Godot Daily: Android Orientation and Editor Reliability Fixes
Merged work centered on Android orientation and sensor handling plus XR and rendering stability, with a second cluster fixing editor drag and layout interactions. Open proposals target Vulkan allocation safety, sorting correctness, and debugger stability.
Duration: PT2M17S
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-11-14T06:03:21Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
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Good morning, it's Saturday, November 14th, 2026, and this is Godot Daily.
The lead pattern is platform reliability, especially Android orientation and extended reality rendering, alongside steady cleanup of editor interaction bugs.
First, Android sensors and startup orientation. PR 124126 fixed a stale sensor rotation cache that only refreshed on 90-degree changes, leaving 180-degree flips in the wrong coordinate system and breaking scripts using motion data. Two related proposals are still open: PR 125442 for portrait mode detection at…
Second, desktop XR and graphics allocation. PR 125270 stops resizing the desktop window from needlessly triggering a render buffer reconfigure in XR mode. PR 125167 reuses wrapped compositor textures within a frame on Vision O S, reducing redundant work. Open for review, PR 125434 addresses Vulkan allocator issues,…
Third, editor workflow papercuts. Merged fixes include PR 125050, which cancels an in-progress drag if the text field is hidden and avoids the editor sticking in a drag state, and PR 125025, where dragging tree items in a dialog could scroll the Scene dock on Wayland. PR 125425 fixes Control nodes with right-to-left…
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