Due to the lack of good open source drawing apps to port to the NST, I wrote myself a simple one specifically for the NST, taking advantage of the fast refresh mode (A2).
The app is quite simple: it is multi-page, can export and import pages from PNG files, and the usual basic stuff you'd expect from a (basic) drawing app. See some screenshots below.
Actually, you can import any PNG images folder by long pressing the folder at the import screen. However, for now you can't erase pixels from imported pages. This is because the drawer is curve based (you create and delete curves), not pixel based.
In addition to the icons at the bottom of the screen, the left side keys perform undo/redo and the right side switch pages.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, also if some is willing to help me port this to the PRS-T1, let me know.
Source code is available at: https://github.com/marspeople/E-Paper
Changelog:
1.1: Background of exported images is now white instead of transparent.
I would like to ask, are there any text mode, allowing users to type in some text?
Support your great app!
Nice work. Just tried it out. Pushing the limits of what an e-paper device can do (actually, it's a bit beyond...) but still pretty rad that you were able to make it! Thanks!
pretty great app. really liked the simplicity and such.
but i would want to have some options on saving images, by default on png images, drawing is black and background is transparent, so previewing on a different app makes my images weird. it could has some options, like background and text colors, image size and jpg/png output etc. And also it would be cool to add some texts to my drawings as wheilitjohnny said.
cheers
Marspeople, I think this app is great. I've looked for apps which my kids can use for drawing and this answers the need.
drmxmyt said:
pretty great app. really liked the simplicity and such.
but i would want to have some options on saving images, by default on png images, drawing is black and background is transparent, so previewing on a different app makes my images weird. it could has some options, like background and text colors, image size and jpg/png output etc. And also it would be cool to add some texts to my drawings as wheilitjohnny said.
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You're right, I forgot about fixing the transparent background. Fixed now.
Regarding your other requests, I think they defeat the simplicity purposes of the app. However, adding typed text may be interesting, I will consider that.
E-Paper app
Great little app! Would be great if you could add a button to refresh the page once in a while. After many deletes the shadows can be overwhelming and distracting. I am currently deciding which one I like better: E-Paper or FreeNote (more features but also more complicated). I think in the end simplicity trumps flexibility.
Here is a small tip: you can draw straight line segments by touching the screen with two fingers (one after another) and releasing them at reverse order.
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Great little app! Would be great if you could add a button to refresh the page once in a while. After many deletes the shadows can be overwhelming and distracting. I am currently deciding which one I like better: E-Paper or FreeNote (more features but also more complicated). I think in the end simplicity trumps flexibility.
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Well, you can simply press the n button twice (don't press too fast or it will create ghost at the bottom).
=>> App for making lecture notes
Hi!
I would like to suggest some simple upgrade to your app, which equivallent I failed to find on Market.
Since E-Ink Multi Touch screen of NST seems to be great also for making lecture notes, but for what I have failed to find any suitable app, althought only simple thing would make your app to be great for this purpouse. You could then even start of selling it.
Here is the simple idea:
Screen divided into 3 frames:
1.) Overlook-frame of printable-part of A4/A5 -- used for scroolling/scalling of the Zoomed-frame around paper - which should look like small box on large A4,
2.) Zoomed-frame -- used for handwritting text, drawing pictures, writting formulas into the small box on Overlook Frame
3.) Toolbar-frame -- same as yours only with zoom +- buttons. also scalling of Zoomed-frame box on Overlook-frame could be done by multitouch.
Would be great hack for students of Natural arts - could provide ability to write mathematical formulas and schemes and so on, not loosing possibililty of hand writting.
What do you think?
That looks like a really nice, polished app.
I was just wondering if anybody uses the capabilities of ezPDF Reader to do similar things.
ezpdf
Renate NST said:
That looks like a really nice, polished app.
I was just wondering if anybody uses the capabilities of ezPDF Reader to do similar things.
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yes i use comments for correcting LATEX generated i write pdfs or for commenting some books for studying. However i think that ezPDF is mainly for reading pdf and is not suitable for making lecture notes.
Very nice and simple app...thanks
Is there any way to exit this app? (I mean alternative to terminating a process)
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Is there any way to exit this app? (I mean alternative to terminating a process)
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You normally don't exit android apps, the system will terminate it if needed. This app will be totally idle when it isn't at foreground.
