(02-18-2018, 11:26 AM)biomedical1010 Wrote: But regular android games from the playstore don't have this problem, including the ones that max out performance.
Because those projects have developers that care enough to find and implement workarounds for shitty drivers.
Quote:Also what if Dolphin guys set up a patreon or go fund me, they can turn it from volunteer job to full time job if enough people pay up.
No. That becomes a nightmare on who should get paid to do $x. And nobody wants to deal with that.
Quote:Or better yet, make Dolphin a paid app. And a free version with ads and limited features.
This is a more reasonable suggestion, but it's not like nobody couldn't just go compile master and get the full version, but I imagine most android users aren't smart enough to do so. This would open up the possibility of a third party compiling builds for free that we don't control so we have no idea what they put in the builds. That's messy too.
Quote:The only thing I don't understand is why they have so little interest in Android compared to other platforms.
Because no developer that contributes to Dolphin finds working on Android very enjoyable. It doesn't matter if Android has a lot of users. That doesn't make a developer magically care. We have a couple java devs that are at least interested in making the UI less bad at least, but they come and go and nobody can be bothered to review their work because we all just look at it and go "meh, android."
Also, look at this forum. Look at the kinds of posts that are made here and how quickly any developer that contributes code to making Android better gets users annoying them about fixing things. Heck, even the person who originally made the port, who hasn't worked on Dolphin in 2 years still gets emails of users being obnoxious. When you consider all this, is it really that surprising that no developer stays interested for long?