Checkers for Android 2.0

[AartBik]

I just released v2.0 of Checkers for Android (the G1 phone).
New features include:

• Multiple screen sizes support (for upcoming new devices).
  Full screen board layout.
  More levels of strength.

Some screenshots at http://aartbik.blogspot.com/

[Marcel Kosters]

Hello Aart, this is very interesting! Are you already working on a 10x10 version (the international checkers version called 'draughts' and with more and more players
internationally from Senegal to Brazil to China to India. Will buy a new phone this next week and will take Android as a possibility into account. Best of luck with your project(s)!
Marcel

[Theo Dijkstra]

Aart Bik is ongeveer van de Erno Prosman generatie toen ik de provinciale damtraining deed in Gouda. Het zou heel goed kunnen dat Aart heeft mee gedaan aan schooldamwedstrijden die in Gouda toendertijd uitgebreid georganiseerd werden. Dus wellicht heeft Aart nog een warm plekje in zijn herinnering over dammen. Zou mooi zijn!

[AartBik]

I have no direct plans to implement a 10x10 version, but one never knows. I enjoy Android development, but just keeping up with feature requests for my other board games has consumed most of my spare time up until now. Also, with the increasing popularity of Android, I suspect the market will soon be flooded with much better versions than my own humble attempts.

Theo is right that 10x10 is the kind of "dammen" I grew up with, although I must admit that I joined the chess club across the hall of the checkers club in those days.

[Marcel Kosters]

Hi Aart,

10x10 applications sure will be an important reason for draughts players to buy an Android phone and of course it will popularize the game that has much more possibilities than 8x8 checkers. Nice to find through your weblog the page of Martin Fierz who apparently has a
program that can almost keep up with Kings Row, incredible!

Marcel

[Dr Checkers]

Hi Marcel,
If you're looking for a 10x10 application for Android, I just release this one: Dr Checkers
https://market.android.com/details?id=f ... drcheckers

[Marcel Kosters]

Congrats Axel! I have posted the news somewhere else as well, let's see what happens.
I decided to buy a Nokia N97 mini so am waiting for the Symbian version .

[Dr Checkers]

Thanks a lot Marcel. I'll see later for symbian: