On 23/02/2023 09:44, Matevz Leskovsek wrote:

Hi all, as I remember all those PD on Android platforms (mobmuplat, pddroid) only allowed running patches and not editing those, meaning that one needed a desktop computer to create and edit patches. Is this still the case or is it possible now to use Android device for creating and running pd patches. Thanks!

Here's what I have done once on my Android tablet (running Android 7 if I remember correctly) as an experiment:

1. install f-Droid app repository
2. from f-Droid, install UserLAnd and TSVNC
3. within UserLAnd, install Debian
4. within Debian in UserLAnd, install XFCE4, tigervncserver, and xvkbd,

as well as puredata 5. within Debian, launch "vncserver -geometry (width)x(height)" where the dimensions match your screen in landscape orientation 6. in Android, launch TSVNC 7. in TSVNC, connect to localhost 8. in XFCE connected via VNC, launch xvkbd from the menu so you can type with the touchscreen 9. start a terminal and launch pd, so you can see error messages

this set up does NOT include sound, I did get sound working once by using PulseAudio RTMP streaming, and connecting to the localhost stream from VLC running on Android, but the latency was several seconds so I gave up on that idea, and I forgot the details.

I can't remember if Gem worked, maybe I needed to set the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 , performance might suffer in that case.

to transfer files, the /storage/x/ folders in UserLAnd map to Android/data/tech.ula/data or something similar

Claude

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