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Text Fiction is an Interactive Fiction interpreter for Android. Think of Interactive Fictions as stories in which you actively control the actions of the protagonist and as a result influence how the story line unravels.
Text adventure entertainments require no internet connection and only little computing power, allowing your battery to last longer.
Text Fiction takes a modern approach in presenting games on mobile devices. The user interface is modeled after a chat application to make mobile users instantly feel at home.
Build upon the venerable Z-Machine, a vast amount of stories from all genres is available for download and exploration.
Quickstart: http://www.onyxbits.de/content/adding-new-games-library
Out of the box, Text Fiction does not contain any games.
In order to do anything, you first need to import a game (z3, z5, z8 or zblorb format). There are many ways to do this, but the easiest is to select Browse Catalog from the menu. This will open the catalog on this website in a webbrowser. Download any game you like, then simply open your download.
Opening a story file should take you back to Text Fiction which will automatically copy the new game file to your library. Afterwards, the downloaded file is no longer needed and you can safely delete it.
Sometimes the easy method fails or you may want to import a whole bunch of games you had lying around on your computer. In this case, make sure that your games are stored in the Download area of your device and choose Import instead of Browse Catalog from the menu. You will be presented with a list of all story files that reside in the Download folder. Select the ones you like and press the OK button.
Once a game is properly imported, you can simply start it by selecting it from the list in the app.
You can find games to use with this Android App here: http://www.onyxbits.de/textfiction/games Games can be downloaded from their respective pages. For example to play Lost Pig download and open the file found here: http://www.onyxbits.de/content/lost-pig
Game Library: http://www.onyxbits.de/textfiction/games
TextFiction is offered by Onyxbits and Patrick Ahlbrecht: http://www.onyxbits.de/
FAQ: http://www.onyxbits.de/faq-page/19
Handbook: http://www.onyxbits.de/textfiction/handbook
For more information on playing text adventure games see the following: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Starters
Matthew T. Russotto's ZPlet: A Z-Machine for Java: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zplet/
More credits on the README.
Blorb is an "IF resource collection format standard", developed by Andrew Plotkin (Zarf). That is, Blorb specifies a method of associating and bundling multimedia resources such as sound, music, and graphics into a story file. The name comes from one of the Infocom spells.
Blorb was originally designed for Z-machine games, but its specifications have since been extended to handle Glulx games, and possibly other game formats as well. Z-machine blorb files typically end with either the .zblorb or .zlb extension.