I just want to share this little know board game which has simple rules but is very challenging with more than 2000 opening moves. I worked on this app recently and would love to hear any feedback. The game AI engine is actually built on java many years ago (as applet) during my university days and translated into objective c using j2objc translation tool. To my knowledge, this is first version of the game on iOS.
The free version of the app will be published soon (currently in review).
Have you written a post-mortem on using j2objc? I've tried it for some utility classes and it was frustrating, so I'm curious to hear what your experience was.
I have not written any blog post.. too lazy to describe the whole process :)
it was frustrating for me at first also :) but after some configuration, it works fine.. it managed to translate the AI code well.. which is a pleasant surprise for me.. otherwise I would need to spend a lot of time to translate the AI stuff
The cool thing is you can modify your code in Java with Eclipse.. and then it is auto-recompiled in objective C.. there is no need to actually modify the generated code in Xcode (which was my assumption when first read about j2objc).. We can extend the classes though if there is a need
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[ 22.4 ms ] story [ 746 ms ] threadI just want to share this little know board game which has simple rules but is very challenging with more than 2000 opening moves. I worked on this app recently and would love to hear any feedback. The game AI engine is actually built on java many years ago (as applet) during my university days and translated into objective c using j2objc translation tool. To my knowledge, this is first version of the game on iOS.
The free version of the app will be published soon (currently in review).
To read more about the game, you can check out the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_the_Amazons
it was frustrating for me at first also :) but after some configuration, it works fine.. it managed to translate the AI code well.. which is a pleasant surprise for me.. otherwise I would need to spend a lot of time to translate the AI stuff
The cool thing is you can modify your code in Java with Eclipse.. and then it is auto-recompiled in objective C.. there is no need to actually modify the generated code in Xcode (which was my assumption when first read about j2objc).. We can extend the classes though if there is a need