gobandroid GnuGo AI support

Based on the NDK part of Andreas Grothe' godroid I managed to add GnuGo AI support to gobandroid with v0.29
I'm more a java than a c guy and my time is very limited at the moment, thats why I had no time to dig into the NDK stuff - so special thanks to Andreas Grothe for the NDK work! I just had to make it work with NDK1.6 ( NDK 1.5 is not avialable any longer ) and change namings in the java bridge and it worked like a charm ;-)
Because gnugo is relatively big for an mobile application and not all users like playing a computer i splitted the GnuGo support to a diffrent apk which acts as a android service. This also opens the possibility to easily add other go AI's ( e.g. fuego ).

It's all GPL - here are the sources:
NDK Part
SDK Part

Gobandroid

When i got my first Android Phone ~2 months ago there was no goban for android yet - but i wantet some - so i started the opensource project gobandroid ( goban + android ;-)
I got a lot of feedback, that's one of the reasons why i am writing this blogpost. First of all thanx to the first contributor Ruth Hinckley aka Lironah for with first images ( i started with single color circles and lines ;-) See the difference:





Second thanx to the potential contributor shay raikin who wants to implement gnugo !-)
And last but not least thanx to all the mails with bugreports/ideas and greetinx.
There are not much features yet but even with these little featureset some users are just happy with it e.g. to write down games and save them to SGF.
Tonight I implemented something new - the skins are now saved to SD-Card with applications called gobandroid skinstaller ( skin + installer ;-) - These applications uninstall after they did the job of copying images to the sd-card - so there is not much Application Space is needed. Application Space is actually a big issue on android at this time. I have a lot of space on sd-card but lack space where i can install application. This needs to be fixxed on android but until then I'm going this workaround.




here is the code of gobandroid: http://github.com/ligi/gobandroid

the code is GPL licenced

and here is the code of the installer ( perhaps the uninstalling or the resources to SD-Card part is interesting for someone ) : http://github.com/ligi/gobandroid-skinstaller-lironah/

on my way to dan level ;-)

Nice Go Game

This is the game i played against seba after ~ 2 Days of no food much coffee and just a bit of sleep - but it worked pretty good ( i'm black as usual )