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I would like to practice mathematica programming on an android phone. Is there a site I can consult that gives feedback on how to go about it and running speed?

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    I had no idea Mathematica can be installed on smart phones as well. This is good to know, I always assumed it is only available for windows, mac and Linux on the PC only. You probably need lots of memory on your smart phone for this, might be a little slow also? I would suggest at least 8 GB Ram for it. – Nasser Jul 09 '20 at 15:48
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    @Nasser Can it though? There's the Wolfram Cloud app, but it runs in the cloud, not on the phone. – Szabolcs Jul 09 '20 at 16:42
  • @Szabolcs I assumed it can, since the OP is asking about running Mathematica on smart phone. As I said in my comment, I did not know Mathematica could run on the smart phone. I have not really been up to the latest technology trends myself. – Nasser Jul 09 '20 at 17:05
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    I did a little bit of research on this, and it looks like @Szabolcs is correct. Mathematica does not run on smart phone, but there is an app app/wolfram-cloud only. So It does not look like you can do Mathematica programming on the smart phone at this time. Sometime ago, I read that Mathematica will have a release on the IPAD. I do not know what happened with that as well. I do not keep up with these things. – Nasser Jul 09 '20 at 17:27
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    There is an approach to install and run Mathematica on an android smart phone. The key is installing a Linux virtual machine on your smart phone and installing a free Mathematica running in Raspberry Pi. I installed one long time before and it's useless. If you can understand Chinese you can visit https://tieba.baidu.com/p/4839429399 for more details. The link of the files is https://pan.baidu.com/s/1kVoDjjp and the access code is skhq – Jie Zhu Jul 09 '20 at 19:17
  • You can write new content with the cloud version. I far as I know, running content locally is currently only available for iOS. – Gustavo Delfino Jul 10 '20 at 13:13
  • There is a Mathematica build for Raspberry Pi OS. That is mainly a Debian build on ARM platform. Can it be ported to run on a typical Android, which already comes with a Linux kernel on ARM? – Chongkai Zhu Jan 24 '21 at 14:32

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There is a Mathematica build for Raspberry Pi OS. In essence that is a version of Mathematica for Debian OS on ARM platform. I can verify that the following works:

  1. Install Debian on Android using UserLAnd, which by default thinks it runs on arm64 architecture (I'm using an arm64 android device).
  2. Add armhf architecture by running "dpkg --add-architecture armhf"
  3. install Mathematica. apt install mathematica.deb file seems to be missing something, but I can force open the deb archive, and extract all files.
  4. Mathematica runs.

No virtual machine is used here, so Mathematica is running natively on Android.

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  • I assume only the command line version runs, and perhaps many parts are broken? Can it export graphics? – Szabolcs Feb 03 '21 at 14:13
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    You are right: only MathKernel runs. It can't export graphics, which requires Mathematica frontend. But all non-frontend feature of Mathematica I tried so far is working. – Chongkai Zhu Feb 19 '21 at 05:59
  • Hey. Thanks for posting this. I installed all necessary libs, but I got still

    kirill@localhost:~$ wolfram ERROR: ld.so: object '/support/libdisableselinux.so' from /etc/ld.so.preload cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. /opt/Wolfram/WolframEngine/12.3/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Linux-ARM/WolframKernel: error while loading shared libraries: libopenblas.so.0: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

     – Kirill Vasin Feb 27 '22 at 00:20
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If you have access to Wolfram Cloud, you can run the Wolfram Cloud app which is basically Mathematica.

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