[0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Droid

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[0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Droid

by Calinou » Sat Mar 14, 2015 16:45

Hello, you can now get Minetest on Android from Google Play and F-Droid. The APK build has also been updated to 0.4.12.

This is an official build, without advertisements and is available under the GNU LGPLv2.1+. If you are using an unofficial build, or the old 0.4.10 APK, you are encouraged to switch to the new, official one.

Download from Google Play (requires Android 2.3 or later, 13 MB)

Download from F-Droid (requires Android 2.3 or later, 13 MB)

Direct APK download (requires Android 2.3 or later, 12.7 MB). Enable “Unknown Sources” in security settings of your device.

Description (from Google Play)



Minetest is now available officially on the Google Play Store !

No price, no ads, Minetest is free and licensed-free (LGPL 2.1+)

Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like.

Features:
- Explore, dig and build in a voxel world, and craft stuff from raw materials to help you along the way.
- Play with your friends on public servers or self hosted servers
- Easy plugin based Modding API used to add blocks, tools and features to the game.
- Voxel based lighting with gameplay consequences (light caves and buildings with torches)
- Almost infinite world and several beautiful map generators.
- Runs natively on Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Android
- Supports multiple languages, translated by the community.
- A constant development to add new functionalities for end-users

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“I have trouble installing it.”

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Re: Official Android build on Google Play

by nrz » Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:03

Warning, play store signature is wrong and the package name was also wrong. Everything is fixed in 0.4.12.7 but please fix the link, the application will be available here when Google will validate it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... t.minetest
 

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Re: Official Android build on Google Play

by Don » Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:07

Awesome. Thanks everyone who worked on this!
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Calinou » Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:29

The APK is now available. Be sure to enable “Unknown Sources” in your device's security settings in order to install it.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Bonny » Sun Mar 15, 2015 09:20

I installed it but whenever i tried to open it it kept telling me minetest has stopped working and never opens any idea why?
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Nathan.S » Sun Mar 15, 2015 19:53

It works great on my Dell tablet. Thanks a bunch for this.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Don » Mon Mar 16, 2015 03:05

The download from this page worked fine but the Google play one crashed on startup.
I have a nexus 4
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by nrz » Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:16

The problem is normally solved with 0.4.12.10 release.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Linuxdirk » Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:16

“infinite-world” … for very small types of infinity :D

Looks great!
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by nanepiwo » Mon Mar 16, 2015 21:53

YAAAAAAAY!!!!! Sorry for my over-excitement, but finally there is an official version :).

I like the screenshots, and hopefully more people will download the official version and not view it as a copy of Multicraft or Worldcraft or the millions of others.

To the site admins, you might want to update http://minetest.net/downloads

Once I edited the gui scaling, it worked great,......that is, less bugs and problems than before.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by nrz » Thu Mar 19, 2015 14:08

nanepiwo: done, thanks
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by mahmutelmas06 » Thu Mar 19, 2015 20:14

Game doesnt start. Only blue screen.

Motorola Atrix 4g
Cyanogenmod 7.2 ( Android 2.3.7 )
Screen size : 960x540
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by TortueGaming » Fri Mar 20, 2015 02:48

Did it get taken off the play store? It said "Item not found" when I visited the link.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Don » Fri Mar 20, 2015 04:45

TortueGaming wrote:Did it get taken off the play store? It said "Item not found" when I visited the link.

I tested the link and got the same.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by devmarth » Fri Mar 20, 2015 16:54

Finally. Now no more unofficial copies :)
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Nathan.S » Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:32

Don wrote:
TortueGaming wrote:Did it get taken off the play store? It said "Item not found" when I visited the link.

I tested the link and got the same.


I just checked the link provided in the first post, and everything looked right, I already installed it so I couldn't try installing it again, not sure why it's not showing for you.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Don » Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:37

Nathan.S wrote:
Don wrote:
TortueGaming wrote:Did it get taken off the play store? It said "Item not found" when I visited the link.

I tested the link and got the same.


I just checked the link provided in the first post, and everything looked right, I already installed it so I couldn't try installing it again, not sure why it's not showing for you.

Just checked and it is working again.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by Sokomine » Sun Mar 22, 2015 03:49

Hope it will get added to F-Droid as well as that's a place where it definitely belongs to.

The GUI scaling factor is a problem right now. I touched its buttons, and the gui got too large, without any way of resetting it. I had to edit the minetest.conf manually. Most phone/tablet users will not know about this possibility.

Also crafting was a bit strange. I've yet to figure out how to split stacks of items and do some actual crafting. Craft results (wood and later on sticks) did not appear immediately in the inventory but took further "clicks".
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by nrz » Sun Mar 22, 2015 09:02

Sokomine: the F-Droid process is on the way, talk with est31 on IRC for this :)
For the crafting bug you mention, if you are playing online it's a problem on master branch which has been solved yesterday
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play

by est31 » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:15

Now it's also available on the f-droid app store. There were some issues with ndk versions and f-droid's build machine being 32 bit and the android Makefile only supporting 64 bit, so it took some more time than the play store, but all are resolved now. enjoy!
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by Don » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:29

That is great. Thank you everyone.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by Sokomine » Mon Mar 23, 2015 21:57

est31 wrote:Now it's also available on the f-droid app store. There were some issues with ndk versions and f-droid's build machine being 32 bit and the android Makefile only supporting 64 bit, so it took some more time than the play store, but all are resolved now. enjoy!

That is great news! I'm sure a lot of people who are intrested in coding will see it on F-Droid. It's also a plus for that app store as it's rather short on games.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by Nathan.S » Tue Mar 24, 2015 04:07

Splitting stacks confused me as well but I figured it out. When you tap on am item it shows in the upper left corner pinch out over the space you want to put some of the stack. It takes a little getting used to but actually works pretty well.
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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by arifsaha » Sun Mar 29, 2015 14:23

Thank you for an official build!

Just a note, in F-Droid this seems to be uninstallable in x86, but it installs from Google Play. Any idea why?
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by nrz » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:40

The APK is for ARM not x86
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by arifsaha » Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:25

nrz wrote:The APK is for ARM not x86


In that case, I like to share that from the entry in Google Play it was installed on an x86 device (Dell Venue 7) and has been running properly. It even picked the configurations, mods, and single player world from previous 0.4.10 installation in that device.

Maybe the process of building it for Google Play involved compiling it for both platform? If that's true, and you can find the x86 APK, you can just publish that as the official x86 APK.

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by lightonflux » Tue Mar 31, 2015 04:21

Can someone add an image with onscreen buttons to the gallery?
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by est31 » Tue Mar 31, 2015 20:53

arifsaha, when you upload apk files to android, they are already built, either for ARM or for x86. As nrz is uploading those files, he knows best. Now either google has a way to compile bytecode from ARM to x86, or your device can somehow emulate ARM.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by nrz » Thu Apr 09, 2015 13:51

Google Play Store doesn't care about architecture, you give it a apk with a AndroidManifests and it recognize the architecture and supported phones directly.
 

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Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro

by Minetestforfun » Thu Apr 09, 2015 18:10

On F-Droid now ? G-r-e-a-t work !
 

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