- Adds Swappy for Android for stable frame pacing
- Implements pre-transformed Swapchain so that Godot's compositor is in
charge of rotating the screen instead of Android's compositor
(performance optimization for phones that don't have HW rotator)
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The work was performed by collaboration of TheForge and Google. I am
merely splitting it up into smaller PRs and cleaning it up.
Changes from original PR:
- Removed "display/window/frame_pacing/android/target_frame_rate" option
to use Engine::get_max_fps instead.
- Target framerate can be changed at runtime using Engine::set_max_fps.
- Swappy is enabled by default.
- Added documentation.
- enable_auto_swap setting is replaced with swappy_mode.
- Implements asynchronous transfer queues from PR #87590.
- Adds ubershaders that can run with specialization constants specified as push constants.
- Pipelines with specialization constants can compile in the background.
- Added monitoring for pipeline compilations.
- Materials and shaders can now be created asynchronously on background threads.
- Meshes that are loaded on background threads can also compile pipelines as part of the loading process.
Thanks for the fix of `JavaClassWrapper` in https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96182 and the changes in the previous commit, this introduces an `AndroidRuntime` plugin which provides GDScript access to the Android runtime capabilities.
This allows developers to get access to various Android capabilities without the need of a plugin.
For example, the following logic can be used to check whether the device supports vibration:
```
var android_runtime = Engine.get_singleton("AndroidRuntime")
if android_runtime:
print("Checking if the device supports vibration")
var vibrator_service = android_runtime.getApplicationContext().getSystemService("vibrator")
if vibrator_service:
if vibrator_service.hasVibrator():
print("Vibration is supported on device!")
else:
printerr("Vibration is not supported on device")
else:
printerr("Unable to retrieve the vibrator service")
else:
printerr("Couldn't find AndroidRuntime singleton")
```
The Android plugin implementation is updated to use `JavaClassWrapper` which was fixed in https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/96182, thus removing the limitation on supported types.
Note that `JavaClassWrapper` has also been updated in order to only provide access to public methods and constructor to GDScript.
A few permissions including the `USE_SCENE` permission are being renamed with the launch of the Meta Spatial SDK, so we update the excluded list to avoid requesting them on app start.
Matias N. Goldberg
Thaddeus Crews
Rémi Verschelde
bruvzg
Dario
Adam Scott
Fredia Huya-Kouadio
Gergely Kis
Yevhen Babiichuk (DustDFG)
Anish Mishra
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Rémi Verschelde
Fabio Alessandrelli
David Snopek
Joaquim Monteiro
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Alvin Wong
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