Matewawe

A beautiful, open-source chess app for Android.

Play chess your way — against a smart AI, solve daily puzzles, or challenge a friend nearby with no internet required.

Features

🤖 AI opponent with adjustable difficulty
🧩 Daily puzzles to sharpen your tactics
📶 Offline multiplayer — same device, Bluetooth, or local Wi-Fi/LAN
👥 Find players nearby automatically over Wi-Fi — no accounts, no servers
🌙 Clean, elegant UI that follows dark theme
🌍 Available in English, Russian, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, and Chinese
🔓 100% open source — no ads, no tracking, no Google dependencies

Screenshots

Installation

Download the APK for the version you want from releases/.
On your Android device, allow installs from unknown sources for the app you use to open the file (Settings → Apps → Special access → Install unknown apps).
Open the downloaded .apk file and confirm the install.

Or via adb:

adb install releases/Matewawe-v1.0.38.apk

Verifying a download

Compare the SHA-256 checksum against the value listed in CHANGELOG.md:

sha256sum releases/Matewawe-v1.0.38.apk

Repository structure

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├── releases/           # Versioned APK builds (Matewawe-vX.Y.Z.apk)
├── assets/              # Icon and README images
│   └── screenshots/     # App screenshots
├── CHANGELOG.md         # Per-version build dates, sizes and checksums
├── LICENSE              # GNU GPLv3
└── README.md

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.