lichess.org/mobile
Lichess mobile is the lichess.org official application. It is written in TypeScript, with a bit of Kotlin and Swift. It is a web application that access native SDK thanks to Ionic capacitor. The rendering library is mithril.js. It talks to a native Stockfish engine, supporting multiple variants, through a cordova plugin. Multi-variant chess library is brought by a JavaScript version of scalachess.
Required dependencies
- node latest LTS version
- ionic capacitor dependencies
Android:
- in addition to capacitor dependencies, android ndk for stockfish compilation (to install with Android Studio).
Initialize build
Make sure you installed all deps:
$ npm install
Capacitor needs the web app before update, so build it:
$ npm run build
Update capacitor:
$ npx cap update
Run in a browser
$ npm run serve
Will serve assets at http://localhost:8080
.
Once the server is running, browse to http://localhost:8080/www.
Be sure to Toggle Device Mode in your browser, or else you won't be able to click on anything.
Run in a device/emulator
The easiest way to do it is to open the native IDE. Capacitor has a command for that:
$ npx cap open
Advanced setup
See the wiki.