Black Cat's Lab

I'm glad to announce the 10.000th download of Space Trader in less than two months

So, 10.000 thanks for yours encouragements and feedback !

I've again a lot of ideas to improve SP and I hope you'll enjoy coming soon features.

For space trader needs, I had to develop custom dialog which aims user to scroll when content is too long to bee displayed on screen.

Source :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:layout_weight="1">

    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

        android:id="@+id/layout_root" android:orientation="horizontal"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"

        android:padding="10dp">

        <ImageView android:id="@+id/imgMentor" android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginRight="10dp"

            android:layout_alignParentTop="True" android:src="@drawable/mentor" />

        <TextView android:id="@+id/tvSubject" android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textColor="#FFF"

            android:layout_alignParentTop="True" android:layout_toRightOf="@id/imgMentor"

            android:text="@string/default_text" />

        <TextView android:id="@+id/tvExplanation"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:textColor="#FFF" android:layout_below="@id/imgMentor"

            android:layout_marginTop="7dip" android:text="@string/default_text" />

    </RelativeLayout>

</ScrollView>

And result :

New features

• new items (add medecine and jewels, replace computer by robot)
• same buying/selling price on a planet
• improve trade rules : events (war, famine, epidemy, etc) change goods needs and price
• improve trade rules : illegal goods are more profitable
• improve trade rules : item price change when you buy/sell (sell -> reduce planet need)
• store view : add "compare with" tab
• profile view : add stats and news tabs (planet events as war, etc)
• garage view : move inventory tab from store, split other info to ship and equipment tab
• add new police ship
• change stats and garage background
• combat : get items when you kill enemy
• choose game difficulty (influe on profits)

Bugs fix

• bug "The slider won't work for me when I try to sell 1 item, when I own 1 item only"
• bug "if you sell Laser I it prints out Do you want to sell the Laser II?"
• ship info with negative loading (come from get item when kill enemy problem)
• bug "The patrol confiscated my cargo, but when I docked I found that while nothing was in my inventory my load still read 70/70, which prevents me from buying anything else."

Introduction

Monkey is a program that runs on your emulator and generates pseudo-random streams of user events (clicks, touches, etc) and system-level events.

It can be use to stress-test applications that you are developing, in a random yet repeatable manner.

Use

Once your emulator is launched, run monkey test with adb :

nico@laptop:/tools$ ./adb shell monkey -p com.blackcatslab.spacetrader -v 500

In my case, space trader crash and monkey provides following stack trace :

// CRASH: com.blackcatslab.spacetrader (pid 222)

// Short Msg: database not open

// Long Msg: java.lang.IllegalStateException: database not open

// Build Label: android:generic/sdk/generic/:2.1/ERD79/22607:eng/test-keys

// Build Changelist: 22607

// Build Time: 1261182920

// ID:

// Tag: AndroidRuntime

// java.lang.IllegalStateException: database not open

//   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.updateWithOnConflict(SQLiteDatabase.java:1517)

//   at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.update(SQLiteDatabase.java:1499)

//   at com.blackcatslab.spacetrader.data.DbAdapter.updateShipCurrentFuel(DbAdapter.java:1027)

//   at com.blackcatslab.spacetrader.PlanetLeave$2.onClick(PlanetLeave.java:218)

//   at com.android.internal.app.AlertController$ButtonHandler.handleMessage(AlertController.java:158)

//   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)

//   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)

//   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)

//   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Method.java:-2)

//   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)

//   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)

//   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)

//   at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(NativeStart.java:-2)



** Monkey aborted due to error.

Events injected: 197

:Dropped: keys=0 pointers=20 trackballs=0 flips=0

## Network stats: elapsed time=26752ms (26752ms mobile, 0ms wifi, 0ms not connected)

** System appears to have crashed at event 197 of 500 using seed 0

You can found more information on Monkey tool usage on android developper website.

I can now try to reproduce this sqlite connection problem and fix it. Remember Monkey runs a random stress test which can successfully finished 10 times and failed the 11th.

Special thanks to Max who's presented me this awesome stress-test tool.

New features

• allow longest game (75, 100 rds)
• change weapon power/price (add chip weapons)
• save/load game

Bugs fix

• buy weapon toast message error
• reduce images size

It's done, first Space Trader release is now available on market !

Next version coming soon with others travel events (asteroid, lost items, etc), others features in garage like customize or change your ship (buy weapon).

Thanks to raise bugs or ideas !