Creating Sprite-like elements in plugins?

AniketK

I was thinking of making a video player plugin for Android and iOS and wondering how I'll get back an element on which I can set a position.

ar2rsawseen

@AniketK Native UI uses native elements and positions them as Sprites (including scaling options and logical dimensions).
And this is how it does it:
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/plugins/native/examples/GiderosProject/ui-android.lua#L73-L128

basically using logicalScale and logicalTranslate ratios

AniketK

@ar2rsawseen but Native UI is android only. I wanted to position a videoview in both ios and android with whatever their respective video widgets are.

ar2rsawseen

I see, so the main question is how you will get those views in the plugins

The answer is you don't. You keep them in your plugin and manipulate as native views. But your plugin provides functions to set/get positions etc and you get these values in your plugin and position native view accordingly.

Here is what Ads Plugin does:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/plugins/ads/source/iOS/Plugins/Ads/adsbinder.cpp#L433-L533

It then retrieves x/y positions from native view or sets them to native view.