Maxima on Android
Maxima on Android is a port of Maxima on the Android operating system. Thanks to Sylvain Ageneau' effort on porting Embeddable Common Lisp to the Android OS, the latest Maxima code runs nicely on ECL on Android with very small changes to the source code.
Maxima on Android is a combination of many open source software: ECL on Android, MathJax, and Maxima itself. I wrote roughly a thousand lines of Java code and a hundred lines of HTML including Javascript code.
The installation of the software requires total of 90MB on the storage. 30MB needs to be installed on the internal storage. The rest of 60MB can be installed either on the external or the internal storage. The first run of the apk will ask you where you want the 60MB to be installed.
Then you can enjoy Maxima / Macsyma on your mobile phone or tablet based on Android OS.
Category : Education
Reviews (29)
An absolutely fantastic piece of kit. Thanks for making this available on Android However: any chance of adding a setting to optionally not stay awake by default? This is draining the battery during long sessions when I forget to turn off the screen manually. Thanks.
A serviceable CAS app. There are a few issues as far as getting plots to work, and the documentation is a little confusing at times, but overall a very good application.
Most useful app for maths students those who can't afford system version. The mobile version is almost same as system version. Highly recommended to download for maths students... Best app of the year for me! Thank you so much creators.
Maxima is a full-blown CAS whose long and active history has accrued it lots of features. Maxima is not the easiest CAS to use, and the learning curve can be steep if you want to use loops, etc. But I hope Maxima's capabilities make that worthwhile.
Great app! Love to do math on go! Btw, it seems there's a bug in command radcan: substituted numerical value gives different value when done after expand command versus radcan command. Results should be obviously same. EDIT: Found the reason. My expression contains product arguments of square root. radcan function distributes all these products to products of square roots, and square root isn't distributive over complex numbers. Declaring complex variable didn't solve the issue.
The plot function doesnot show any plots in my phone. It is blank. However, it takes some computing time when the plot function is complex, but still doesnot display anything at all. Device: Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (mido) OS: Havoc OS 2.9
This is an awesome idea to port this project to android. I have successfully tried a few things of it but unfortunately I encountered a problem with the fft package which I couldn't load. I hope you guys will fix this soon.
It's the best offline CAS for Android, no doubt. But relative to Wolfram alpha (which too is free) it's not good at all. But it can do many things nicely and that's good.
Maxima works very well, but the syntax is not phone keyboard friendly, so handheld calculators are quite a bit faster.
This app is great! The only problem that I face is way it takes input. I hope in future it can take MathJax as an input. Cheers!
App got crashed while trying to solve 2nd step equation , also app stoped respondimg .. need urgent solution for study purpose Do solve this issue imidiately . Please reply please
won't calculate a simple sine.. only good for basic stuff. for that the Android default calculator is better and even does sine, Cosine, etc calculations.
This App needs better UI. If possible add a good GUI like wx maxima. Also there so much you can improve in this app .
I am very happy to use it, it works smooth perfectly, I wish i could have a new stylish icon pls pls and a blank opening
Plotting works. A paid version with updates would be good.
The graph is not shown in this app. Didn't like this app. Horrible
Not compatible with latest Android. Kept freezing on startup.
It is very bad I set my programme but it shows error gaphs are not appear and it stops many many times
Great plotting. To use as a numeric calculator, type 'numer:true;' command.
Full fledged CAS on Android, unbelievable. That's the true power of open source
Older plot() function shows output. The draw() function can't display.
It's fine but Wolfram alpha is better at problem solving.l recommend to improve this ACS so as to solve most of the problems
How to use for loop every time it is is taking semicolon in the end for ex:for i: 1 thru n-1 do( And then enter it takes semicolon.help please.
Great to have such a powerful symbolic computer algebra system as Maxima on Android as well as my computer! 👍
Awesome idea. A must have for anyone interested in mathematics
Excellent! Requires some preliminary knowledge of the system.
Nice app which runs without laptop thanks for presenting in Android
Very good port of Maxima, thank you!
Missing all labels for output and intermediate expressions. Reformatting to fit the display width is slow and often unhelpful (see behavior of "disolate"). Too few choices of text size; numeric input would be better. Autocompletion suggestions cause the input bar to lose focus. For complicated inputs, multiple lines are needed. Saving a backup session after each output would protect against lost work when Maxima misbehaves.