Framerate and game loop on mobile

Question

I'm searching how to manage game framerate on mobiles devices, here is my problem:

On a computer with got something like that:

void main()
{
    while(game.isRunning())
    {
        event.handle(eventInfos);
        game.update(dt);
        graphic.render();
    }
}

On a mobile device with got something like that:

void update()
{
    game.update(dt);
}

void render()
{
    game.render(dt);
}

void event()
{
    game.handle(eventInfos);
}

When I search on internet, I found something like that everytime:

-> GameLoop

-> Fix your time step

I'm using IOS (With GLKViewController) and Android (with the NDK), and I've that rendering method is call from another thread

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I findthe GameLoop link you have posted is very straight forward, he runs a thread which in its turn check for right time to call update() in these lines

            while (sleepTime < 0 && framesSkipped < MAX_FRAME_SKIPS) {
            // we need to catch up
            // update without rendering
            this.gamePanel.update(); 
            // add frame period to check if in next frame
            sleepTime += FRAME_PERIOD;  
            framesSkipped++;
        }