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[0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Droid
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Sat Mar 14, 2015 16:45by Calinou
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
Join us !
Frequently asked questions
“I have trouble installing it.”Report bugs and other issues related to installation in this topic.
Re: Official Android build on Google Play
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Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:03by nrz
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
Re: Official Android build on Google Play
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Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:07by Don
Awesome. Thanks everyone who worked on this!
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sat Mar 14, 2015 18:29by Calinou
The APK is now available. Be sure to enable “Unknown Sources” in your device's security settings in order to install it.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sun Mar 15, 2015 09:20by Bonny
I installed it but whenever i tried to open it it kept telling me minetest has stopped working and never opens any idea why?
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sun Mar 15, 2015 19:53by Nathan.S
It works great on my Dell tablet. Thanks a bunch for this.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Mon Mar 16, 2015 03:05by Don
The download from this page worked fine but the Google play one crashed on startup.
I have a nexus 4
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:16by nrz
The problem is normally solved with 0.4.12.10 release.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:16by Linuxdirk
“infinite-world” … for very small types of infinity :D
Looks great!
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Mon Mar 16, 2015 21:53by nanepiwo
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/downloadsOnce I edited the gui scaling, it worked great,......that is, less bugs and problems than before.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Thu Mar 19, 2015 14:08by nrz
nanepiwo: done, thanks
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Thu Mar 19, 2015 20:14by mahmutelmas06
Game doesnt start. Only blue screen.
Motorola Atrix 4g
Cyanogenmod 7.2 ( Android 2.3.7 )
Screen size : 960x540
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Fri Mar 20, 2015 02:48by TortueGaming
Did it get taken off the play store? It said "Item not found" when I visited the link.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Fri Mar 20, 2015 04:45by Don
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Fri Mar 20, 2015 16:54by devmarth
Finally. Now no more unofficial copies :)
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:32by Nathan.S
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sat Mar 21, 2015 01:37by Don
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sun Mar 22, 2015 03:49by Sokomine
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".
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Sun Mar 22, 2015 09:02by nrz
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
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play
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Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:15by est31
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!
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:29by Don
That is great. Thank you everyone.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Mon Mar 23, 2015 21:57by Sokomine
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Tue Mar 24, 2015 04:07by Nathan.S
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Sun Mar 29, 2015 14:23by arifsaha
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?
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:40by nrz
The APK is for ARM not x86
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:25by arifsaha
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.
Thanks!
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Tue Mar 31, 2015 04:21by lightonflux
Can someone add an image with onscreen buttons to the gallery?
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Tue Mar 31, 2015 20:53by est31
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Thu Apr 09, 2015 13:51by nrz
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.
Re: [0.4.12] Official Android build on Google Play and F-Dro
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Thu Apr 09, 2015 18:10by Minetestforfun
On F-Droid now ? G-r-e-a-t work !