[Sugar-devel] How to add activities to Sugarizer on Android

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:08:14PM +0200, Evert Groenewald wrote:
> On 2019-03-04 20:12, Alex Perez wrote:
> > Evert,
> >
> > Evert Groenewald wrote on 3/3/19 11:06 PM:
> >> Hallo List
> >>
> >> I have installed Sugarizer from F-Droid to my phone and would like to
> >> know how to go about adding additional activities. I would like to add a
> >> chess activity for instance. On the OLPC it is easy to add activities.
> > Actually, it's not just on the OLPC side...it's just as easy to do
> > this with The Fedora-based Sugar on a Stick installations of Sugar,
> > which is available for armhfp (Pi3+), i386 and x86_64. Of course, it's
> > not Android, but the OLPC is far from the only way to make use of the
> > Sugar environment.
> 
> Hi Alex
> 
> Sorry, I've been busy, and have not had time to read email.
> 
> I have seen that Sugar is available for the platforms you mention, I
> have focussed on Android because it is always in your pocket (mostly).
> And it can be given to a child to keep busy when you are somewhere
> waiting for whatever and the kids are bored and difficult.
> 
> Which is why I would like to have the chess activity included. Chess is
> being done after hours at school and this will be a good way to get the
> kids to practice.

Thanks, that's interesting.

We have a Chess activity, also known as Ajedrez.  However, it is
written in Python, and this prevents it from being used on
Sugarizer.

https://github.com/sugarlabs/ajedrez-activity

For the future, a Chess activity in JavaScript may be written.  We
have an idea for Google Summer of Code where that work could be
facilitated.

https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#create-a-new-set-of-activities

> 
> Evert
> 
> 
> >> Here it is not that obvious. I have read some of the informantion in the
> >> wiki and searched in the archives of the mailing lists, but I am still
> >> not clear on whats steps to take to accomplish adding additional
> >> activities on android.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Evert
> >
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