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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 accesses the native SDK, thanks to Ionic capacitor. The rendering library is mithril.js. It talks to a native Stockfish engine, supporting multiple variants, through a capacitor plugin. Multi-variant chess library is brought by a JavaScript version of scalachess.

• node latest LTS version
• ionic capacitor dependencies

Android:

• in addition to capacitor dependencies, android ndk for stockfish compilation (to install with Android Studio).

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

$ 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.

The easiest way to do it is to open the native IDE. Capacitor has a command for that:

$ npx cap open

See the wiki.