Saving puzzle type for all puzzles

[mxrowanthomas]

Keeping the settings defining the current settings (including any custom settings) for all games as opposed to just the current game. You could also store the entire game state but that might get large, storing the settings would be great though.

[wfaulk]

I was just getting ready to submit a similar enhancement request, but it probably makes sense to add to yours. I'd like to see the option to save custom game modes rather than having to re-enter settings all the time.

[chrisboyle]

Should perhaps do some investigation and back-of-envelope maths at some point, but I would guess that storing all the game states would be ok with compression.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/zip/GZIPOutputStream.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/zip/GZIPInputStream.html

[chrisboyle]

The chooser could then indicate which games have a game in progress/completed/started...

An alternative fix here is to just save the type settings as numberland originally suggested, and explicitly have a list of games in progress, which would allow multiple games of the same type (e.g. several Signpost games at once).

[marcelogp]

I was interested in this feature too, so I wrote a patch that save the state for each game into /sdcard/sgtpuzzles/ and load every time the user changes current game. It seems to work well.

I am kind of new to android dev, but if you want to check it out:
marcelogp@2823dbb

[chrisboyle]

Hi, thank you for your patch, and sorry I somehow missed it at the time! I'd actually really prefer to have this in the preferences framework so it gets backed up to the user's Google account, and doesn't get disrupted if an SD card is removed. I hope to look at this soon.

[chrisboyle]

Seems to work in 2d7c71e; should be in next release.

[chrisboyle]

Correction made at b167474 (was using game id, not params)