I tried using your app on my prs-t1. It works and runs but there's a lag when drawing. For example if you draw a line, it takes about half a second or so to show up on the screen.
I wish I could help you port it and optimize but I have no clue how to Lol > < I really wish it were possible because the native drawing app on the prs-t1 saves in some weird format.
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i had probably found a bug.
scenario:
1. made note
2. saved it
3. load it
4. cannot delete erase what was written there
i had earned some developement skills for android. So i may probably do enhancements to the app I had proposed here earlier.
the simple answer to that is this app save it as png, not svg or another vector method. so you cant edit it, it just an image file. its not a bug.
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the simple answer to that is this app save it as png, not svg or another vector method. so you cant edit it, it just an image file. its not a bug.
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That's correct. The reason for this is being easier to handle a png file than a curve-based specific file format.
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i had earned some developement skills for android. So i may probably do enhancements to the app I had proposed here earlier.
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This app has large room for improvements. If anyone want to contribute, just send me a patch.
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Hey everyone,
After wrestling with the HTC Album for a while, I've got tired of it not doing what I want it to do and have therefore started developing my own. I'm still in the algorithm writing stage but it's coming along very nicely as yet.
Here's some of the features that I'm planning:
Database Backend - This will be extensible through the use of 'tagging'. You will be able to add an 'infinite' number of tags to each photo.
UI - Will allow swiping through pictures and other enhancements over the standard app.
Different Browsing Views - Can browse via the database (and tags) or the normal file based directory views.
EXIF tags - Ability to read them. Not sure on where I'm going with this feature yet.
There's no time frame when this will be first released, but it will be out when I have it in a nice stable state, and feature-wise, similar to the HTC Album. Further features will then be added in further (quick) releases. I have a name of the application in mind but I don't want to announce it yet as this application is very much in progress. I also don't want someone to steal the name.
So why have I posted this? Well I know the good people of XDA are full of good ideas so I'm asking you this: what would you want from this new Gallery app?
Reserved for future use.
will you try to add in multi touch like the demo photo app of long ago that was never refined? i cant wait for you to finish, the htc album gets on my nerves too. it always reorders the pictures as it pleases even though i have "sort by date" selected after a wipe.
yea, add multitouch
As long as there are more sorting options ill be eternally grateful
Not sure on multitouch as I don't really see a need for it (plus can't be bothered with the potential Patent infringement stuff). I will include a nicer way of zooming in and out than the simple buttons though, and I think it's more elegant than multitouch.
Regarding sorting, there will definetly be better sorting options. And i'll make sure they actually work too. This is probably the number one thing that annoys the hell out of me with the HTC Album.
Have the ability to pick a folder of images or folders.
I hate using gallery on my phone and it picks every picture on my SD card. Kinda annoying honestly, but hey it is what it is.
Also implement features such as double tap to zoom...hate using the zoom toolbar
And auto rotate with animation
Refer to app called "Picture Viewer" to understand wht i am talkin about...its a nice app just lackin features...
http://www.cyrket.com/package/rip.android.GlImageView
an idea for zooming: clockwise to zoom in and counter-clockwise to zoom out ... i dont remember where ive seen that before but just seems like a cool idea if able to be implemented
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an idea for zooming: clockwise to zoom in and counter-clockwise to zoom out ... i dont remember where ive seen that before but just seems like a cool idea if able to be implemented
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Hmm the app i refered to in the above post has zoom in / zoom out by moving ur finger up or down
Different implementation possibilities lol
Check out the Albums program from Hero. It has some nice features: pinch zoom in/out, sd card/facebook/flicker albums, swipe to navigate, slideshow animations, autorotate animation, grid or directory view, etc.
The tags feature you are adding would be great since I have them in directories for now (basically 1 tag only).
The ability to add pictures from a remote "gallery" server (or similar remote server you can run at home) would be great since I don't put all my pictures on facebook/flicker (nor do I want to).
http://gallery.sourceforge.net/
I think a zoom feature like this would be nice if you think that you could do it. You can watch it in action if you watch the video. It two minutes and six seconds in.
http://phandroid.com/2009/03/18/androids-circular-zoom-on-the-htc-magic/
What annoys me the most is the phone generating thumbnails for all 1600 of my pictures, I have to leave it there for 10 minutes or so to let it do that. My old phone, which a dumb phone never had to do that when browsing all the pictures and was way faster.
