included in the Xcode tv target.

#113

congrats to 3.10 :wink: Do you think that the tvos support will go to 3.11?

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#114

yes.

@ShunLin any objection in adding TVos support for v3.11?

#115

Will this include also JS support thus compiling SpiderMonkey with bitcode support?
More at: Help with compiling SpiderMonkey for tvOS
Thanks :wink:

#116

if we add support of tvos, it will include all the needed libraries compiled with bitcode support.

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#117

Hi guys, I still experience an issue when trying to build on my apple tv. During link phase I get ā€œbuilding for tvOS, but linking in object file built for iOS, for architecture arm64ā€
Does somebody has any idea?

#118

Did not find an issue to add this: When someone adds support for the Apple TV remote will he please add support for controller.motion.userAcceleration and controller.motion.gravity? Thanks!

#119

Our app has finally been approved for tvOS, only three month short of the initial schedule:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comet-tail/id1068440823?ls=1&mt=8

We used @elvman 's fork, thanks a lot!

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#120

Sorry to hijack this thread, but it turned up when googling for cocos2d-x and prebuilt libs and bitcode. I normally use my prebuilt cocos2d-x libs when developing games. Now I figure I should start using bitcode libs. Will I run into any problems?

#121

Hi @umai, sorry for being a bit late to reply. I am using precompiled bitcode enabled libs for the tvOS/iOS app mentioned above and it works flawlessly. @elvman provided the precompiled libs that get included when building the cocos2d-x libs. Just check out his post to this thread earlier.

#122

Do you still plan on adding tvos support in v3.11?
I can imagine that you were busy with releasing Cocos creator and also with GDCā€¦

#123

@ShunLin any update on this?

#124

Hey,

Will it be available this week by any chanceā€¦ I really want to submit my game for the applovin competition.

https://blog.applovin.com/two-weeks-until-the-deadline-for-the-tvos-contest/

Deadline is 31st March. :frowning:

Thanks

#125

Just use what is available @b12345, it works great. Especially for the competition, where you will only submit a TestFlight build and not release to thousands of users.

#126

Is the TVOS Kit freely available? How is it possible to get it?

#127

You can get it is you sign up to be an Apple Developer. developer.apple.com

#128

The tvOS 9.3 update removed notifications related to the on-screen keyboard.
see the changes here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/releasenotes/General/tvOS92APIDiffs/Objective-C/UIKit.html
Has anybody got a workaround yet?

#129

@elvman Everything works great on apple tv simulatorā€¦ but i get the following error when testing it on a ATV device

(ftbase.ios8_arm64.o), building for tvOS, but linking in object file built for iOS, for architecture arm64

Iā€™ve tried replacing the prebuilt libraries but nothing seems to work. What am I doing wrong?