I was happy to find out a few weeks ago that it's possible to build GNU APL
on Android within the termux environment (a kind of Debian container that
runs inside Android). I forgot to capture the exact configure options I
used, as I was running out of storage on my phone so I had to remove the
SVN build tree afterwards; but it wasn't too strange. If anyone's curious I
can rebuild again and log what I had to do ( I think I had to edit one
#include statement somewhere, but I forget ...)

However I was stumped trying to find a good way to input APL as the only
APL keyboard I could find on the Play Store was a horribly-outdated thing
that didn't work at all.

Happily, I found out tonight via a tip from @Adám on https://apl.chat/ that
there's a fork of the "Hacker's Keyboard" with an APL language/layout and
it works really nicely!

https://github.com/dzaima/hackerskeyboard/blob/master/java/java.apk

The 5-row configuration gives all the APL symbols as expected with
long-press of each key, for a great mobile APL scratchpad!

-Russ

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