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Author Topic: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely  (Read 4408 times)

Luponius

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Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« on: January 09, 2018, 04:51:48 pm »
I would like to play DF on my android phone while at work.  How viable is it?  I read a load of threads from a few years back but I don't know if any still work / what's the best known method.

Appreciate any help on this - I'm not picky, but I would love it if I could get the dfremote equivalent from iOS to Android.  No problem if I have to pay a one time fee either.
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jecowa

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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2018, 05:07:22 am »
I kind of want to get an old iPad to play DFRemote.
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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2018, 06:01:53 am »
Quote from: jecowa on January 10, 2018, 05:07:22 am
I kind of want to get an old iPad to play DFRemote.
Yeah me too.

Or develop an android soft with mifki's server. However i HATE phone apps : <
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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2018, 01:12:19 am »
install on Linux box at home, enable text-based graphics. start a gnu screen session and launch df within. use Android app ConnectBot to ssh to your home Linux machine, and then do "screen -x" to reattach to your gnu screen session.

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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2018, 01:23:43 am »
Quote from: daoist on January 11, 2018, 01:12:19 am
install on Linux box at home, enable text-based graphics. start a gnu screen session and launch df within. use Android app ConnectBot to ssh to your home Linux machine, and then do "screen -x" to reattach to your gnu screen session.

What if he's not on Linux?
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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2018, 01:49:47 am »
Then he can download it for free and run it off a flash drive or another partition or a virtual machine.
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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2018, 12:35:39 pm »
Quote from: KittyTac on January 11, 2018, 01:23:43 am
Quote from: daoist on January 11, 2018, 01:12:19 am
install on Linux box at home, enable text-based graphics. start a gnu screen session and launch df within. use Android app ConnectBot to ssh to your home Linux machine, and then do "screen -x" to reattach to your gnu screen session.

What if he's not on Linux?

Then he'll have to find another way. Which probably sucks more. :)

Note: I described the least crappy way to play DF remotely on your Android device. It's the way I do it. It is still pretty crappy.
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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2018, 01:00:18 pm »
Maybe Teamveiwer would be better than printing text mode? It would work with Windows and Mac.
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Luponius

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Re: Is it possible? What's the best way? Android remotely
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2018, 06:16:55 pm »
I might give the Linux VM suggestion a shot, it probably is the best option.
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