Network game on Android

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programaspato
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Hi, there! I wonder if anyone knows how to start a network game on an Android device. Clearly, the app let's you select between local game or network game, however I really do not understand how this option works. Maybe it is necessary to create a network game on a PC? I was wondering if it could be possible to create a network game between two Android devices. Thank you very much!
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You can even play against the desktop on android, although you'd probably get beaten unless you were using a bluetooth keyboard. The only issue at present with android is that since we have no android maintainer, it is using a very old version of hedgewars, one based off a dev version: https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/rev/7690 from 2012. This post has the details: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/4008 Other than that, you can play as normal on the hedgewars server against other android or desktop clients, as long as you are all on the same revision. It might in fact be a little easier if the room host was on a desktop though, just for doing the setup.. If we had a maintainer, you could probably play anyone. Know someone who wants to take over the android maintenance?
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Hi, Nemo. Thanks for your answer. I was just writing a review of the game and I wanted to know if the network game was available. I have not finished the review yet, so now that I have some free time I am going to try if I am capable of make the network game work. Thank you very much for your answer. [quote=nemo] You can even play against the desktop on android, although you'd probably get beaten unless you were using a bluetooth keyboard. The only issue at present with android is that since we have no android maintainer, it is using a very old version of hedgewars, one based off a dev version: https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/rev/7690 from 2012. This post has the details: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/4008 Other than that, you can play as normal on the hedgewars server against other android or desktop clients, as long as you are all on the same revision. It might in fact be a little easier if the room host was on a desktop though, just for doing the setup.. If we had a maintainer, you could probably play anyone. Know someone who wants to take over the android maintenance? [/quote]
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Ok. Yeah. Running the android network version is fairly trivial - just grab the apk off gang garrison website. At that point you just need to find someone to play with. You can use another android phone, but I think it'd be easier to host a game using the revision mentioned in that blog post - You can use [kb]BuildingOnLinux[/kb] as a starting point, then update to the version mentioned in the post and rebuild. You'll need slightly different dev libs since that one is still on SDL 1.2. I have a build of that 0.9.18-dev on my machine actually, so we can play some time if you wish.
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