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[Aart Bik]

Some valid points, although sometimes choices are historical, sometimes merely for user convenience.

As example of the first, Chess for Android started with UCI support in 2010 and added Win/XBoard support a bit later. And even though recently I showed that Polyglot for Android works just fine as well, there is no reason for me now to remove UCI support

As example of the second, PJ+'s utility has already been used for a long time to import remote chess servers into Chess for Android (so they are directly first class citizens). By popular demand, however, I also added built-in support for connecting a network socket. These built-in network engines were not first class citizens yet, and my posting merely served to announce that this would soon be resolved. But it is great to see a nice discussion going!