Forge Android App: 11-13-2016 Alpha 1.5.58.002

[agentbarker]

Not sure who to thank, but I am very new to forge for android. All I have to say is THANK YOU. I am 33 and have played magic for about 18 years. (On and off) This is amazing. Despite having to tool around looking for properly formatted images to dl and save to my phone, forge is an incredible app. VERY excited at the prospect of online play. The quest mode is my fav now and I have also drafted once or twice. The ONLY think I can think of as an option (not forced) would be landscape mode with the player stats vertically along left or right side (another option) to allow more horizontal room for card viewing. Still, whoever is responsible, THANK YOU. Knocked it out of the park.

[bevryde]

The UI changes are very well done. I like it this way.

And the best: Suddenly Forge runs much faster and smoother on my Sony Z1. Feels like my CPU got boosted and is 3x as fast as before. It's incredible! I always had some lag in Forge menus and card display, now menus instantly and cards almost insta appear.
Must be the big OS update, I received Android Lollipop yesterday. Maybe it has better memory management or something like this.

As for the "Test deck" bug, how are you selecting Random User Deck in the first place? That's not an option from the deck manager screen.

Oh I meant "custom user deck" (ofter choosing # of opponents), if I chose only this, match didn't start. I tried it often.
But it works now. Maybe it's also because of my OS update?

Is there a bug in Gauntlet mode? First time want to try this. I do not find a way to select a deck. E.g. in custom Gauntlet mode. Arrow on the top left just returns to prev. screen.

[johnny5ive]

I really like the random deck generator. I mainly use Forge to test EDH decks against the random decks. Overall I'm impressed but I wonder if it it'd be possible to make it better. For example, sometimes I see the AI playing some really terrible cards. I'd like to be able to train the AI. To have an option when they play a card to blacklist it from future random decks. I don't know how much extra work this would cause or if it'd be worth it but as a non developer my thought is that you could eventually aggregate all the cards that users have blacklisted and with the crowdsourced data teach the AI to build better decks.

I'd also be happy if EDH was a format option under the main screen's deck editor.

[drdev]

And the best: Suddenly Forge runs much faster and smoother on my Sony Z1. Feels like my CPU got boosted and is 3x as fast as before. It's incredible! I always had some lag in Forge menus and card display, now menus instantly and cards almost insta appear.
Must be the big OS update, I received Android Lollipop yesterday. Maybe it has better memory management or something like this.

I also updated from libgdx 1.5.0 to 1.5.5 for this release (which is the game engine I built the app off of), so that could be helping too.

Is there a bug in Gauntlet mode? First time want to try this. I do not find a way to select a deck. E.g. in custom Gauntlet mode. Arrow on the top left just returns to prev. screen.

Have you tried double-tapping the deck to select it? Also note I'm planning to improve the new gauntlet screen to include its options on the screen rather than using dialogs to select them each time, so this should get easier.

[5enza]

And the best: Suddenly Forge runs much faster and smoother on my Sony Z1. Feels like my CPU got boosted and is 3x as fast as before. It's incredible! I always had some lag in Forge menus and card display, now menus instantly and cards almost insta appear.
Must be the big OS update, I received Android Lollipop yesterday. Maybe it has better memory management or something like this.

Definitely the Lollipop update - the switch to the ART runtime makes a huge difference. I noticed this on my Nexus 7, which at the time was still running KitKat. Once I changed the runtime in the developer options the speed difference was night and day.

[drdev]

I'd also be happy if EDH was a format option under the main screen's deck editor.

I'll do you 5 better. I just released 1.5.39.009, which adds Commander Decks, Scheme Decks, Planar Decks, Draft Decks, Sealed Decks, and Net Commander Decks to the Deck Manager. You can now view, edit, and playtest limited decks outside of the scope of the limited event, in addition to managing decks for variants.

Note that for Commander, since we don't support variants for Gauntlets at the moment, Test Deck will simply start a single Commander match against an AI opponent.

Enjoy.
-Dan

[JediWombat]

Hey hey, not sure if this is the right place.

I've been using Forge for over a year now, and haven't had to post or report anything before because it's been mostly stable and just worked for me.

However, I just got a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S6, and I can't get Forge to run on it. It installs and opens fine, but doesn't load anything on the loading screen. You know the first screen, with the progress bars for "Loading Fonts..." etc., well, that screen loads, but none of the loading bars appear, and the app doesn't progress past this point. I've uninstalled and re-installed, and re-downloaded the .apk in case it was corrupt, with no luck. I read in the known bugs that some tablets have to be locked to Portrait, so I set my phone to that as well, in case it was simply having trouble rendering the loading bars, but still no luck.

Any suggestions on what to do? I thought about replacing the whole game folder with my content off my old phone, which was working, but I don't think the files are the issue, so much as some setting or incompatibility with the phone.

Cheers,
Benjamin.

[bevryde]

Have you tried double-tapping the deck to select it? Also note I'm planning to improve the new gauntlet screen to include its options on the screen rather than using dialogs to select them each time, so this should get easier.

Great thanks. Double tapping works. BTW, Gauntlet mode, if you choose e.g. random color deck for an opponent, you have to create and save a new one, i.e. at current state it cannot dynamically create one...

@Benjamin, hopefully devs here have ideas

[drdev]

Hey hey, not sure if this is the right place.

I've been using Forge for over a year now, and haven't had to post or report anything before because it's been mostly stable and just worked for me.

