AndroidNoGo tutorial

 

AndroidNoGo acts as a client to the Internet Go Server (IGS) for go players who want to play when away from their computer. At any time of day or night, you can find hundreds of players playing and observing at the server. Simply go to the IGS menu and click to login.

Features:

  • Sound on request, hear your opponent make a move
  • SGF read and write
  • Mailing games in SGF format
  • Automatic login to server
  • Chat window
  • Play online or watch other games on IGS
  • Reload the game after being disconnected
  • Record your live games
  • Review previous games in the archive
  • Localized user interface. All menu entries and dialogs are available in several languages. The language will be chosen based on your locale automatically. (If you want to translate the messages into your language, please contact us)
  • Zoom mechanism to place stones in a fast and an accurate way
  • User interface for different resolutions/density
  • Load adjourned (interrupted) game
  • Get ongoing games list
  • Get online players list
  • Confirm move at request
  • Setting up personal flags (looking for a game, quiet, open for game…)

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Creating your personal Pandanet account:
The IGS registration page provides information on how to register your own account.
When you have created your account, enter your user name and password in settings view then, each time you launch the application in the future, you’ll log in with that user name. More about the Settings view…
Main window:
main window
It displays the main options. You can:
- Connect to IGS sever
- Edit or view a sgf file
- Setting the application behavior
- See this tutorial
- or Exit.

Next we’ll present the IGS option.

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IGS mode:
IGS option
In this window you can connect to IGS server by pressing the Login button. If you receive an error message check the user/password saved in Settings. The user must be a valid account on IGS. If the login is successful a info pop up will show the user name and the current rank like in the example below.

After a connection was established you can see the games list, players list or your adjourned games list.

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Games list:
Games list
Here you can find out what games are played on the server. Click the Refresh button to retrieve a new game list from the server. Press Menu (hardware button) for sorting the list by rank or by move number.

To filter the list you can press the search hardware button. The following window asks for a filter to use:

The result will be like in this image:

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Players list:
Players list
The system first ask you about the lowest/highest rank and status opened or not for the searched players.

Like in the games list, you can sort the players list by name or by rank and you can apply a filter by pressing the Search hardware button.

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Observing game:
Observing game
In order to observe a game, simple touch the game you want from the Games list. The game information is at the top of the screen and the game controls are at the bottom of the screen.
To  zoom-in, press the zoom button or touch the screen once on the location you want to observe in details. To zoom-out press again on the screen or press the zoom button.

At any time, by accessing the Menu you can save the game or you can change the application settings.

By default when the game ends, the system will propose you with the file name composed by the names of the players.

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Invitations:
Invitations
As long as you are connected to IGS and if a player is challenging you for  a game, a pop-up like this will inform you about it. Further you can ask for the player status by pressing the “Info” button.

You can accept, decline or modify the game conditions. After you’ve made the necessary changes press OK to send back your challenge and wait for an answer. If the opponent will accept, the game will start immediately.

You can also send a challenge to a player from the players list. A simple touch on the player will pop-up same window. Change the terms of the game as you like and press the Ok button. The game will immediately start when the other player accepts your challenge.

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Playing:
Playing
After an invitation is accepted the game will start in a new window.
To put a stone on the board, you simply touch the board. The first touch will zoom in and let you place a stone more accurately. The second touch will send the move to the sever. If you set the application to ask for a confirmation before sending the move, you must touch the screen again in the same place in order for the move to be sent to IGS.

If you are playing over the internet, the move will be sent first to the server and then will appear on your board (for this reason you will notice a small lag – it’s normal)
Press the menu button to see what other actions you can take during the game: pass, done (this is available after the game is finished and the dead stones were removed from the table), chat with the opponent, save the game, change the settings, adjourn, resign or undo the score if stones was wrongly removed on scoring mode.
While playing you can chose from settings a zoom-out to be automaticaly made after the move is sent to IGS. The game is entering in score mode after 3 consecutive pass. Tap the dead stones and then press the “Done” option from menu. After the opponent is sending to IGS the “Done” command, the game is closed and a pop-up window like the following is displayed:

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Chat:
Chat
Enjoy your chat while you play!
You can reach to chat window pressing the menu button from the play window. To send the message tap the input box after you write the message.

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Adjourned games:
If something goes wrong with your internet connection the game can be continued from “Adjourned games” after logging in again. Also the game can be adjourned while playing if the opponent agrees with that.

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SGF mode:
SGF mode
In this mode it’s not needed a connection to IGS. You can access the saved games list pressing “Load game”. To create a new sgf file, click the “Create board” button.

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Load game:
Load game
Here you can review your saved games. After loading the game

you can modify it and also the game information can be edited through the “Info” option from the game window Menu.

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Settings:
Settings
Visit this section to configure the AndroidNoGo client. On IGS you can observe, play and save games. For this you need a valid account opened before hand. If you don’t have a Pandanet account yet, you can register here. Here you can enter the name and the password you are using on the IGS server. You can also toggle the automail, open and looking options. Check the sound option if you want to hear the sound when the stone was put on the table. Also if after sending the move you want an automatic zoom out don’t forget to check the option. If you are playing an important game is preferable to check the “move confirm” option to avoid unwanted mistakes.

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Features in futures releases:

IQoid Team wish you good games!