I second SolemnWishing's request. I would like to see the thumbnail part in the default gallery done away with in the app. Are you going for a complete default gallery replacement app or will this piggyback in anyway off the default one? I would like to be able to replace it completely just like the launcher.apk and the mms.apk.
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What annoys me the most is the phone generating thumbnails for all 1600 of my pictures, I have to leave it there for 10 minutes or so to let it do that. My old phone, which a dumb phone never had to do that when browsing all the pictures and was way faster.
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Hmm yea tht is frustrating, i hope the OP finds a way around it..perhaps read the images n instead of creating smaller ones it shud just resize the images n display them or somethin....
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will you try to add in multi touch like the demo photo app of long ago that was never refined? i cant wait for you to finish, the htc album gets on my nerves too. it always reorders the pictures as it pleases even though i have "sort by date" selected after a wipe.
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There are a few great features in the demo app. If you could get a hold of the source ... WOW ... it could save you a lot of time and give you a great start on creating a kick ass gallery app. Good Luck!!
I don't agree with the request to eliminate the thumbnailing. Thumbnailing is a great feature and only happens the first time you open a particular image set - it is then databased so the thumbnails load instantly later. A more customizable approach would be a better idea, like the option to disable thumbnailing selectively.
It would be nice to have the option of EXCLUDING and/or HIDING certain paths, for example, some programs add in their own images that you most likely don't want visible in the gallery. I don't like those image hiding programs that screw with the file extensions, and suggest that password protection and obfuscation isn't necessary -- just the ability to keep the crap out.
I have the sprint vogue that I ran Android 1.5 from my sd card with sprint network. I updated to eclair on the sd card but find my phone says T-Mobile, don't think its a big deal.When I was running 1.5 I was able to find apps like pandora to down load, know on t-mobile network and eclair a lot of apps are missing? Is their a way to unlock the market.
You need market enabler.
http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
Edit: This pretty much just adds paid apps.
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You need market enabler.
http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
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I don't know if that will work cause he was able to download Pandora before and that's a free app, market enabler just to gives you paid apps
My bad. I misunderstood.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628353
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It's a problem with the Android SDK.
Starting with 1.6, Google introduced screen sizes: Small, Medium, and Large. Our devices have Small Screens (along with the HTC Tattoo). The G1/Dream has a Medium screen, and the Droid/Nexus a Large screen.
The problem is the SDK defaults to Medium and Large screens. It's up to the application developer to test the application for Small screens and proactively add the indicator for Small screen support.
Most developers never bother to indicate the app can run on Small screens, so it gets excluded from your view.
I'm not sure if the small screen thing is linked to the /data or your Google user account. If I knew which, I'd figure out some way to spoof it, so we can get the full market on small screens. If it's on the /data somewhere, then that's a much easier fix.
The fact that clearing your /data and booting up a 480x320 fixes it, seems to indicate it's a value in the /data. It'd be interesting to do a dump of two /data directories with only the market resolution changed and see how they differ on a binary level. Then perhaps we can add a patch to the menu of NoMoRootfs (or a patch that's applied every bootup... or lock down the file that's modified).
If it's on the account, then either you'd have to intercept the Market App's data packet that indicates screen size and modify it proactively, or you'd have to change parts of the SDK to report the screen size as larger than it really is (this would be hard to do because apps use that interface too... you'd have to be able to detect if the request is coming from the Market App).
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It's a problem with the Android SDK.
Starting with 1.6, Google introduced screen sizes: Small, Medium, and Large. Our devices have Small Screens (along with the HTC Tattoo). The G1/Dream has a Medium screen, and the Droid/Nexus a Large screen.
The problem is the SDK defaults to Medium and Large screens. It's up to the application developer to test the application for Small screens and proactively add the indicator for Small screen support.
Most developers never bother to indicate the app can run on Small screens, so it gets excluded from your view.
I'm not sure if the small screen thing is linked to the /data or your Google user account. If I knew which, I'd figure out some way to spoof it, so we can get the full market on small screens. If it's on the /data somewhere, then that's a much easier fix.
The fact that clearing your /data and booting up a 480x320 fixes it, seems to indicate it's a value in the /data. It'd be interesting to do a dump of two /data directories with only the market resolution changed and see how they differ on a binary level. Then perhaps we can add a patch to the menu of NoMoRootfs (or a patch that's applied every bootup... or lock down the file that's modified).
