[GAP Forum] GAP on Android

[Marek Mitros]

Hello William

I can write short instructions how I made GAP working on my mobile and
send to the GAP community. GAP owners can decide whether it is worth
publishing on web or no.

Note however that I am just a user. GAP for Android were compiled by
Matan Ziv-Av, who post on this forum as well. I have downloaded GAP
version compiled on Android from his page my.svgalib.org. I have also
used many instructions from him to cope with Android Linux problems
with access rights to files, etc. on my Sony Ericsson Xperia. You need
to first have installed some terminal application on which GAP session
can be started. For some reason Linux script 'copylink' prepared by
Matan did not work properly, so I have executed manually commands from
it line by line.

GAP installation should be placed on SD card where usually we have
more space then on phone internal memory. Unfortunately on SD card we
cannot execute programs, so binary files should be located in internal
memory and symbolic links created to the GAP folders located on SD
card.

I have created 100 MB size installation of GAP. I have removed most of
the packages and library of small groups. If I need this in future I
can just copy new folder to my SD card and make symbolic link to the
folder from phone memory. If package contains bin subfolder with some
executable than additionally we should copy it to phone memory.

Regards,
Marek

P.S. I have tested that I can use "atlasrep" groups when I copy proper
files to the datagens subfolder ! They are not dowloaded automatically
since I get some "wget" error,
On 9/12/12, William DeMeo <williamdemeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Marek,
>
> I for one would be interested in knowing how you accomplished this.
> Perhaps you would be willing to put together a short webpage with some
> instructions? ...and maybe this page could be linked to the
> www.gap-system.org page?
>
> Sincerely,
> William
>
>
> --
> William J. DeMeo, Ph.D.
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> Department of Mathematics
> University of South Carolina
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>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Marek Mitros <marek at mitros.org> wrote:
>> Dear Forum,
>>
>> I am happy to inform that I was able to start GAP session on my mobile
>> today.
>>
>> Thank you to Matan Ziv-Av who help me out with this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marek
>>
>>
>> On 9/7/12, Marek Mitros <marek at mitros.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using mobile phone with Android OS. Is there way to obtain
>>> installable .APK file from GAP community which contains GAP bounded
>>> with terminal application. I have tried to install GAP for Android
>>> offered by Matan on this forum but no success. I have no rights to
>>> execute files on SD card and I have no permissions to copy files to
>>> internal memory of the phone. The solution would be to have
>>> installable .APK file.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Marek Mitros
>>>
>>
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