How to play Baldurs Gate on your Android phone or Tablet

Baldur's Gate running on my Android Galaxy Note.

 This is a tutorial to install Baldur's Gate on your Android smartphone or tablet.

Step 1 - Install Baldur's Gate on your PC

Install Baldur's Gate from your CD's on your PC. Install your expansion packs & all the latest patches as if you are playing it from your PC. Installing a "No-CD" patch isn't required. 

Install GemRB from the Google Play store on your Android phone. You will need a good Android file explorer. I have found the ES File Explorer to be the best.  Run GemRB. GemRB will create a default /app-data/net.sourceforge.gemrb/ folder on your sdcard and copy some files to it. After copying files GemRB will close.

GemRB - Data Installation options

You can accept the default folder structure (as above) or if you have a phone whose external SD card is at /sdcard/external_sd/ (like the Galaxy Note), then set up the folder structure by selecting "Specify directory". If is preferable to set up your directory on your phone before you select the "Specify directory" option through GemRB.