Blender on Android?

Long time ago, there was demonstrations of blender on Android.
With phones now more powerful and have more RAM, would it be nice to have a portable option to blend with?
There are slates with active pens, and a number of graphics tablets with Android support.

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It’s my pet project to port Blender to OpenGL es and call it Wisk.

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Agree blender 2.8 will be really amazing on Android especially now that mobile hardware it’s pretty powerfull and quite cheap, they have tons of ram 6-8gb ram now it’s standard on Android phones ,
Hopefully someone will push this idea

Please do it :pray:

Blender already works on Android, just that it is very slow however you can use it to impress unsuspecting friends.

You can use chroot Linux installation to install the Arm version of Blender.

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It’s slow because it’s not running natively :wink:

It is running natively, Chroot is not emulation. It is the display drtivers that is the issue. I had to use software opengl when I used it. I think it was some Mesa driver for Arm.

I did not try this but rendering with the headless Arm version should be as fast as it can get on an Arm version, since no display needed.

And where does one get HOLD of this ARM version? :slight_smile:

Last time I tried it was couple years ago, but you can get the arm version of Blender either by compiling it on an Arm device or cross compiling or from one of those Arm Linux distros, see if one of those Raspberry Pi repositories has it. You will also need all other dependencies.

You can also try compiling it under Termux on Android.

Bear in mind that you can’t just run it like an .apk on Android. You need to be in a Linux terminal under Android or a Linux Desktop running its own Xserver and such.