tall hollow
Forge targets Android 8.0 and up, now being Christmas I've received the world's cheapest tablet that I really want to run Forge on but it is only Android 7
Easiest thing for me to do is build my own apk from source targetting Android 7, but I'd like the know if there are any dependencies I'd be missing and, it would never work.
Ie: do I "mileage may vary" and build for Android 7 or do I flash a custom rom to update this tablet to the 21st century? 😂
burnt pasture
Hopefully other devs may chime in eventually, but I know that this process has changed a bit over the last few months - one of our developers had been doing some custom build steps for Android, but it was very recently automated which means that (I hope) there's a clearly defined set of build steps somewhere.
tulip basin
The problem is targeting an older version of Android probably relies on a whole bunch of code changes
tall hollow
Thanks for the replies!
Automated would make it nice, I think it should be via the repo as there are dialy snapshots? Surely someone isn't manually maintaining that, and if they are kudos to them
And if there's some code changes, I'll fork and see how I go with it and make if available in case it could help someone else!
Worst part is this tablet advertised Android 12 😂
tall hollow
As an update to this -
the min SDK version is for android 4. So by all accounts it should work and I wrongfully diagnosed.
using an old version of Forge actually boots: 1.6.29.001.
Updating now
I found this on an old thread relating to low RAM devices which had this apk, which, my cheapo tablet clearly is. ADB reports a mere 1.5gb haha
tall hollow
I'm wrong again.
100% the Android 7 support.
1.6.42.001 release works, and is the last supported version.
I'll still stuff around with a fork, disabling/reverting as I go but I'm in zero hurry now that one works.
https://releases.cardforge.org/forge/forge-gui-android/1.6.42.001/