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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Jul, 2018
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  I had no idea they shipped it yet. It's not on the release schedule. I was planning on adding official support once it shipped. Are you sure it works with all flags reset to default?

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 24 Jul, 2018
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  This is caused by buggy third-party addons. Please report the problem to the addon developer.

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  • 24 Jul, 2018

  Closing, please don't cross-post.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 24 Jul, 2018
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  Fullscreen is not supported by iOS Safari. I think I read it might be supported in iOS 12 on iPads only (not iPhone), but we'll see when it's out.

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  • 24 Jul, 2018
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  None. The condition has been moved from System to the Platform Info plugin in the C3 runtime. You'll notice once you set the runtime to C3, you can't find 'Is on mobile' in the System plugin any more. However it can still use the System 'Is on mobile' condition in existing projects for backwards compatibility.

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  • 23 Jul, 2018
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  Please report any such issues to the issue tracker: github.com/Scirra/Construct-3-bugs/issues

  It's very new so might take a few releases to get right!

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  • 23 Jul, 2018
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  Construct's exports do not specify any specific plugin versions by default, so everything should just work. If you're using third-party addons you'll need to contact the addon developer for support.

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  • 23 Jul, 2018
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  By default, Construct does not use a wake lock. If you switch to a different app or lock the device Construct will suspend the game so that it becomes completely inactive. (If you want a wake lock it's currently only supported by third-party addons, and yes, tends to needlessly hammer battery life.)

  Games are generally pretty battery-intensive: during gameplay the screen is continuously on, and both the CPU and GPU are working pretty hard to run the game, so a lot of the system hardware is powered up. I'm not sure there's much to be done about that. I suppose it could drop to half-framerate mode, but that makes the game look less smooth, and HTML5 doesn't have a good way to do that yet.

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  • 23 Jul, 2018
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  I think a BSD license is the best choice to give best flexibility over what can be done with the code (if you are happy for it to be used in commercial software etc.)

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  • 23 Jul, 2018
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  Plugin doesn't support this project's cordova-android version. cordova-android: 6.1.2, failed version requirement: >=6.3.0

  It sounds like you specified a specific version of cordova-plugin-file which is incompatible with the Cordova version.

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  • 21 Jul, 2018
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  This contradicts other reports that it happens in APKs (webview) or Instant Games (also webview). AFAIK Samsung Internet updates don't affect the webview... I'd guess that there was some other update that happened to coincide with the Samsung Internet browser update.

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  • 20 Jul, 2018
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  Google have responded to that issue and are asking for more details, so it would be good if anyone else affected can pitch in to help answer, and as ever, coming up with a minimal repro.

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  • 20 Jul, 2018
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  Kyatric filed an issue with Google here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=865946

  It might be useful for anyone else who's been affected by issues with WebGL 2 on Android to post details there.

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  • 20 Jul, 2018
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  The C2 runtime throws that warning to catch accidental use of return value; instead of ret.set_float(value);. All that compatibility code will also have a high performance overhead. You have to change the rest of the addon anyway, including the way the expression methods are declared - since you have to do all of that, I don't think it's a big change to replace ret.set_float(value) with return value;.

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  • 20 Jul, 2018
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  We can't really afford to support plugins which go round tinkering in the guts of the engine. It's all internal engine details and we can change any of that code from release to release so it could make your plugin broken at any time. Also the principle of scanning existing events to detect things is a bizarre design and literally nothing else in all of Construct works like that, so I would strongly recommend you find another way to design your addon.

  FWIW there is nothing Android-specific at all in the event system.