anDGS

anDGS is a client for the Dragon GoServer and a sgf recorder, reviewer and editor. Currently not on the Play store due to Google API level upgrade needed. The fixes are in development and testing. 4/21/2020

Key Features:

Client for Dragon Go Server

• Complete game play functions:
  • Set handicap
  • Play moves
  • Pass, resign or delete game
  • Score
  • Play ahead (predict moves) - start notifier for full feature
• Basic Waiting Room functions
  • List available Waiting Room games
  • Join a game
• Auto option (Check for Moves) to help sequence through waiting games and messages
• Notifier to prompt for available games and messages
  • Notifier will play the predicted moves in the background
  • preferences for a permanent icon and auto start on app start
• Game lists of your games:
  • Running games
  • Finished games
  • Observed games
  • Multi-player (Team) games
  • Games can be downloaded from list to client for viewing
• Open displayed game in editor to try out variations then return back to player
• Message features
  • View Messages
  • Send a normal message to another user or reply to a normal message
  • Accept or Reject game invitations
  • View and dismiss Bulletins
• user features
  • View info
  • View rating graph, redirected to browser
  • Find user, redirected to browser
  • Invite to play (currently Fischer time only)
• Enter move comments, short press to type, long press on comment to get to an editable list of canned comments
• Some other functions are/can be redirected to the proper browser page
  • Game negotiation
  • Message with embedded html
• Game Notes can be displayed/edited with an app preference
• Status Game order (preference)

Local recorder/viewer/editor:

• Supports most standard sgf markup and labels
• sgf games can be loaded from websites or local files system and saved to local file system
• Start new game
  • Fixed or free handicap
  • Whole or half point Komi
• Scoring
• Reviewer with auto step through moves or guess the next move; can review one game or all the games in a directory
• Game controls:
  • Fast forward/backward
    • Short press to move a configurable number of moves
    • Long press to go to beginning or end
  • Forward/backward
    • Short press next/previous move
    • Press and hold to automatically step forward/backward for as long as button is held
  • Up/down variations
• Editor modes:
  • Browse
    • Touch a stone to go to that move
  • Edit
    • Add/delete stones/variations
  • Markup
    • Add/change/remove markup symbols and labels
  • Guessmove
    • Guess the next move
  • Autoplay
    • Automatically cycle through the moves
• Features for live tournament recording:
  • Auto saves a recovery file if accidentally exit app
  • Replace a earlier miss-placed move: Go to move, touch somewhere else and select "Replace one move" from the popup
  • Quickly remove the last move by touching it, then play somewhere else

General:

• Board sizes 5x5 - 25x25
• Optional coordinates on board
• Move entry modes:
  • Touch to zoom to area and touch to place move
    • Zoom sizes 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13
  • One touch option for tablet users
  • Touch and slide the stone
  • D-pad for early devices
• Portrait or landscape layouts
• Several color themes
• Select-able stone graphics: Clam shell and monochrome print look
• Predefined Wood grain, plain white or brown color boards as well as Pick any color.
• Label previous moves
  • 0 - no move numbering
  • -1 to -9, negative numbering, useful for seeing the moves going backward while playing
  • 1 to 99, positive numbering, similar to diagram numbering

Where to get it:

• Google Play
• Authors Download page

Remarks

[1] needs "External" storage, if saving/reading games