If it's on the account, then either you'd have to intercept the Market App's data packet that indicates screen size and modify it proactively, or you'd have to change parts of the SDK to report the screen size as larger than it really is (this would be hard to do because apps use that interface too... you'd have to be able to detect if the request is coming from the Market App).
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That is a great idea.
Do you have the capacity to perform the differential on the two directories?
I have deodexed the 1.6 Vending.apk and can post the source for everyone to review. I think the more eyes on this the better.
The only reason I run 320x480 is because I want a full market 100% of the time.
All is working, I used the link that PacyWhitter gave, followed Tatnai directions and know have full market!!!
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That is a great idea.
Do you have the capacity to perform the differential on the two directories?
I have deodexed the 1.6 Vending.apk and can post the source for everyone to review. I think the more eyes on this the better.
The only reason I run 320x480 is because I want a full market 100% of the time.
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Yeah, I can do it, though it'd be easier to do it on two data.img files (might have to go back to WinMobile for that). Or I guess I could flash the kernel and wipe my data and export the result each time to a binary file. I'd still be interested in seeing the Vending.apk.
I already know where the Market apk is getting its info from. In android.utils there's a class called DisplayMetrics. The Market apk is likely getting its info from there. It'd be possible to spoof it by recompiling the source with a hardcoded value, but that'd affect applications as well. It'd be much harder to do it for only the Market/Vending apk.
The thing I'm interested in, is that obviously if the "boot up at one resolution, switch back" trick works, then it's not sending the resolution to the server every time. This means it has to be storing the data, or a hash of the data, somewhere.
This guy has a fascinating website on similar subjects:
http://strazzere.com/blog/
There's also a way to use the Market from the emulator:
http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=28991
Perhaps I can start there and see if I can reproduce the problem, then produce the solution in a controlled environment.
graphic914 said:
All is working, I used the link that PacyWhitter gave, followed Tatnai directions and know have full market!!!
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People seem to indicate it resets after a few days, so you will have to redo it until I have time to see if I can fix it.
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This guy has a fascinating website on similar subjects:
http://strazzere.com/blog/
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That is one of my fav sites for Android dev. Great site .
Started Community Market Project here
has anyone figured out how to open ebooks in it?
You need your ebooks (pdf) to be on your SD card I believe on the top level directory. I usually just find mine in Astro and it'll ask if you want to use Adobe to open them then it'll save them as documents you've opened.
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You need your ebooks (pdf) to be on your SD card I believe on the top level directory. I usually just find mine in Astro and it'll ask if you want to use Adobe to open them then it'll save them as documents you've opened.
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Thanks, I just need to find a current version of ASTRO.
Aight, i have adobe reader 10. it does everything i need but can't find the reflow option (make fonts bigger). I dont want to have to downgrade to 9. too slow and choppy. Any help?
So far, the best pdf reader I have found is ezPDF. I use it on my Archos tablet. Has anyone tried this on the NC?.
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So far, the best pdf reader I have found is ezPDF. I use it on my Archos tablet. Has anyone tried this on the NC?.
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Works w/ bugs. Getting Special Characters on screen, making the book un readable at times.
ezPDF, Adobe, RepliGo.
Since I bought it as a reader, first thing I did was check a bunch of pdf reading apps. From experience RepliGo works, Adobe works, and ezPDF works. The best of the three is ezPDF, but you need an SD card for the cache. The next best is Adobe.
I don't think any of them have an open feature that allows you to browse for the file you want to open, so they all require a file manager. Adobe and ezPDF both have a recent feature that remembers what pdfs you have opened recently, so that kinda helps.
Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!
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Since I bought it as a reader, first thing I did was check a bunch of pdf reading apps. From experience RepliGo works, Adobe works, and ezPDF works. The best of the three is ezPDF, but you need an SD card for the cache. The next best is Adobe.
I don't think any of them have an open feature that allows you to browse for the file you want to open, so they all require a file manager. Adobe and ezPDF both have a recent feature that remembers what pdfs you have opened recently, so that kinda helps.
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What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?
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What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?
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Perhaps, I am wrong, but I could not get ezPDF to work without an SD card. ezPDF creates a folder on the SD card where it keeps information on the opened pdfs, configurations and settings. It also has a temp folder which I just assumed to be for memory purposes.
