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eReader Games

This is a successor of the python game collection and framework at https://sourceforge.net/p/pirobot.

This gonna be a collection of board games for two or more players, which you can load on your eInk Reader.

It's made as much black&white as possible and only draws the screen if something happened.

Target device is a Tolino Vision 2, but you can run it on almost every Android-based device.

UPDATE: It will NOT run on a Vision 2 because its Android Version is 4.4.2 and the minimum version for .NET MAUI is 5.0.
I could not find information about other Tolinos Android version. There will be updates here. I know, the newest ones run on pure Linux. There will be a pure Linux-project later or you may try to run the above mentioned PiRobot Framework. (Which is NOT made for eInk-Readers - it updates the graphics continuousely which is not so good for eInk displays.) I will look what runs on them when I have such a device.

Tolino Install

To install APKs on a (Android-based) Tolino without rooting the device, you must copy the APK file (see Releases folder) to the root folder of the device via cable, then enter Debug Mode on the Tolino and install it from there.

Here is how you get into Tolino Debug mode.

To start the Apps (APKs), you may need another Launcher than tolinoOS.
I used the simple-ink-launcher.
Just install it like any other apk. It may give you an error after installing, that it did not work; but when I restarted my Tolino, it started properly.

Because the Tolino Launcher will not go back to the simple-ink-launcher when it is once started, I also installed the KOReader, to read books out of the simple-ink-launcher and be able to get back to it.

Projects

[APK_DOTNET_MAUI] is the Android based version of this App collection. Maybe there will be more, other based projects, like for the reMarkable which is pure Linux based. For normal computers, use the Python based PiRobot-Project or compile this project for Windows machines by yourself.

Project Members:

• Benedict Jäggi (admin)