Minecraft Bedrock handheld port v2.0.0-rc.7

Superseded by v2.0.0-rc.8

Nothing here is broken — rc.8 is rc.7 plus a much better version browser:
holding up or down scrolls instead of one press per row, every build says
whether it is RenderDragon, Bedrock or Pocket Edition, which named update it
belongs to and whether its UI is tiny, and several places where menu text ran
into the lines around it are fixed.

Install rc.8 instead. Your worlds and installed versions are untouched by the
upgrade.

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Bedrock on your handheld. No game files are included — you supply your own
Google Play copy, and the helper below is how you get it.

If you are on rc.5 or rc.6, update. Those two will not start on a device
whose shared data directory is hidden (.minecraftbedrock-data), which is how
Knulli keeps it out of its recursive Ports inventory. They refuse to launch
rather than risk your data — but they refuse, and rc.4 did not. This release
fixes that and is otherwise identical to rc.6.

Which download?

You have	Take
Any normal PortMaster handheld	Standard edition
An Anbernic RG DS	RGDS edition (dual-screen, arm64 only)
A Windows PC, and no game files yet	Windows APK helper (.zip)
A Linux PC, and no game files yet	Linux APK helper (.AppImage)

Extract the port archive at the root of the storage holding your ROM folders,
refresh the Ports list, and launch Minecraft Bedrock once. Then use the
helper on a PC to download your own copy, put the files in
ports/minecraftbedrock-data/apk/, and choose Install APK.

Fixed

The port starts again on devices with a hidden shared-data directory. The
migration step understands both minecraftbedrock-data and the hidden
.minecraftbedrock-data once more. rc.5 and rc.6 shipped a version that knew
only the visible name and stopped with:

shared-data migration: …/apk points to unexpected target
Shared-data migration failed without overwriting user data.

Found by installing rc.6 on a real RG34XXSP that had been running rc.4 happily.

Also in this release, if you are coming from rc.4

The APK helper now runs on Linux

One file, about 26 MB: download it, chmod +x, run it. It works the same as on
Windows, minus the parts Windows only needs in order to have a Linux to run
in — no subsystem, no Ubuntu to install, so setup is two steps instead of four.
The downloader is still built on your own machine from
Google-Play-API, using
apt, dnf or pacman, with a single graphical authorisation. Only that package
install is privileged; the build runs as you.

The sign-in window uses your system's GTK/WebKit rather than bundling a browser
engine, which measured 525 MB against 58 MB for everything else.

The Windows helper offers every version

It lists every Minecraft build Google Play still serves for your architecture,
scrollable and searchable, each row saying what it is: Bedrock or Pocket
Edition, which named update, and whether it uses RenderDragon — those stutter
badly on handhelds and are marked. 1.16.221.01 is still the one to pick.

Setup there is one button now, and signing in no longer asks for your email
twice.

Fixed

• mcbedrock-get --list | head ended in a BrokenPipeError traceback. It exits
  quietly now, and Ctrl-C does too. This affected Windows as well, since rc.3.

Status

Testing channel. Final R36S and revised RGDS physical acceptance checks remain
pending, and nothing here is promoted to stable or newly labelled Validated.

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt. Neither helper is code-signed, so
SmartScreen and antivirus heuristics may complain about the Windows one. The
Linux sign-in window has not yet been exercised on a real desktop; if it
misbehaves, please open an issue at
mcbedrock-get.

NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG
OR MICROSOFT.