Minecraft Bedrock handheld port v2.0.0-rc.9

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.

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.

What changed

You can now install the versions the browser offers you

rc.8 let you browse all 969 builds Google Play still serves. It just would not
install about 850 of them.

Picking, say, 1.14.60.5 downloaded 200 MB, unpacked the game code and assets,
hashed the game library — and only then said unsupported: outside the evidence-based 1.16-1.21 range. The check was the last thing the installer did.

Now the range is checked before any work happens, and being outside it is a
question rather than a verdict:

1.14.60.5 is outside the tested 1.16-1.21 range.
It may fail to install, or install and not launch.
                                   [ Install it anyway ]

Two kinds of "no" are now told apart:

• Blocked — the port cannot run it whatever you want. PairIP licensing
  (1.26 and newer) and unparseable version strings. No confirmation unlocks
  these, because there is nothing behind the door.
• Untested — nobody has run it here. That is your risk to take, and the
  version browser exists so you can take it. Untested builds record themselves
  as such in version.json, so a later bug report can say what it was.

Downloads are not asked twice: the download screen already carries the warning
and confirms there.

Reinstalling something you already have is not an error

Choosing a version that is already installed reported APK setup failed: version already installed. It now says so plainly and leaves the existing copy
alone.

Status

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

Untested builds are untested. Outside 1.16–1.21 there is no evidence either
way, and 1.16.221.01 remains the build to pick if you want one that works.

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt. Neither helper is code-signed, so
SmartScreen and antivirus heuristics may complain about the Windows one.

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