Vibration

[Pablo Mayobre]

Someone (undef) in the forum suggested vibration support for android. Since it would be nice to give some haptic feedback to the user (I like the idea).

This is not implemented in SDL so I don't know if it would be possible to do it with it so maybe with the NDK itself?

[Konstantin Timoshenko]

You can used os.execute(), but only in rooted devices

Example:

local dev="sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable"

local duration = 100

os.execute("su")--super

os.execute("echo > "..duration.." "..dev) --enable vibro on 100 ms

[Pablo Mayobre]

Awesome! It seems like a hack hahaha it would be nice to have native control on this (and support every device, even the non-rooted ones) plus it could be added to iPhone too (@slime73)

[Pablo Mayobre]

I found this answer in stackoverflow and it seems rather simple to do in java

[Alex Szpakowski]

A decent place to stick phone vibration in the current API would be Joystick:setVibration on the accelerometer-joystick object.

it could be added to iPhone too

The iOS API for iPhone vibration doesn't have much control over duration, unfortunately.

[Pablo Mayobre]

setViration(true/false) would do... for duration we can use dt

I don't think that the accelerometer-joystick is the best place, since sometimes you disable the accelerometer (love.config), plus it would be nice to have it separated so anyone who doesn't need it can delete the manifest part of it

[Alex Szpakowski]

setVibration(true/false) would do

In which module?

[Pablo Mayobre]

love.phone? hahaha it would be great for later additions but well, I dont know

[Martin Felis]

Implemented as of 6110de0. Use love.system.vibrate(seconds).

[Gustavo Lara]

cool!