Minesweeper

This Minesweeper is the independent Android implementation published by john-athan. It is built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3 rather than copying the code or assets of Microsoft’s version. On Android 12 and later, Material You can adapt the board and controls to the colours from your wallpaper; on older systems it uses its own palette.

Four ways to play

• Easy is a 9×9 classic board. The opening is generated with a safe first click.
• Medium expands to 12×12, adds a five-minute countdown and guarantees only the tapped starting cell, not the ring around it.
• Hard is 14×14 with three minutes, no chord reveal and the six-second fog-of-war rule. You have to remember the numbers after their cells fade.
• Custom ranges from 5×5 to 20×20. Mine count, fog and safe start are separate choices; there is no timer, and tapping a revealed number can chord-open its neighbours.

The grid scales to the screen instead of asking you to zoom. Normal input uses tap to reveal and long-press to flag. A flag-mode switch reverses those gestures, which is useful when most of the remaining moves are flags. The game shows a seven-segment timer and mine counter, plays flood-fill animations, and uses screen shake when a mine ends the round.

Best time and wins are recorded separately for Easy, Medium and Hard. They are local statistics, not a leaderboard. Version 1.8 introduced the flag-mode switch and those records, and also made Hard’s first tap safe. The current 1.9 tag is a release/build update; the project does not attribute a new gameplay feature specifically to 1.9.

Privacy and provenance

There are no network calls, ads, accounts or telemetry. The project’s own code is GPL-3.0-or-later. The bundled AndroidX, Compose, Material 3 and Kotlin libraries are Apache-2.0, and their notices are included behind the Licences button. The project states that its icons and screenshots were made for this app and that it did not copy code, artwork or text from another Minesweeper implementation.

Those are source findings, not a claim that every randomly generated board was tested here. Unlike Antimine, this project does not advertise a solver-backed “no guessing” generator; a safe first cell prevents an immediate loss but does not promise that every later move is logically forced.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of version 1.9, compiled from source and signed with F-Droid’s key.
• The 1.0 MB APK runs on Android 5.0 or later and includes native libraries for 64-bit ARM, 32-bit ARM, x86 and x86_64.
• The only declared permission is the app-specific internal receiver permission explained above. Our scan found no tracker SDKs.
• The screenshots come from the project’s F-Droid metadata and were added for version 1.0. They show Medium, Hard fog-of-war and a finished game, but not later additions such as the Custom tab or flag-mode switch.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

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