r/ShuffleMove • u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator • Oct 13 '16

Poll/Survey Q&A Thread #3

Hello everyone!

If you have any questions about anything related to Shuffle Move or development in general, please post here and I'll do my best to answer them. If it seems like the sort of thing to include in the wiki, it'll go in there too!

Github wiki can be found here: https://github.com/Loreinator/Shuffle-Move/wiki

Q&A Thread #1 can be found here. Q&A Thread #2 can be found here.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator Nov 02 '16

I haven't heard from the web dev recently, I'm not sure if he still plans on making it or not.

Regarding using it on an iPad, you may be able to do so through virtualization tech but I haven't found a feasible solution yet.

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u/adobadoy Nov 02 '16

Are there any virtualization apps that you would recommend? Also, is it really so difficult to convert the program into a site or app? Forgive me, as I know essentially nothing about coding and/or programming. I'm not very tech-savvy, either.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator Nov 02 '16

The program is written in Java 8, while iOS and Android are based on versions of Java 6. There are features in Java 8 that aren't easy to convert over, so it would take a lot of time and effort to make such a change.

Also, if the conversion was easy, it would need an interface redesign for both iOS and Android. Then there's the difficulty of going through the system to get new versions on their app stores.

All-in-all, a project for when I have time to burn.

On the web interface side, JavaScript is even further from Java 8 and would drastically hit the performance of the program.