DroidFish is an Android port of the very strong Stockfish chess engine, combined with a feature-rich graphical user interface.
Features:
- Opening books: Internal, polyglot, CTG, ABK
- Clocks
- Analyze mode
- Two player mode
- Edit board
- PGN import/export/edit
- FEN/EPD import
- Adjustable playing strength
- One Touch Moves
- Blindfold mode
- Color themes
- Animated moves
- Scid DB support using "Scid on the go"
- Highly configurable
- Third party UCI engines
- Configurable UCI engine options
- Support for "open exchange" engine apps, such as texel and komodo 8.
- Gaviota endgame tablebases
- Syzygy endgame tablebases
- Free, GPLv3
Source code is available from my web page.
The following permissions are used:
Modify/delete SD card contents
To save games to SD card
Full internet access
To optionally communicate with network chess engines
Control vibrator
To optionally vibrate after computer makes a move
Version 1.84
- Update Stockfish to development version 280920.
- Improve move probability calculations for CTG books.
- Update translations.
Version 1.83
- Update to Stockfish development version 200920, featuring NNUE evaluation.
- Add link to DroidFish manual from About/Help dialog.
Version 1.83
- Update to Stockfish development version 200920, featuring NNUE evaluation.
- Add link to DroidFish manual from About/Help dialog.
Version 1.82
- Set engine strength in terms of Elo. Available in left drawer menu for supported engines.
- Support for ABK (Arena) opening books.
Version 1.82
- Set engine strength in terms of Elo. Available in left drawer menu for supported engines.
- Support for ABK (Arena) opening books.
Version 1.81
- Fix layout problems in color picker for some screen sizes.
- New configurable button action: Load game from PGN file.
Version 1.81
- Fix layout problems in color picker for some screen sizes.
- New configurable button action: Load game from PGN file.
Version 1.80
- Improve editing of PGN comments.
- Add RGB input support to the preferences color picker.
- File browser support when setting UCI options and file/directory preferences settings. (Requires external file browser.)
Version 1.80
- Improve editing of PGN comments.
- Add RGB input support to the preferences color picker.
- File browser support when setting UCI options and file/directory preferences settings. (Requires external file browser.)
Version 1.79
- Move input using drag and drop.
- Copy analysis information to clipboard.
- Autosave games before deleting them.
The 20 most recent autosaved games are kept.
Older autosaved games are automatically deleted.
Version 1.79
- Move input using drag and drop.
- Copy analysis information to clipboard.
- Autosave games before deleting them.
The 20 most recent autosaved games are kept.
Older autosaved games are automatically deleted.
Version 1.78
- Update to Stockfish 11.
Version 1.78
- Update to Stockfish 11.
Version 1.77
- Handle pasting of multiple PGN games into DroidFish.
- Improve behavior when searching/filtering PGN games.
- Restore "delete file" action.
- Add a user manual.
Version 1.77
- Handle pasting of multiple PGN games into DroidFish.
- Improve behavior when searching/filtering PGN games.
- Restore "delete file" action.
- Add a user manual.
Version 1.76
- Change settings view to work better for Android 4.x.
Version 1.74
- Fix incorrect rendering of chess pieces.
- Support for alternate chess piece sets.
- New button action to toggle tablebase hints.
Version 1.73
- Update to Stockfish 10.
- Allow changing the user interface language.
- Simplified Chinese translation.
- Translation updates.
Version 1.73
- Update to Stockfish 10.
- Allow changing the user interface language.
- Simplified Chinese translation.
- Translation updates.
Version 1.72
- Update to Stockfish 9.
- Show selective search depth in the status area when the engine is thinking.
Version 1.72- Update to stockfish 9.- Show selective search depth in the status area when the engine is thinking.Version 1.71- Updated stockfish engine to development version from 2017-09-06.- Korean and Turkish translations.
Version 1.71- Updated stockfish engine to development version from 2017-09-06.- Korean and Turkish translations.Version 1.70- Ukrainian and Belarusian translations.
Version 1.70- Ukrainian and Belarusian translations.Version 1.69- Fixed crash in android 7 when handling large PGN games.Version 1.68- Support for multi windows in android 7.- Various crash fixes.
Version 1.69- Fixed crash in android 7 when handling large PGN games.Version 1.68- Support for multi windows in android 7.- Various crash fixes.Version 1.67- Fixed crash in text to speech support.- German translation updates.
