Topic: Widelands running on an Android smartphone :-)
mifritscher Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2013-10-20, 15:12
Hi, ubuntu's 12.04 widelands build 16 is running just fine on my android smartphone using a chroot environment & vnc :-) I remember that in build 17 or 18 the graphics were overholed, does it need openGL now? That would be sad, because in this environment I haven't OpenGL. Edit: it is openGL by default on b17, but sdl is still available. Great :-) But so, I an play widelands even if I'm traveling or so Best regards, mifritscher Edited: 2013-10-20, 15:14
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SirVer |
Posted at: 2013-10-20, 16:57
Could you elaborate? Did you need to compile Widelands on/for Android? What is vnc? Is Widelands really running on your smartphone or are you playing it remotely? For b19, I want to try to make a native version of Widelands targetting mainly tablets and also getting it into google play. Top Quote |
mifritscher Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2013-10-20, 17:04
It is running 100% on the smartphone. I've installed an Ubuntu on a chroot- so it has its own userland, but shares the kernel etc. with android. For this I used the mentioned tool. This brings a vnc-server with it, so GUI-application can be used as well. In this Ubuntu I installed the widelands-version with comes with Ubuntu. On Android's side a vnc-server is needed to get the graphics VNC is a protocoll which can transfer GUI from one computer to another. I use it strictly locally in this case, but I need to use it because for the chroot'ed ubuntu there is no way to paint directly to the display. Top Quote |
SirVer |
Posted at: 2013-10-20, 18:02
Aah, now I get it. Nice little hack! As mentioned, maybe a native android app is not too far off. Top Quote |