Variants on Android

[KesTheHammer]

After running

apt update

and then

apt install frogcomposband

I typed in frogcomposband and got this message:

frogcomposband: Angband needs an 80x24 'curses' screen

[Archenoth]

Oh good! You managed to get it~ ^^

That message means that Termux doesn't have enough space to show you the game. You can pinch the screen to zoom it out, or if you have an overlay keyboard (Or an external one), you can rotate the screen to be landscape. That should give you more screen real-estate

When your terminal can fit 80 characters horizontally, and 24 vertically, it should run..!

[KesTheHammer]

can you please lastly assist with adding the characters for the keyboard as discussed earlier. I am absolutely not Unix-literate.

[Archenoth]

For my layout, you should be able to just paste...

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Archenoth/0ef3a2eddb1ddebbcadc46aafc500984/raw/cb33e1fe5fddbcc22ab84e1960a520e9cde10879/termux.properties -P ~/.termux

...into your terminal and restart Termux. ("~" is your home folder, and ".termux" is the place a lot of configuration for the terminal goes. The wget is just downloading my config into that folder for the next time it gets read!)

If you get a message that wget doesn't exist, you can install it with "apt install wget", and then you can try the above again!

And if you aren't familiar with the Termux keybindings, Volume Down is like holding Ctrl, so Volume Down + X should save and quit when you're in any bands. You can also Volume Down + D to exit the terminal when you are at the command line.

I hope that's helpful! ^^
Unix stuff can be kinda confusing if you aren't familiar with it

[KesTheHammer]

Thank you very much. It works 100%.

[Archenoth]

Nice! Happy I could help~

I really should package a few more variants so that there's more than just frog and vanilla in the repos currently.

[Pete Mack]

Archeron-
The full Android port already has V 4.2.2, Frog (Selmiak), Sil-Q 1.4.2, and NPP 0.4.1 and 0.5.4
It's quite good.

[ionarevamp]

For my layout, you should be able to just paste...

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Archenoth/0ef3a2eddb1ddebbcadc46aafc500984/raw/cb33e1fe5fddbcc22ab84e1960a520e9cde10879/termux.properties -P ~/.termux

...into your terminal and restart Termux. ("~" is your home folder, and ".termux" is the place a lot of configuration for the terminal goes. The wget is just downloading my config into that folder for the next time it gets read!)

If you get a message that wget doesn't exist, you can install it with "apt install wget", and then you can try the above again!

And if you aren't familiar with the Termux keybindings, Volume Down is like holding Ctrl, so Volume Down + X should save and quit when you're in any bands. You can also Volume Down + D to exit the terminal when you are at the command line.

I hope that's helpful! ^^
Unix stuff can be kinda confusing if you aren't familiar with it

For me, using the wget option simply downloaded another version of termux.properties, leading me to have to delete the original via cd .termux from home directory and using rm termux.properties
Then I typed mv termux.properties.1 termux.properties to rename it
After that, it worked fine.

Another thing that I found is, if you want to use the same back key functionality as some other angdroid apps, you can set

back-key=escape

in termux.properties for convenience.