Building for the new AppleTV / tvOS

cocos2d-x C++
#101

Thanks for your work, could you help me with this? Im running elvman test app but Im not getting any touch events.

#102

Try calling startDiscoveryController in your first scene. I had same problem and this fixed it.

#103

@ricardo will the tvOS support be added to cocos2dx v3.10, i really need this!

#104

@b12345
v3.10 no, but most probably 3.11.

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#105

@ricardo Thanks, ill be definitely looking forward to that. :smile:

#106

Thanks, I tried but no luck.

Edit:
Man someone should have replyed that touches were disabled on elvman’s cocos2d 3.9 … just check
CCEAGLView-tvos.mm, all that should have been under #pragma mark CCEAGLView - Touch Delegate is deleted.

Just use hawkwood’s 3.8 or copy the touches methods from CCEAGLView-tvos.mm

#107

@ricardo
I tried to build using by current v3 branch, that is cocos2d / cocos2d-x, cocos2d / cocos2d-x-3rd-party-libs-bin.
But I got errors there is “no CoreMotion.Framework” on building to real machine.(deploy to AppleTV)
I want to deploy to real machine.
Can I build and deploy to real machine, not simulator?

#108

yep, thanks for reporting it. I’ll take a look at this later. Kind of busy with other stuff at the moment.

#109

@netunlimited, @elvman do you have gamepad support with your solution to quitting the app via the menu button working? My RootViewController is a GCEventViewController instead of the standard UIViewController, so my app doesn’t quit.

btw. how do you access the canExitApp variable from your coocs2d-x code?

#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 what’s wrong is it?@netunlimited, @elvman

#111

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

I don’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 it’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 “building for tvOS, but linking in object file built for iOS, for architecture arm64”
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?