Newbie Questions

Bagzli

Hello,

I'm a fairly new developer with gamesalad and I was hoping to get a few pointers. I am making my first game and I am targeting android devices to start off. I am trying to figure out how to setup the project best for android development. Are there any specific settings I should be paying attention to?

Second thing I wished to ask is if upon finishing my android development and I wish to target iphone next, how difficult is it to switch? Is there something I should be doing from the get go to ensure smoother transition down the line? I'm just trying to save myself a lot of pain down the road if it is possible.

Lastly I have followed a youtube tutorial here to create an 8 way controller. I have it working exactly like in the video, however one thing I can't seem to figure out is if I hit an actor on the left side I want my moving actor to not be able to move to the left until he moves away from the wall, is there a way to do that with 8 way controllers? I have tried few things myself but I can't get the actor to move again after hitting the wall; as all the if statements are based on collision and after they collide.... well its always collided.