AndroidKnight

As a video presentation right here:

Very soon (in the next 2 hours) AndroidKnight 1.0.20 will be released. This breaking new update will have a definite impact on your experience for chess on your Android device.

What we’ve added are the following:

• The demo version became now a fully featured application, so you’ll have all the difficulty levels enabled by default, the option to run it full screen, etc. The full version became the “donate” version, so you can still support this application by donating money. There is no feature difference between the two versions.
• Updates are checked automatically from the web. If an update is available you’ll be notified via a dialog, with the possibility to update it from the market by a click of a button, and also you’ll be told what will you receive after updating.
• A new dialog that reports eventual crashes was introduced. If androidKnight crashes (for most cases at least) a dialog will open that will allow you to submit the error message to our bug database automatically.
• Minor performance updates in the chess engine itself.

I hope you’ll enjoy playing this chess game, at least as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it.

Stay tuned for the following updates,

b.m

PS: If you don’t have access to the market, but you do have access to the Internet, you can download the application from http://download.androidknight.com/latest/ ; it is the same version as the one published on the android market.

As you might already know, the source code of AndroidKnight is available, being released under GPL3, making it one of the few chess games (if not the only) free – as in freedom – on the Android platform.

You might clone the mercurial repository from here:

http://androidknight.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/androidknight/androidknight

and you can download a preconfigured virtual machine (with ubuntu 9.10, eclipse and android development tools installed, and eclipse configured to build and run androidknight) from here:

http://download.androidknight.com/androidknight-developer-machine/

All you need is VirtualBox, and you can import the virtual machine into it. It might work also under VMWare but I haven’t tested it.

Welcome to AndroidKnight!