I’m developing an application in which 2D animations will be displayed over a live-camera preview. The animations have 20-30 objects over a transparent background and the camera preview must be visible during the animation. Note that I am receiving finished SWF animations and have to either recreate them in code or figure out a way to display them as-is.
I have researched the options below. Can anyone give any suggestions for how to approach showing or easily recreating the SWF animations in Android?
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OpenGL – tried this and got partway (basic animation running with camera still visible), but it’s quite a lot of work to recreate the complex movement and timing in the SWFs. Just recreating one SWF took a day or two of work and I have many animations to recreate.
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Android 2D animation – the built-in animation classes will make it a bit easier to do movement/timing, but I still have to recreate the original animation
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WebView (??) – is it possible to display a background transparent swf in a transparent webview over a surface view? Has anyone had any luck with transparent SWFs in android? Transparent webviews seem to work according to (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5003156/android-webview-style-background-colortransparent-ignored-on-android-2-2)
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Convert the SWF to a movie and play it…with a transparent background? I can’t imagine this would work and have found nothing online to suggest it’s possible but…
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
Just in case anyone else is tasked with rendering/recreating Flash animations in an Android app – seems there is no alternative but to rewrite the animation in OpenGL.