Years back what I read said you opened and closed the database around
every query. Now I'm reading differently, that the OS will close it for
you on app shutdown and that it's ok to just leave it open. Trying
that after a few minutes on one device looks ok. Will need to test the
heck out of it, especially on older OS versions, before ship.
Play store reports crashes but stack crawl doesn't tell me where
from. So try catching the exception and on debug builds logging what
dialog is responsible.
When those became an advanced feature I added a warning for upgrading
players who'd miss them. That was long ago, and the warning was only
supposed to last a release or two.
If a Makefile defines a dirty word list then a new python script is
invoked to filter for and remove those words as the dict is being
built. So far I have for English only, which makes sense because only
English wordlists are built-in on Android and Google's rating system
cares only about what's built in.
showDialog() goes away except for PrefsActivity which can't do
fragments. Move stuff required by PrefsDelegate into it from
DelegateBase since no other subclasses does old-style Dialogs
any more. Remove a bunch of stuff from DlgDelegate, e.g. saving
state, that no longer gets used.
Was getting crash with "Can not perform this action after
onSaveInstanceState". This lets the back stack get back into shape so it
can put up another alert.
Add to DldID the ability to specify whether dialog fragments bearing
that id go on the back stack. Set INVITE alerts (only) to use that
mechanism. Having them on the back stack seems to be required by their
buttons being hacked to not dismiss them, which in turn is required
because I want them to stick around underneath other alerts their
buttons launch.
Get rid of explicit enable-dualpane boolean pref, instead relying on the
three way default/force-phone/force-tablet pref. Offer to change that
rather than the former in BoardDelegate when run on upgrade. Move the
prefs setting from Debug to Appearance since it's "real" now.
Recent recommendations are not to attempt to handle it myself, so don't
and we'll see how it goes. And unify notions of tablet and enabling
dual-pane: a device that isn't dual-pane should not be using the new
single-activity stuff at all.
Had to disable use of the back-stack for DialogFragments, though that
means I can't prevent duplicates from stacking up (esp. in the
pathological robot-vs-robot case, but also just when I rotate the device
while a "rematch" alert is up.) The problem seems to be in dismiss
actions being handled too late. One easy-to-duplicate case is the
tile-picker. When it's enabled and you commit a turn I post first the
confirmation and then, in response to a "yes", the picker. But the
picker gets added to the stack moments before the confirmation is
removed, and it's the nature of stack removal that everything above
what's being removed gets pulled too. So you never see the
picker. Simply post()ing a runnable to put the picker up later fixes
this one case, but a similar trick doesn't work elsewhere, so I'm
punting until I have time to root-cause the problem.
Each alert gets a unique name. Add to backstack, and before doing so
look for another with the same name and dismiss it. This works most of
the time, especially to prevent them from piling up with orientation
changes. But in a robot-vs-robot game, and occasionally in a game with
three robots and one not, SCORE alerts stack up. It's the removal that's
failing, not the test for a duplicate, so perhaps I need to somehow wait
for it to succeed before adding the new alert.
