ShokoRocket Android

A clone of the famous Chu-Chu Rocket.

History

I wrote this many years ago, and back then Android phones weren't what they are now.

Devices had:

• 320x240 screens, or the fancy ones had 800x640
• A generous 512MB of RAM if you were lucky (honestly, this is actually quite a lot, even then)
• A heap that was sometimes randomly limited to 12MB
• A sub-1Ghz, in-order CPU with no floating point unit
• No JIT - the Java was interpretted!

This means that ShokoRocket is written in a way that /should/ accomodate these low end devices, but it doesn't make use of the latest and greatest APIs, and might not look great on a 4K screen.

Building

There are two steps to building ShokoRocket

1. Generate bitmaps
   The art for ShokoRocket lives under the art folder, and is defined as a bunch of SVGs. These can be rendered using the art/render.sh script.
   This script requires Inkscape and bc on the path.

   Protip You can skip this step if you don't change the art

2. Providing signing keys
   Edit local.properties and set the following

RELEASE_STORE_FILE=****
RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD==****
RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS==****
RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD=****

3. Build the signed APK
   

gradlew assembleRelease

The resulting APK will be written to app/build/outputs/apk/release.

This process is due a bit of streamlining and dev-ops-ificiation.

License and privacy policy

A privacy policy is required by Google Play, so one is included. No data is collected, and it takes 3000+ characters to say so

MIT license applied. If you do fork it, drop me a message. I'll be delighted.