However, I just got a new phone, a Samsung Galaxy S6, and I can't get Forge to run on it. It installs and opens fine, but doesn't load anything on the loading screen. You know the first screen, with the progress bars for "Loading Fonts..." etc., well, that screen loads, but none of the loading bars appear, and the app doesn't progress past this point. I've uninstalled and re-installed, and re-downloaded the .apk in case it was corrupt, with no luck. I read in the known bugs that some tablets have to be locked to Portrait, so I set my phone to that as well, in case it was simply having trouble rendering the loading bars, but still no luck.

Any suggestions on what to do? I thought about replacing the whole game folder with my content off my old phone, which was working, but I don't think the files are the issue, so much as some setting or incompatibility with the phone.

Cheers,
Benjamin.

Could you send me the contents of forge.log in Forge/data? That may reveal the problem.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what could be going wrong. Have you had problems with any other apps on the S6?

[bevryde]

Hi,

I have some remarks.

1. In the deck editor (unlike in viewer), "copy to clipboard" is missing.
2. Net decks often do not work, e.g. Daily Deck never works..

3. I think the Booster Draft could be more transparent. Currently it is clunky. You look at a set, realize, its not what you want, then press Cancel and are completely out of the selection...
I think it would be much more comfortable, if we could simply choose 3 sets freely, out of all possible sets. Exactly as it is possible in "Decked Drafter" app.

thx

[drdev]

Hi,

I have some remarks.

1. In the deck editor (unlike in viewer), "copy to clipboard" is missing.
2. Net decks often do not work, e.g. Daily Deck never works..

3. I think the Booster Draft could be more transparent. Currently it is clunky. You look at a set, realize, its not what you want, then press Cancel and are completely out of the selection...
I think it would be much more comfortable, if we could simply choose 3 sets freely, out of all possible sets. Exactly as it is possible in "Decked Drafter" app.

thx

1. That'd be easy to add to the drop down menu. I'll do so.
2. That's a known issue due to the links breaking everytime gos updates the forum attachment. Last I heard he's trying to find a more permanent location to store those so the links don't break upon updates.
3. I'm planning to redesign the New Draft screen to support configuring the options without the use of dialogs, which should eliminate this issue.

Thanks for the feedback.
-Dan

[Towan]

Trying to start a game, and change the deck that the comp was playing, it then crashed and now doesnt select a deck for them, also it doesnt show an option to change the player 2 deck, it crashes after a few seconds.

NullPointerException | Open

Code: Select all

Forge Version:    1.5.39.009
Operating System: Linux 3.0.31-1238973 armv7l
Java Version:     0 The Android Project

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel$4.handleEvent(ConstructedScreen.java:438)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.onSelectionChange(ItemView.java:262)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.setSelectedIndex(ItemView.java:225)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.fixSelection(ItemView.java:146)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.refresh(ItemView.java:140)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemListView.setup(ItemListView.java:70)
   at forge.itemmanager.ItemManager.setup(ItemManager.java:241)
   at forge.itemmanager.DeckManager.setup(DeckManager.java:55)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.refreshDecksList(FDeckChooser.java:550)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.restoreSavedState(FDeckChooser.java:736)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.initialize(FDeckChooser.java:450)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel.initialize(ConstructedScreen.java:519)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel.access$800(ConstructedScreen.java:386)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$4.run(ConstructedScreen.java:172)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)


[drdev]

Trying to start a game, and change the deck that the comp was playing, it then crashed and now doesnt select a deck for them, also it doesnt show an option to change the player 2 deck, it crashes after a few seconds.

NullPointerException | Open

Code: Select all

Forge Version:    1.5.39.009
Operating System: Linux 3.0.31-1238973 armv7l
Java Version:     0 The Android Project

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel$4.handleEvent(ConstructedScreen.java:438)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.onSelectionChange(ItemView.java:262)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.setSelectedIndex(ItemView.java:225)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.fixSelection(ItemView.java:146)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemView.refresh(ItemView.java:140)
   at forge.itemmanager.views.ItemListView.setup(ItemListView.java:70)
   at forge.itemmanager.ItemManager.setup(ItemManager.java:241)
   at forge.itemmanager.DeckManager.setup(DeckManager.java:55)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.refreshDecksList(FDeckChooser.java:550)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.restoreSavedState(FDeckChooser.java:736)
   at forge.deck.FDeckChooser.initialize(FDeckChooser.java:450)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel.initialize(ConstructedScreen.java:519)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$PlayerPanel.access$800(ConstructedScreen.java:386)
   at forge.screens.constructed.ConstructedScreen$4.run(ConstructedScreen.java:172)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)


I'm having trouble reproducing this. Is there any chance the remembered deck for player 2 got corrupted? Could you look at the value for CONSTRUCTED_P2_DECK_STATE in Forge\data\forge.preferences?

[drdev]

Have you tried double-tapping the deck to select it? Also note I'm planning to improve the new gauntlet screen to include its options on the screen rather than using dialogs to select them each time, so this should get easier.

Great thanks. Double tapping works. BTW, Gauntlet mode, if you choose e.g. random color deck for an opponent, you have to create and save a new one, i.e. at current state it cannot dynamically create one...

@Benjamin, hopefully devs here have ideas

I just released 1.5.40.001, which switches to using a dialog with an OK button instead of a screen for picking your deck as part of this flow.

EDIT: Just released 1.5.40.002 with a quick fix for the "Loading..." overlays sometimes not appearing.

[agentbarker]

Since update, I don't get past this screen...

I uninstalled and reinstalled and now the program loads but the download files freezes when I try and get the lq pictures back