Re: Twine for Android?

[Stormrose]

No plans that I'm aware of, unless somebody is keeping something quiet.

I do quite a bit of my Twine stuff using an iPad and keyboard.... what I actually do is run a text-editor that saves .twee files to DropBox.

I used to then use a remote desktop client to run switch to Twine running on my desktop and trigger a build from there.

(What I do now is: I have a test-version of Twine with an "AutoBuild" feature that keeps checking DropBox to see if a file has changed and triggers a rebuild. It's in very very early testing for me though)

If you can run python2 on your 'droid then you could just switch to using Twee (commandline version of twine).

.twee files are similar to .tws files: except that they are in text format with each new passage starting with.

::PassageTitle [tags]

Passage text and all that twine code you already know. [[Another Passage]]

::Another Passage

Yep.

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On Thursday, January 3, 2013 7:25:23 AM UTC+13, Facundo Mounes wrote:

I don't posses a portable win/mac machine but an android tablet with keyboard (Asus Transformer), and want to create twine stories on a long trip I'm planning. Is there any plan to / port / compatible soft that works on android?

Thanks for doing this great software :)

[Christopher Liu]

I can publish something to Android. Eventually as an app, currently web-only.

If you're in a hurry and looking to produce an app as a one-off, let me know. :)

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[Melonshead]

Hey, I am the opposite here. I have a desktop, but no mobile device. Are you able to view and play the Twine Games on your mobile units? I'm trying to determine this via survey of people with the mobile machines...
Thanks,
Melanie

[Facundo Mounes]

Thanks for the response! I'm going to try doing it from a text editor as Stormrose propose, but I don't know if a will have access to internet to run my PC from a remote desktop. I'm taking a long trip to a remote location in brazil in about a month, I suppose can write all the text and then pass it to twine when I came back :)

Chris, you are really helpful! Sadly I don't posses any programming knowledge to collaborate producing an app, how can I help? :(

[Stormrose]

Twine stuff runs on my Android phone and iPad. SugarCane and Jonah aren't without their problems and I often have to scroll and zoom to make it work.

I've been working on a new story format called Responsive that scales automatically for devices 320px wide mobile up to desktop screen sizes. It works ok - and is based on Sugarcane.

See: http://eturnerx.com/fot/The%20Future%20of%20Twine.html#!NewFormats

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[Christopher Liu]

Well, actually in a way you'd be helping me out - I have the basic Android conversion working but I need a story to test it on. :)

Unfortunately, it is a story player, not an editor, which is what you would need to work on stories. I would second Stormrose's recommendation for a text editor. Looking forward to seeing more responsive stuff?

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[Facundo Mounes]

Sorry it take it so long to reply! Work was in the way :(

I not have problem to work with a text editor and check functionality
with a player. With what level of code I should work for it to make it
run? (maybe it is better if I work in the story and then I pass it to
Twine when I'm back home)

On Jan 7, 7:57 pm, Christopher Liu <ch...@adventurecow.com> wrote:
> Well, actually in a way you'd be helping me out - I have the basic Android
> conversion working but I need a story to test it on. :)
>
> Unfortunately, it is a story player, not an editor, which is what you would
> need to work on stories. I would second Stormrose's recommendation for a
> text editor. Looking forward to seeing more responsive stuff?