MonoGame - porting to android

[Mac Morrison]

So I've ported my game to android with realtive ease (minus the financial pain of the xamarin license)

but I've one big issue - app resuming
how have people dealt with this - its one setting on windows phone (and i believe it works the same on iOS - not done that port yet)
but on android it seems to start from scratch every time you navigate from the app.

mac.

 

[peterdroid]

you mean when you resume game.. the game always start from start ?
first u need check this image

also check this link
Pausing and Resuming an Activity | Android Developers

regards, Peter

 

[Mac Morrison]

you mean when you resume game.. the game always start from start ?
first u need check this image
View attachment 55807
also check this link
Pausing and Resuming an Activity | Android Developers

regards, Peter

yes ive been looking slightly baffled at these diagrams and tutorials
but was rather hoping for a 'magic bullet'
that doesn't require me to serialise over 100 data structures.

 

[peterdroid]

yes ive been looking slightly baffled at these diagrams and tutorials
but was rather hoping for a 'magic bullet'
that doesn't require me to serialise over 100 data structures.

You'll need to overwrite

onPause()

,

onResume()

. with code to save and restore your game when your app loses focus.
check this link android - onPause/onResume activity issues - Stack Overflow
and than this Saving Activity state in Android - Stack Overflow