In some Android chess GUIs like DroidFish you can configure both local and remote UCI enginees. But unfortunately my preferred chess GUIs like "Analyze This Pro" or "Chess PGN Master" allow only local UCI engines.
My question is if there is an Android app that works as a generic UCI bridge between any chess GUI and a remote (Linux) engine?! This app would look like a local UCI engine and therefore it could be used in any chess GUI app. The UCI parameters would be configured in this "bridge" app, and it's only job is to act like a proxy between the local GUI and the remote engine via tcp.
Is there already such an Android app somewhere? And do you see any technical obstacles? Is it easy to develop such an Android app?
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Yes, but there only the server side is addressed. On the client side you have to use a GUI which allows to connect to a remote engine (Chess for Android, DroidFish, etc.).
The 'connect.exe' program performs this function (bith on server and client side), but I have no idea if it would also work on Android (when compiled for it).
hgm wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:30 pm
The 'connect.exe' program performs this function (bith on server and client side), but I have no idea if it would also work on Android (when compiled for it).
Hi H.G. Muller,
where can I find this 'connect.exe' program? In the link mentioned above I see only 'engineClient' and 'engineServer'. Do you have another source?
