Converting from an ios app to android - help?

**assentec** · 19th June 2014, 01:17 PM

I have only have a brief look into this, but i resaved as android directly to see what would work on android - and all i get is a black screen or it crashed on my S2

Is there a set of actions or things that won't work on android. Once I remove all ios only extensions from the app should it work fine on android (in theory?)

I am also using the array object which seems to have issues or need to be set up differently to ios, could this be causing the app to crash when it loads?

Thanks in advance, ideally I'd like to not build the app up ground the ground up for android where possible.

**Jeff** · 19th June 2014, 01:26 PM

Make sure you have put on the beta version of the Android runtime.
Fernando has been keeping up with changes in Android and the good old Black Screen of death was happening on some Samsung devices with the release version of the export module.

**DaveC** · 19th June 2014, 01:36 PM

the array can cause a crash if you're not using the Android Object to find the directory it's stored. Check out this example to show how the array is handled differently across runtimes.. it's a minor hassle, just something you have to keep in mind.

Saving Arrays.mfa

**assentec** · 19th June 2014, 01:45 PM

Awesome I'll have a look into both of those tonight and see what I can do

Would having ios objects in there cause a crash on its own?

**Jeff** · 19th June 2014, 02:31 PM

If the object isn't supported then the APK should have an error before its even built.

**Fernando** · 19th June 2014, 03:00 PM

No, you may have flash and iOS only objects and the application should not crash.

**assentec** · 19th June 2014, 03:45 PM

Hmm maybe its the array that caused it to crash then, both of the apps i was trying to convert used arrays. I'll look into it tonight anyway.

Would it be permissions?
I have to call the web using the get object, and use the location object too. if the wrong permissions were set up would this cause a crash?