Portal Checkers

A touch-friendly checkers game made for Facebook Portal devices.

Portal Checkers is a landscape Android checkers app built for sideloaded Meta Portal / Facebook Portal hardware. It supports local two-player games and play against the computer, with large touch targets and a layout designed for the Portal screen.

Features

• Play checkers against the computer
• Two-player local mode
• Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels
• Forced-capture rules and multi-jump support
• Large landscape board for Portal touchscreens
• Sound effects for moves, captures, kinging, and wins
• Works without Google Play Services

Portal Compatibility

• Package: com.portal.checkers
• Minimum SDK: Android 9 / API 28
• Target SDK: Android 10 / API 29
• Launcher support: standard launcher and leanback launcher
• Google services: not required

Install

Download the latest APK from the GitHub release, then install it with metavr:

npx -y metavr app install -r portal-checkers.apk
npx -y metavr app launch com.portal.checkers

Stable APK URL for catalogs:

https://github.com/GodricTM/PortalCheckers/releases/latest/download/portal-checkers.apk

Build From Source

Requirements:

• JDK 17
• Android SDK with build-tools installed
• Node.js 20+ if you use metavr

Build a debug APK:

.\gradlew.bat assembleDebug

Build a release APK:

.\gradlew.bat assembleRelease

For a signed release build, create keystore.properties from keystore.properties.example and run assembleRelease. The release APK will be written to app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk.

Screenshots

License

MIT