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What is it ?

It's an opensource android app for playing the game of go on the turn-based DGS server. It is based on the eidogo library to edit the goban. The objective is to minimize the data bandwidth: no ad, most editing is local, only when pressing the "send" or "get games" buttons there is a small amount of data exchanged with the DGS server.

Misc features

## Bandwidth

DragonGoApp minimizes access to servers; so the only time when the app connects to the server is when you press the "get games" or "send" button (or when loading the ladders or forums on request). So once you have downloaded a game, you can safely play locally as many variations as you want, ypu can be sure that nothing is sent to the server. When you press "Send", the last move that appears on the screen is shown to you, so that you can check this is indeed the move you want to play, and if you confirm, this move is sent to the server.

## Comments

Optionally, before sending a move, you can go the the more buttons option, which proposes you to attach a comment to a move. There are 2 default comments that you can in one click: to welcome your opponent on start of a game, and to thank your opponent at the end. The third option offers you the possibility to edit the comment you want.

## Ladders

You can view the 19x19 and 9x9 ladders, view your rank as well as all other players above your rank that you can challenge. To preserve bandwidth, the ladder is stored locally and it's only downloaded when you explicitely request it.

## Messages

By default, the app does not warn you when you have new private messages, in order to save bandwidth. But you can request with the "Msg" button to check for your new/unread messages, and reply to them, or invite, or write a new message.

## Forums

When you click on the forums menu, the app will check for the new/unread forum posts. If there are any, it will show you them. You can also switch between viewing all forum posts, or only the unread ones.

## IGS games reviews

The app is shipped with a pack of commented top-players IGS games that you can review. When you quit a review, the current state is saved so that the next time you open the review menu, it will directly shows you the next moves.

## Variations

Thanks to the Eidogo open-source javascript library, the app offers you a full-featured SGF editor, with all classical features including variations and comments. As a useful trick, you can go back to the first move in a game with the leftmost "backward" goban button, where you can find all the information about the game and the players in the comment box.