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AlienBoard: android app for chess variants
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Shivkumar Shivaji



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PostPost subject: Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants    Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:22 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
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Well the reason I am coding fast is because I already had a working java gui that does everything. So I am only porting it to android platform, but when that runs out probably soon, I will be slow I am glad you liked the menu. Did you also like the highlighting scheme? You can make many chess moves by one single click instead of two. For example e2e4 can be made by clicking the empty e4 square. That is simple enough but there are many cases that comes handy specially in other board games. For some reason I like this feature,and no other GUI does that AFAIK.



Yes, the highlighting scheme is useful. I did not like to see all the legal moves though, that is somewhat distracting for me, however, maybe an option to show or hide legal moves.

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Right now it is not very user friendly because I tested it only with engines. It even shuts down as soon as the last mating move is played. So no chance to replay the game. I will try to incorporate those options in the next release.


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Indeed. I solved one crash that happens almost at the end of every game. The problem with those crashes is mostly related to concurrent modification that is a headache on the android. I think that is a priority and will try to solve it ASAP.


Interesting, did not realize something is concurrently modified.

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There is none. If I can find a tiny opening book I will include it. The problem with Android ndk is anything you put in assets folder is saved twice. So when my app size is in reality around 1mb total, it takes up 2mb on the phone. So I am a bit reluctant to include big files with the apk, but ofcourse once can download books compatible with scorpio and put them on the sdcard! I only need to provide option to modify scorpio to read book from any path... Will that work for you ?


Yes, that will work. Odd that assets are saved twice with the android ndk, I wonder why that would be.

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You must be a strong player. It is about 5x slower than the regular version so I don't know where that puts it interms of elo but a random _guess_ would be in the 2000 elo range. Its searches 200kns on my phone, I don't know how much Stockfish or other strong engines search per second there. Ofcourse I don't want you to be stuck with Scorpio, so I will look for a stronger engine that I can include if the author allows me. Maybe I can pick up Ivanhoe (public any way).



Yikes, I did not realize that Scorpio on the tablet was only 2000. It certainly feels stronger. I am about 2300. I would say Scorpio might be 2100 or so. At least I hope/think so. Ivanhoe or Stockfish appear interesting to add.

Are you planning to put Alienboard on github? Possibly others might interesting in adding code. Myself included.

Thanks for the changes and your comments.
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AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Fri May 25, 2012 3:44 pm
      Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Adam Hair Fri May 25, 2012 7:35 pm
            Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Fri May 25, 2012 7:48 pm
                  Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Fri May 25, 2012 11:04 pm
                        Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Fri May 25, 2012 11:28 pm
                              Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Sat May 26, 2012 6:03 pm
                                    Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Sat May 26, 2012 6:16 pm
                                          Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Sun May 27, 2012 2:50 am
                                                Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Sun May 27, 2012 12:54 pm
      Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Sat May 26, 2012 12:59 pm
            Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Sun May 27, 2012 12:47 pm
                  Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Mon May 28, 2012 12:03 pm
                        Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Tue May 29, 2012 9:58 pm
                              Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Wed May 30, 2012 1:05 am
                                    Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Wed May 30, 2012 9:22 pm
                                          Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Wed May 30, 2012 10:03 pm
                                                Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Wed May 30, 2012 11:18 pm
                                                      Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Wed May 30, 2012 11:31 pm
                                                            Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Thu May 31, 2012 5:23 am
                                                                  Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Thu May 31, 2012 2:04 pm
                                                                        Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Thu May 31, 2012 10:37 pm
                                                                              Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Thu May 31, 2012 11:07 pm
                                                                                    Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Shivkumar Shivaji Thu May 31, 2012 11:23 pm
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                                    Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Peter Österlund Thu May 31, 2012 11:08 pm
                                          Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Daniel Shawul Thu May 31, 2012 11:25 pm
                                                Re: AlienBoard: android app for chess variants Peter Österlund Thu May 31, 2012 11:31 pm
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