cocos2d for iPhone

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   gaminghorror
   Member

   Hi folks,

   i'm currently making an offer to port an existing iPhone app that i'm finishing just now, it's similar to 51 Japanese Characters but has more play value. It's a kid's application of a popular brand that allows you to build characters and have a speaker pronounce the properties of the character in 2 languages.

   The port target platform is of course the iPad. Now i'm wondering, i've heard that cocos2d already runs on iPad but what are the caveats? Are there any specific issues with cocos2d, anything that is currently not working on iPad or has some flaws? Things i would have to do myself? Is it really as simple as changing the target platform and hit the Build & Go button?

   I'm still using cocos2d v0.9 - is it helpful or even necessary to upgrade to v0.99 to do iPad development?

   Secondly, what should i be expect to spend most of my time on when doing the port? I fear i'm looking at it a bit too naively - adjusting some of the assumptions i made about the fixed screen size and generally re-layouting all buttons and sprites - that should be it, right? Or what else could i be getting myself into?

   Of course i will receive new artwork with higher resolution, in case you're wondering.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   napierzaza
   Member

   I made my existing app into an iPad app and everything worked, save the fact that everything was in the lower left of the screen.

   If you remember, I made a post about modal views, and I'm starting to think that there could be an issue that the openGL view is cocos is iPhone sized which makes the modal views off to the left.

   I should mention to you that it appears that at LEAST the simulator for the iPad is slow. I have had about 32 largish sprites on the screen and the frame-rate drops to 12fps, with nothing moving and no timers whatsoever. I of course still don't know if it's because the SDK is still BETA or if it's true.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   gaminghorror
   Member

   Are you on a Mac mini? I suppose with 5 times the size of the screen it the graphics rendering requires 5 times the fill rate, and my guess is that's where the Mac mini's graphic processor doesn't shine.

   But good to know that everything is just running fine after converting the project.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   napierzaza
   Member

   MacBook Pro. Either way there's no way of knowing. I asked about the FPS thing and it turned into FUD and flaming so there wasn't much found out. Unless Steve Jobs is on these forums we don't know anyone who's used one.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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