I have tried many pdfs and they look no different than on a computer, save for the occasional LN, which stands for a link. Those special characters don't really interfere with anything since they reside at the bottom.
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Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!
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The native PDF is QuickOffice. There a few things that bother me about it. One, there are certain formats that it does not like for pdfs and will just display a giant x. Two, it does not save the page where you left off. Three, to switch the page, you must swipe down to up as opposed to right to left or tapping the right side. Four, it does not have an indicator to display whether the page is loading or completely loaded. I sometimes find myself waiting on blank pages to do something. Or used to, since I use ezPDF which has an indicator and fixes all the mentioned problems.
To answer your questions about the native app: It works in landscape. You can fit the pdf to width or zoom in and out by using the pinch gesture or tapping the (- +) that shows up on screen. The pdf handling is much much better. The native app does not give you many options, so text reflow is out of the question, which I presume is not a bad thing in your case.
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What do you mean i need an sd card for cache? Will that fix the problems with the special characters? if so, can i just sotore the pdf on the card and u can view it normally, without those secial characters coming up?
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Perhaps, I am wrong, but I could not get ezPDF to work without an SD card.
I have tried many pdfs and they look no different than on a computer, save for the occasional LN, which stands for a link. Those special characters don't really interfere with anything since they reside at the bottom.
peiziyu said:
Could anyone comment on the native PDF app? Does it work in landscape mode? And how well do panning and zooming work? I know in the original nook that zooming didn't really work, but it looks like reviews of the NC say that PDF handling is much better.
I've got a whole of math class notes as PDFs, and trying to reflow on those would be a pretty epic failure.
Thanks in advance!
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The native PDF is QuickOffice. There a few things that bother me about it. One, there are certain formats that it does not like for pdfs and will just display a giant x. Two, it does not save the page where you left off. Three, to switch the page, you must swipe down to up as opposed to right to left or tapping the right side. Four, it does not have an indicator to display whether the page is loading or completely loaded. I sometimes find myself waiting on blank pages to do something. Or used to, since I use ezPDF which has an indicator and fixes all the mentioned problems.
To answer your questions about the native app: It works in landscape. You can fit the pdf to width or zoom in and out by using the pinch gesture or tapping the (- +) that shows up on screen. The pdf handling is much much better. The native app does not give you many options, so text reflow is out of the question, which I presume is not a bad thing in your case.
+1 for ezPDF with an SDcard.
Night mode with reflow is great, but I have problems tapping the bookmark button successfully.
Maybe my version of ezPDF is different than yours. I am running it on an Archos 101, not an NC. I am here because I am looking for a smaller tablet and deciding between the Archos 70 and the NC.
My ezPDF has a tab across the top that allows me to select either "recently viewed PDFs" or "all PDFs". The "all PDFs" tab lists directories and can expand the directories individually to select PDF files.
In my experience, ezPDF is way better than Adobe's reader for Android. Adobe's works pretty well, but is pretty basic. There are many, many features in ezPDF that are not in Adobe's.
OTOH, from what I have read in this and the B&N forums, the built-in QuickOffice PDF reader is less than basic. It has no reflow, for example, which I think is required for this type of device. It also seems to not support some common image types or compressions, or at-least folks are reporting pages with red x's across them. The feature set has been reduced from what QuickOffice offers in the actual product.
I find ezpdf to be too slow when it comes to going to the next page.
The stock reader works in landscape but I can not get it to remember where I left off.
I'm still looking for one I like. I wish there was an Android version of Annotate. That's my favorite on the Ipad.
I agree it is slow, but I can't read that fast. For me, the page scroll at the bottom more than compensates for that. The 101 is a bit faster than the NC (1GHz vs 800MHz), but I consider ezPDF so superior that I won't look back.
I assume you mean iAnnotate, and yes, I agree.
sin7, thanks for answering my questions about QuickOffice. That actually sounds like it should work for my needs pretty conveniently, since I'm using it for math references which don't necessarily need to stay on the same page.
I've seen a few people in other threads mention that vudroid works nicely for PDFs on NC once you've installed the softkeys app. Mine is still in the mail, so no personal experience, but that might help some of you still looking for the best app?
Could somebody stick up Adobe Reader 10 apk somewhere? I'm having the devil of a time tracking it down, and I cant seem to find the damned APK file on my phone to pull it off...
Thanks.
- Will.
