Topic: Widelands running on an Android smartphone :-)
mifritscher
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Joined: 2013-10-20, 15:06
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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
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
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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.
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mifritscher
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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.
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
Posts: 1445 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
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.
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