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Run weechat + Glowing Bear on your Android without any third party service.
1. Download Termux
2. Open Termux
3. In Termux, type: pkg update
4. In Termux, type: pkg upgrade
5. In Termux, type: pkg install tmux weechat
6. Optionally, type: weechat-dev weechat-lua-plugin weechat-perl-plugin weechat-python-plugin weechat-ruby-plugin
7. Optionally, type: wget https://rasengan.publichtml.site/tmux.conf && mv tmux.conf .tmux.conf
8. Type: tmux
9. Type: weechat
10. In weechat, type: /relay add weechat 9001
11. In weechat, type: /set relay.network.password MAKE_SOMETHING_UP
12. Go to Google Play
13. Download Glowing Bear
14. Connect to localhost port 9001 and enter the password from #11
15. Connect to IRC as you normally would with weechat.
16. Go to Android Settings
17. Go to Battery Stetings
18. Uncheck Termux and Glowing Bear so they are not shutdown.
Hope this helps and enjoy!
P.S.: If you have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 or S8+, you can use Samsung DeX and turn on experimental mode as well to just run weechat directly. Weechat has mouse support, drag and drop support, etc.
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weechat dev build on android play store works even better has notifications etc

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