Minetest will not load on android

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Minetest will not load on android

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As the title says minetest will not load, the yellow bar goes across and then I get a gray screen. I'm using the dev version built from git by me this morning, I could this is a mistake on my behalf do to the fact that I also had the same problem with wayward one's builds. I think this is a problem of comparability with my tab. I'm I have a lenovo 2 A 10 running 5.01 (Android of course). I have a 1.7 GHZ processor and 2 GB of RAM. I would have done something on github but have no idea how that works so I just asked here. Anyways thanks for the help.
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Re: Minetest will not load on android

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Can you look into the logcat?

Just saying this to everybody asking for android build help: if you build minetest in order to re-brand it and put it onto the play store, you must follow the LGPL license, including having you to open source the engine part (mods are unaffected).

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Re: Minetest will not load on android

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Or you can just download one of the many Android versions found in play store.

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Re: Minetest will not load on android

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Daedric wrote:Or you can just download one of the many Android versions found in play store.
Which normally are laggy and have excessive adware and viruses...
Better download the official one from F-Droid!
In Play Store there are many unofficial (and illegally) "Minetests" because the simply fact that Minetest is free and open...
Have a nice day! :D

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Re: Minetest will not load on android

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MineYoshi wrote:
Daedric wrote:Or you can just download one of the many Android versions found in play store.
Which normally are laggy and have excessive adware and viruses...
Better download the official one from F-Droid!
In Play Store there are many unofficial (and illegally) "Minetests" because the simply fact that Minetest is free and open...
Yeah , F-Droid is definitely better, I agree.

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Re: Minetest will not load on android

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I figured out that I had to delete my minetest folder then installed my own build. The wiki doesn't say how to build the apk with the minetest_game, so I copy and pasted it from my Ubuntu laptop into the proper folder on my tab. Then I could generate a world and it would load and was great for two seconds. Then it printed a whole bunch of error messages which I'll post later. I think it may be the fact that I didn't build my apk with minetest_game or whatever it's called.
Edit: I found that when I built it I didn't have minetest_game cloned, I'll clone it and re-build.
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