What changed, why it was broken, and what is still known to be wrong. Written as the work happens.
Audio through AAudio, Cycles denoising, and Principled BSDF materials that no longer render almost black. Two new Turnip builds carry Mesa's open Adreno driver, and the Wanderson Magalhaes touch and keyboard work is ported in.
Read this updateBlender required three GPU features ARM's Mali driver does not provide, and never used two of them. Every Mali device was turned away in silence before anything reached the screen. If an earlier build refused to start, try this one.
Read this updateIt now takes the prebuilt Android library set published by the Blender project. That single change is what brought back video, Cycles denoising, simulation, the exchange formats, 49 languages and every missing brush.
Read this updateTimeline audio, sound strips and speaker objects now play through the phone or headphones, in the Full build only. Holding a tool opens its variants, and the whole interface grew for fingers.
Read this updateAn experimental fork of the upstream port, shared for testing and development feedback. Full profile, arm64-v8a, target SDK 34, validated on a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and nothing else.
Read this updateThe first public build. Blender 5.3.0 Alpha on arm64 with a Vulkan driver, in two profiles, with S Pen support. On a Galaxy S22 Ultra the Full build peaked at about 1.9 GB resident.
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