Make OUYA games with LÖVE

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I wanted to participate in the OUYA Winter Game Jam 2020, and I planned to use my favorite game framework, LÖVE. LÖVE supports Android, so I compiled my game and tried it out on my Ouya. And it segfaulted during startup. :frowning_face: Thus I spent the first 5 days of the game jam porting LÖVE to the OUYA.1 :smile:

It’s working now, and I’ve started making my game. Anyone else can now use LÖVE for their OUYA game. Here’s how:

  1. Get love-android. My changes are merged upstream, so you don’t need to do anything special to get them.

  2. Follow the directions in the README.

  3. Open app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and delete the following line. If you don’t you’ll see an error like java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.bluetooth.BluetoothManager2:

       android:installLocation="auto" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
-  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" android:maxSdkVersion="23" />
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" android:maxSdkVersion="28" />

And that’s all!!!

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