Folding@Home Client Control Android App

[GlitchLoading]

Hello! I'm new to F@H and was poking through the third party tools section when I came across this. I'm very interested in using it but it seems I can't as my Android is a newer version that is not compatible with the app. I was curious if you had any plans to bring the app up to speed for this version?

Device: Samsung Galaxy S24+
Android Version: 14

[calxalot]

FAH version 8 just uses your web browser and works with mobile browsers.
An Android app is not needed.

[sohang3112]

> FAH version 8 just uses your web browser and works with mobile browsers.

@calxalot Yes but how to actually download & install it on Android?? Even if web browser is frontend, surely there must be an app install requirement for backend at least?

[Joe_H]

There is no install involved in using the control function, it just connects through a browser window to a F@h server to run Javascript code. No client code would get install on Android, that is not supported for folding. But the web app can be used to control folding on other systems such as Windows, Linux, or macOS.

[sohang3112]

>No client code would get install on Android, that is not supported for folding. But the web app can be used to control folding on other systems such as Windows, Linux, or macOS.

@Joe_H thanks for clarifying. The docs should mention this, that folding is not supported on Android right now.

Also, I am a software engineer and would like to make an Android app for FAHClient so that folding can happen on Android. Should I raise any Github issue for this? https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues repo is deprecated - it says to raise issues on either server or web client repo, but this doesn't fit either of those.

[muziqaz]

>No client code would get install on Android, that is not supported for folding. But the web app can be used to control folding on other systems such as Windows, Linux, or macOS.

@Joe_H thanks for clarifying. The docs should mention this, that folding is not supported on Android right now.

Also, I am a software engineer and would like to make an Android app for FAHClient so that folding can happen on Android. Should I raise any Github issue for this? https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues repo is deprecated - it says to raise issues on either server or web client repo, but this doesn't fit either of those.

App is not an issue on android anymore.
V8 Fahclient is accessible from any phone.
But there is no android version which would actually run on ARM based phones.
GitHub issue will not help here as there are no plans to support Android as there is no benefit to support it. FAH is not equipped to support or does not need work which could run on Android devices. They are simply too weak compared to modern desktop hardware, they are too power constrained, and they use big.shittle design which is horrible for FAH type of workloads. We tried once, and outcome was pure catastrophy from performance point of view
So it is safe to say, folding will not happen on Android.