{"id":5700,"date":"2024-11-20T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2024-12-06T21:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T21:28:30","slug":"reintroducing-osmos-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/2024\/11\/20\/reintroducing-osmos-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintroducing Osmos for Android!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many have asked \u2013 and so we’re happy to announce that Osmos has returned to Android<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Some may ask: Why did it disappear in the first place?<\/b> Well, back in 2011 we worked with a company called Apportable to bring the mobile version of Osmos to Android. They were great to work with, and the game worked well, including regular updates, but in 2015, Apportable more or less “disappeared”. Because Apportable used proprietary tech to “cross-compile” our iOS codebase, we were no longer able to generate\/update our Android builds without their help. A new build required a completely new port, from scratch, which we didn’t have the bandwidth for. Over the following few years, the existing build started to show its age, and Google pulled it from the Play Store. These days many Android devices have become 64-bit-only, and won’t run that old 32-bit version.<\/p>\n

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Enter Andrew LeTourneau<\/b> of Off-Peak Engineer<\/a>. He reached out in late 2023, interested in resurrecting Osmos on Android. We talked, got along well, and came up with a plan to go for it! And now, about a year (and many technical hurdles) later, we have a fresh port up on Google Play<\/a>! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n

One extra detail that old players will appreciate: we’re working on an update to include Cloud Progress<\/b>, so you will be able to hop from device to device without having to restart the game. Hopefully that’ll be live in a week or so. (Once it is, if you have progress from the old build on an old device, try installing and running this new build on that device to get that progress into the cloud.)<\/p>\n

Thanks, and happy Osmoting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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