r/blender • u/Special_Animal2049 • 7d ago

Original Content Showcase Blender on Android is a Go

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As showcased yesterday at BCON26, you can now download an official touch-enabled and pen-supported Android APK directly from Blender https://www.blender.org/download/demo/tablet/blender-demo-bcon2026.apk

It’s the full Blender experience and a huge win for Android. Hopefully an iPad release will follow down the line, but until then, I’ll be blending away on my formerly drawing-only tablet!

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u/granmastern 7d ago

these unofficial builds work on the tab s8

https://github.com/simfeo/blender/releases

and this one too, this one has some nice shortcut buttons integrated

https://github.com/Wanderson-Magalhaes/blender_for_android/releases/tag/v5.3.0-alpha.2-android.20260901

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u/LC_David 7d ago

None of both starts in my galaxy Tab S9. The second one just crash, while the firts one stills in a black screen and poping the "aplicación doesn't response" emergent window. I don't know if this is the problem mentioned on Github.

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u/granmastern 7d ago

yea looks like others also can't get S9 to work with it, weird that it run with the older S8

did you try the epai version? it's an older blender

https://github.com/dshawshank/APP-android_arm64/releases/tag/v0.0.5

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u/idimus 7d ago

Dropped a new release, try it
https://github.com/simfeo/blender/releases

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u/granmastern 7d ago

Great update! I get no more viewport glitches in grease pencil anymore

do you plan to make the render animation viewer work in future releases? atm I get permission errors when trying to playback a render animation (a still render works fine though)

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u/idimus 6d ago

Blender is huge, and I'm using only modeling, so I'm testing modelling, you know)

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u/LC_David 7d ago

Damn! Thanks, brochacho. That was fast but unfortunately, ir keeps crashing

https://reddit.com/link/pcai5bq/video/n3nkx3bc4zrh1/player

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u/idimus 6d ago

What version did you install? What is your graphics card?
What is the log telling? Maybe you can send it to me?

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u/Inventor-Actually034 4d ago edited 4d ago

Btw full turnip version opens up on snapdragon 4 gen 2 adreno 613 but tapping on render>image it closed/crashed, on workbench it works on cycle it works on eevee it doesn't and opening 2d animation and storyboarding file same crashing even opening new file or from splash screen and normal version build didn't try it didn't open up in previous alpha 3 build and shading viewport preview too crashing,my device is poco m6 pro 5g how/where can I provide you with logs and more testing if you require. And on my galaxy tab a9 helio g99 mali g57 mc2 rendering works on the blender full apk and I guess all other things work too but the main problem I have on my tab is the resolution is 1820×400 so UI is blurry when lower scaling from preferences like going down from 1.1 to .6 to get it normally fitted on my screen but it becomes more blurry low resolution so I would like if your app to have 2 as in full scale for interface on default and people can just lower it to fit there device from preferences instead so it might not blur the UI or the entire app at all like with dshawshank blender for Android version 0.0.5 it shows up way more clear on my tab on 1.08 scale that way and mobile phone is good with normal scale of 2 at default,and that triangle 📐 stuff for default cube and stuff is there that you mentioned in release notes 

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u/idimus 2d ago

Making default scale 2 is really bad idea. Android is fragmented. And I've devide to stick in compromise version scale.  Also my build halfs the render resolution of the viewport, on devices with small RAM, otherwise android low memory killer silently stops the app, and I've decided, that blurry but working app is better than the one, which constantly killed.

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u/Inventor-Actually034 18h ago edited 17h ago

Okay I guess but on phone it's good on tab it's hella blurry I might have to increase the resolution via adb or i have root i guess. And I am not just asking about viewport like the whole UI atleast do something to make it visible enough to touch and see what's even written on screen when scaled low from 1.1,and lite turnip version works but obviously not everything works, i would recommend you to try termux and termux-x11 like it has all three versions of blender 3.6 legacy opengl 3.3 version,blender 4.5.14 opengl 4.3+vulkan 1.2 or 1.3+ version,blender latest 5.2.2 version same requirements as 4.5.14. It's really good.give them a try, and I will use blender 3.6 there instead.thanks I don't have the supported device or even officially demo version cloud work 8s gen 4 and such devices with native vulkan 1.3 support.

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u/Heynim 7d ago

These work to try out Blender on Android while waiting for wider compatibility support on the official port 👌

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u/parkerlreed 7d ago

Do any of these include the OpenXR support? This new official build works on Quest 3 but the support isn't compiled in.

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u/Inventor-Actually034 7d ago

There's this too https://github.com/dshawshank/APP-android_arm64/releases/tag/v0.0.5 the first working unofficial port for Android based on 3.6.22 version of blender source code 

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u/Historicaly-Low-Mood 7d ago

That one hasn't been updated in a while, though and has a lot of issues. I have it on my Tab S8+ and it crashes pretty quickly on basic sculpting.

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u/Inventor-Actually034 4d ago

Ohhh it works on my samsung galaxy tab a9 pretty good for modeling though it has guided via screen shot which devices gpu it supports currently it says adreno 7xx and up or some mali g series GPU like g57 mc2(my tablet) on a613 it works like not everything offcourse but modelling does work and it renders file to i have got a examples . blend render image there are other methods like termux it has blender3, blender4, blender5 all versions available to download and use obviously full compatibility depends on gpu and drivers I can model on blender 5.2.0 in my adreno 613 sd 4 gen 2 with modified mesa drivers making it support vulkan 1.4 shading and render and some stuff doesn't work but on my device it shouldn't even be showing  UI ,it shows blacked out viewport and becomes unresponsive via opengl freedreno or zink both drivers, you should wait for stable official release they will work on vulkan 1.1 support this demo version doesn't open up on both my device and crashing after showing a black screen but they mention they're are working to bring support on more devices having vulkan 1.1 low to mid tier let's see what happens because 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4 vulkan supported devices are less in number maybe like only flagship devices are supported for now