{"id":4652,"date":"2012-10-19T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2012-10-19T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T08:53:25","slug":"matlab-mobile-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Mobile for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.co.uk\/mobile\/\">MATLAB Mobile<\/a> has been around for Apple devices for a while now but Android users have had to make do with third party alternatives such as <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=it.leonardocervelli\">MATLAB Commander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.chschmid.mlconnect\">MLConnect<\/a>.\u00a0 All that has now changed with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.mathworks.matlabmobile\">MATLAB Mobile for Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATLAB Mobile is NOT MATLAB running on your phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While MATLAB Mobile is a very nice and interesting product, there is one thing you should get clear in your mind&#8211; this is not a full version of MATLAB on your phone or Tablet.\u00a0 MATLAB Mobile is essentially a thin client that connects to an instance of MATLAB running on your desktop or The Mathworks Cloud.\u00a0 In other words, it doesn&#8217;t work at all if you don&#8217;t have a network connection or a licensed copy of MATLAB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What if you do want to run MATLAB code directly on your phone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it is unlikely that we&#8217;ll see a full version of MATLAB compiled for Android devices any time soon, Android toting MATLABers have a couple of other options available to them in addition to MATLAB Mobile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.octave\">Octave for Android<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/\">Octave<\/a> is a free, open source alternative to MATLAB that can run many .m file scripts and functions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/developer?id=Corbin+Champion&amp;hl=en_GB\">Corbin Champion<\/a> has ported it to Android and although it is still a work in progress, it works very well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=gcmath.ui\">Mathmatiz<\/a> &#8211; Small and light, this free app understands a subset of the MATLAB language and can do basic plotting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.addi\">Addi<\/a> &#8211; Much smaller and less capable than Octave for Android, this is Corbin Champion&#8217;s earlier attempt at bringing a free MATLAB clone to Android.\u00a0 It is based on the Java library, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmathlib.de\/\">JMathLib<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATLAB Mobile has been around for Apple devices for a while now but Android users have had to make do with third party alternatives such as MATLAB Commander and MLConnect.\u00a0 All that has now changed with the release of MATLAB Mobile for Android. 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