Hey all! I thought you all might be interested. I’ve recorded some video demos showing running Blender on a Samsung Galaxy S9 Android. I did this perhaps 5 years ago but never bothered to share, and so I figured late is better than never
You can very easily get a native Linux running on any Android device, and so by extension it is very easy to compile Blender (and other programs!) that support ARM.
I’m running Blender 2.72b on KitKat Galaxy Tab 3 lite
8GB internal 1GB Ram
A little slow, but it worked fine for simple design.
STEP 1: Go to Google Play Store and install GNURoot Debian. You can download apk. Just make sure your internal memory free about 850MB to install.
STEP 2: Install Hacker’s Keyboard
STEP 3: Launch Virtual Machine (computer button)
STEP 4: Touch the 3 dots button and switch to Input Track pad mode.
STEP 5: Install blender by click the terminal and entering: apt-get install blender
STEP 6: entering: Y
STEP 7: When the terminal back to receive input state (install completed) click at the wall screen and select exit
STEP 8: Launch virtual machine then click main screen and go to App → Graphic → Blender
STEP 9: Wait until it display frame placing, just click and wait until it in.
If nothing happen after install blender and reboot the machine, or can’t boot the virtual machine, you can uninstall and install agian (sometimes got unknown error)
You can install inkscape by entering: apt-get install inkscape
Unless I’m mistaken, the “S” series of phones can become a computer, by using the “DeX” dock! So, together with a phone, you get a full fledged Blender machine - an attractive proposition for quite a few people, I’d think!
