Distorted view on emulator

[sphere]

Hi,
maybe i asked this before but it is rather annoying (read something more heavier here)....
Anyone knows why LC apps always look distorted on the Android Emulator? i'm using an x86-64 Android 9 emulator now, but it happened also on the previous types.
Other apps look good on the emulator.
The apps look good on real device. But for development it would be very convenient when it looks how it should be on the emulator. On iOs emulator these artifacts are not present.

NOT ok: double-partly images

NOT ok: double-partly images thru a button

OK:

Is there a solution for it?
Thanks!

[sphere]

Nobody ?

[jacque]

I stopped using the emulator years ago, it's much faster to just plug in the phone. But your images look like an emulator bug to me, especially since the problem doesn't happen on a real device.

[sphere]

I stopped using the emulator years ago, it's much faster to just plug in the phone. But your images look like an emulator bug to me, especially since the problem doesn't happen on a real device.

Yes but the x86 emulator is real fast to deploy a test on.
The emulator could be the culprit, but i'm not yet 100% convinced, becasue other apps (non-lc) do look good, no strange artifacts.

Noyr yhis is on win10. I could test on Mac or Linux with the Android emulator, not tried that yet.

[SparkOut]

I don't know what to suggest for a definite solution, but I guess it is worth asking:-
Whether you have set accelerated rendering on the stack?
Whether you have made any compositing settings?
Whether you have set "dynamic" or "static" layerMode on any objects?
Whether you have made any fullscreenMode settings?

[sphere]

I don't know what to suggest for a definite solution, but I guess it is worth asking:-
Whether you have set accelerated rendering on the stack? ---> Yes i have
Whether you have made any compositing settings? ---> Nope
Whether you have set "dynamic" or "static" layerMode on any objects? ---> only where datagrids are involved
Whether you have made any fullscreenMode settings? ---> I always use exact Fit (not always ok but...)

Thanks, as you see i've putted my answers within the quoting

[SparkOut]

Ok, out of that I would suggest trying to see if setting accelerated rendering as false makes a difference in the emulator.
If that doesn't help, I would clutch at the last straw and turn off fullscreenMode temporarily and try another mode after that.
If none of the above makes a difference then I would probably have one last go at something like uninstalling the emulator and installing it again, before giving up and testing on real device and not using the emulator, or at least ignoring the screen rendering issues.

[sphere]

Thanks Sparkout, i will some suggestions. I'll be back

[jacque]

You can also try forcing a redraw of the card:

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set the backcolor of this card to the backcolor of this card 

I use that when LC messes up the card draw, though since it only happens in the emulator it may not be worth the trouble. It won't hurt anything though.

[sphere]

I did all suggestions, except for re-installing the emulator. Because it was the same on previous emulators and on another one i use.

Thanks Sparkout and Jaqcue.
Also in the settings of the emulator, none of the display settings makes any difference.

So i will test the emulator on Linux and on MacOs, lets see

[sphere]

So i tested on Mac and a Android 9.0 Emulator:

No strange artifacts.
Note that this is on the same PC hardware and a Hackintosh.

So it seems to me a combination of LC and the Android Emulator on Windows.

And since other apps than LC look ok, where is the cause of this fault?
Maybe i can contact Google expecting no answer, but one never knows.

[sphere]

For Windows i reinstalled Bluestacks.
Here the apps are looking good.
Via CMD dos-prompt i entered this:

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adb connect localhost:5555

so now Livecode can see Bluestacks too, and i can deploy a test directly from LC. (Google's emulator is seen on port 5554)

I installed also Google and Text-to-speech as my app uses speech. Follow this https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueStacks/com ... nal_guide/ on how to enable it in Bluestacks correctly.

Now i have to find a way to get Dutch as nr1 language, because Bluestacks seems to refuse and thus is the English voice speaking Dutch. which sounds funny.