Emacs for Android?

Emacs for Android?

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I do not use Android myself, but have some relatives that do. Could somebody clarify how one gets the latest Emacs for android builds, so I can share that info? I remember looking in Freedroid a little while back, but only 30.0.50 was available, even though .91 pretest had been released. Do the pre-tests have official android builds? Will there be an official build at the emacs production release?

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Re: Emacs for Android?

[W. Greenhouse via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Hi Christopher,

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, I do not use Android myself, but have some relatives that do. Could somebody clarify how one
> gets the latest Emacs for android builds, so I can share that info? I remember looking in Freedroid
> a little while back, but only 30.0.50 was available, even though .91 pretest had been released. Do
> the pre-tests have official android builds? Will there be an official build at the emacs production
> release?

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnAndroid documents the current
options.

Stable Emacs exists in Termux (a terminal emulator with runtime
environment and thousands of packages prefixed inside the private data
directory of its Android app), in X and non-X flavors.

Emacs30 with full Android touch interface can be got from Po Lu's page
at https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs. For the
moment the F-Droid package of the latter is significantly behind current
development.

Maybe F-Droid can be reminded to update their package of the Android
port--if not now, then as Emacs 30.1 reaches stable release. ;-)

Re: Emacs for Android?

[Po Lu]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, I do not use Android myself, but have some relatives that
> do. Could somebody clarify how one gets the latest Emacs for android
> builds, so I can share that info? I remember looking in Freedroid a
> little while back, but only 30.0.50 was available, even though .91
> pretest had been released. Do the pre-tests have official android
> builds? Will there be an official build at the emacs production
> release?

I'm publishing automatic daily builds here:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs