How to make an OEX app for android?

[asanjuan]

Hi everyone.

I'm back in business doing some little things (small tweaks) in my engine, Rhetoric. I'm finding out that the new standards have changed a lot since i left the project aside (back in 2017).
To my surprise, I can't install my arm compile in my new Android phone, and I've read that it has to be published in an "OEX app".
I'm pretty sure someone has asked this here time ago, but I wonder what are the steps to make that compile.

Can anyone help me? A simple checklist would be great. An example with code and instructions woud be even better

Thanks in advance.
Alberto.

[flok]

Hi everyone.

I'm back in business doing some little things (small tweaks) in my engine, Rhetoric. I'm finding out that the new standards have changed a lot since i left the project aside (back in 2017).
To my surprise, I can't install my arm compile in my new Android phone, and I've read that it has to be published in an "OEX app".
I'm pretty sure someone has asked this here time ago, but I wonder what are the steps to make that compile.

Can anyone help me? A simple checklist would be great. An example with code and instructions woud be even better

Thanks in advance.
Alberto.

I found it to be problematic.

What you need to do is: compile your binary and then rename it to myprogram.so so that it looks like a library. Yes. Then there's a java-wrapper which is included in e.g. https://github.com/c4akarl/StockfishChess

Why it is problematic? I could run the result in the emulator as well as in my phone but if I upload it to playstore, then it won't work anymore (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... eusden.dog).

[Fabio Gobbato]

Hi everyone.

I'm back in business doing some little things (small tweaks) in my engine, Rhetoric. I'm finding out that the new standards have changed a lot since i left the project aside (back in 2017).
To my surprise, I can't install my arm compile in my new Android phone, and I've read that it has to be published in an "OEX app".
I'm pretty sure someone has asked this here time ago, but I wonder what are the steps to make that compile.

Can anyone help me? A simple checklist would be great. An example with code and instructions woud be even better

Thanks in advance.
Alberto.

It seems not a simple task as before. You can have a look at others engine for example: https://github.com/peterosterlund2/texelapp

[Archimedes]

https://sourceforge.net/p/chess-engines ... wiki/home/

There you will find a current project directory for Texel as an attachment. This project is based on the chess engine support library for Android from https://github.com/gkalab/chessenginesupport-androidlib and has been adapted to the latest version of Android Studio. The project should work without any issues on newer versions of Android Studio.

Assuming, you want to distribute Texel as your own APK file, change the string „yourname“ to your own name in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\build.gradle
texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\MainActivity.java
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\TexelProvider.java

Finally, change the directory „texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\“ to your own name.

Do this job, before you load the project into Android Studio.

Load the project into Android Studio and generate a signed APK file.

If you have a new version of Texel, just copy the native chess engines to the directory in
„texelChessEngine\src\main\jniLibs“, rename the files to libtexel.so and change the version nunber for Texel in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\res\xml\enginelist.xml

[Fabio Gobbato]

https://sourceforge.net/p/chess-engines ... wiki/home/

There you will find a current project directory for Texel as an attachment. This project is based on the chess engine support library for Android from https://github.com/gkalab/chessenginesupport-androidlib and has been adapted to the latest version of Android Studio. The project should work without any issues on newer versions of Android Studio.

Assuming, you want to distribute Texel as your own APK file, change the string „yourname“ to your own name in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\build.gradle
texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\MainActivity.java
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\TexelProvider.java

Finally, change the directory „texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\“ to your own name.

Do this job, before you load the project into Android Studio.

Load the project into Android Studio and generate a signed APK file.

If you have a new version of Texel, just copy the native chess engines to the directory in
„texelChessEngine\src\main\jniLibs“, rename the files to libtexel.so and change the version nunber for Texel in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\res\xml\enginelist.xml

Wow wonderful work! Can chess engine support library for Android be used also by commercial engines?

[Archimedes]

Can chess engine support library for Android be used also by commercial engines?

It seems that the project has its roots here:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/chess ... ndroidlib/.

The original project was released under the Apache license 2.0. So I would say, yes.

[asanjuan]

https://sourceforge.net/p/chess-engines ... wiki/home/

There you will find a current project directory for Texel as an attachment. This project is based on the chess engine support library for Android from https://github.com/gkalab/chessenginesupport-androidlib and has been adapted to the latest version of Android Studio. The project should work without any issues on newer versions of Android Studio.

Assuming, you want to distribute Texel as your own APK file, change the string „yourname“ to your own name in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\build.gradle
texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\MainActivity.java
texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\chess\texel\TexelProvider.java

Finally, change the directory „texelChessEngine\src\main\java\org\yourname\“ to your own name.

Do this job, before you load the project into Android Studio.

Load the project into Android Studio and generate a signed APK file.

If you have a new version of Texel, just copy the native chess engines to the directory in
„texelChessEngine\src\main\jniLibs“, rename the files to libtexel.so and change the version nunber for Texel in the following files:

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texelChessEngine\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml
texelChessEngine\src\main\res\xml\enginelist.xml

Thank you so much!
Pretty clear! I'll try to follow your advice this weekend.

[flok]

This may help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/704 ... app-bundle