(02-18-2018, 12:16 PM)Helios Wrote: Because those projects have developers that care enough to find and implement workarounds for shitty drivers.
No. That becomes a nightmare on who should get paid to do $x. And nobody wants to deal with that.
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.
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 Heck, even the person who originally made the port, who hasn't worked on Dolphin in 2 years still gets emails of users being obnoxious.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?
I personally think the dolphin team should consider charging for the app and making more efficient build changes. Part of the reason many people bought snapdragon 835 phones or what contributed to the Galaxy s8s huge success was the ability to bring GameCube and Wii to their mobile phones. Part of the reason why people choose Android over iOS is mainly for the emulators and gaming. There are other benefits as well like the camera and hardware. It's a little disheartening to hear that most dolphin developers push Android to the side like it's not worth looking over. The dolphin dev team can always keep their full time gigs and keep the Android as a part time gigs that is paid! The new emulator damonps2 is crap and yet gets so many sales because they understand Android is exponentially growing in fan base with emulation as part of the reason for that. It is also getting increasingly harder to pirate apps on the Google play store because of improved license security. Side loaders and apps like parallel space or lucky patcher would not work with a lot of paid apps on the play store.