MacOS App Notarization & native Xcode Archive Feature (macOS & iOS) The other platforms have kept the existing version of SDL to minimize changes as described in the introduction. But due to new OS bugs and Apple restricting once acceptable APIs in the name of security & privacy, SDL has been updated for macOS & iOS to fix these problems. MacOS App Notarization is the big change which will be discussed in the next section. But because this is a different OpenAL backend, you may want to do extra testing with your audio code to make sure things still work the way you expect. Fortunately, modern Android devices have hardware floating point, so we can move to the official OpenAL Soft implementation which now supports Android. Unfortunately, this implementation is not 64-bit clean and is effectively end-of-life. Since the very early days of Android, I’ve been using a special fork of OpenAL Soft specially intended to deal with Android and the lack of floating point in the early days.

The OpenAL implemention for Android needed to be replaced.

So Blurrr’s new miniumum Android version is now API 22 (Android 5.1). 64-bit itself has a higher minimum SDK requirement of API 21 (Android 5.0), but there was a serious bug in 5.0 which was fixed in 5.1.

Google reorganized the Android NDK quite a bit, so the build process for all of the libraries shipped in Blurrr had to undergo a build system overhaul.

However there are a few subtle changes you should be aware of. (Contrary to my expectations, I learned the hard way that brand new 32-bit Android devices are still sold in major stores.) 32-bit armeabi-v7a and x86 are still included. The latter is useful for Android Emulator testing, though as always, it is best testing on a real device. It contains 64-bit binaries for both arm64-v8a and x86_64. It should be easy to use, and is pretty much just a recompile and ship new version on your part. Hopefully all will just work, just as before.

So without further adieu, hit Purge, then Generate, and then build your project. In addition, because this release was already long overdue, Raspberry Pi and Swift compilers are untouched this released and planned for the next. So the next release will look at updating more things. However, an aggressive attempt was made to NOT change too many things because for those wanting to add 64-bit Android builds, the better thing is to simply recompile and not worry about other things breaking. There are also a lot of smaller fixes and changes under the hood to support these things. Native Xcode Archive support for submitting apps to the App Store or for macOS Notarization.

macOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13 & Xcode 11 support.

As described in the previous Status Update, a new maintanence release is out.

Android emulator for mac catalina