You can search for the Adobe Reader on freewarelovers.com.
For some reason 10.0 is listed as an old version apk, but you can still download it.
Looking for a very simple photo sorting app, to help me sort large volumes of photos into neat categories. Basically, it would feature a normal image browser that lets me slide left and right to change pictures (one photo at a time, full screen display), but it would also have a simple overlay on the bottom or side with 4-6 user created categories and a delete button. Touching the category would move that photo to the folder associated with the category simply with no confirmation, and automatically move to the next image. If delete is pressed, the file is deleted (Or moved to a temporary "trash can" type folder that is emptied upon user request or at the end of the sorting session) and the next picture is displayed. The idea here is to use very quick, single touch commands with no extra confirmation steps. To accommodate a larger amount of sort categories, they could be tree based. IE, a Sports category button could open 4 or 5 Specific sports related categories.
Also, if a photo is moved to a category folder with a duplicate name, both images should be displayed side by side with very basic file information (perhaps simply the image resolution), for simple verification of duplicates, an option of which file to keep and which to delete if they are duplicates (the resolution information helps you select the best quality one to keep), and the option to append a few random characters to the filename if they are not duplicates, and continue with the file move operation.
All of this needs to be simple and fast - other apps exist for this type of categorization, but it involves far too much slow navigation through menus and unnecessary confirmation steps. What I desire is for 95% of this process to be simply tapping the category, next image comes up, tap category, next image, don't like this one - tap delete, next image comes up.. etc. etc. The only time I get a popup is when a duplicate filename is found. I don't know how fast the files can actually be moved to the category folders, and hopefully that would be handled in the background without slowing down the sorting process. If it would significantly impact performance, perhaps instead of actually moving the files - it just makes a log of what needs to be moved, then every 500 or 1000 pictures you could press the "make it so" button, and it processes the log of needed file moves.
If anyone if familiar with the PC image sorting app called Sortpics - I'm basically looking for something similar, though with a touch interface and for an android tablet so that I can load up my tablet with a bunch of unorganized photos, and organize them while I'm lazing in the recliner or on the go.
Posting this in the Xoom forum because I have a xoom, and I know there are a lot of very talented app developers here who have already come up with some fantastic apps for my xoom!
It doesn't work for reading pdf's, but Perfect Viewer is perfect for reading zip or rar files filled with jpgs (or cbz/cbx files, of course). All the better if these are black and white, like manga! Turn on landscape mode for the best experience, and I recommend setting up the touch spaces like in the attached image.
Thing is, setting up the touch spaces is no easy feat, as the dialogue to select a different function is white text on a white background. I attached a backup of my settings file to get my screen setup (1-04-16.xml). Place this on your sd card /PerfectViewer/Preferences, then in the app go to Preferences management and load up the file.
I'm not sure if the attached version of the apk is the latest one to still work with the NST's Android version, but this one works fine. Be sure to turn on "Auto detect page border" for optimal use of the NST's screen real estate.
STEELBAS said:
I'm not sure if the attached version of the apk is the latest one to still work with the NST's Android version, but this one works fine. Be sure to turn on "Auto detect page border" for optimal use of the NST's screen real estate.
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Yep, that's the last version that works on the NST. Back in the day I used it for comics as well and found it the best for my purposes. And as you say, the PDF plugin for that version crashes.
The menu issue is a common one with many apps not designed for e-ink screens. Colors that developers have used are mostly defaulted to either black or white (sometimes you get lucky with a grey of some kind). Someone on one of the Russian forums where the NST is popular developed an alternate set of background images for the framework-res.apk. When these are substituted for the stock images the background of all menus (including B&N menus) are either slightly or more than a little darkened so that even white text will show up against them. At one time I used the slightly darkened images as I seemed to have a lot of apps that I could not read settings for. Over the years and as my use and configuration of my NSTs evolved there seemed to be fewer of these and so finally I just left the default backgrounds when I updated to FW 1.2.2
Of course, you can always install the app that you can't see menus for on another (non-e-ink) device and use that as a guide until you get things set up the way you like.
nmyshkin said:
Of course, you can always install the app that you can't see menus for on another (non-e-ink) device and use that as a guide until you get things set up the way you like.
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Right! I think that's how I went about it with these settings, too. I don't remember, it's been four years [emoji28]
I recently got into manga a little, again, so I dusted off this app and decided to share it here.
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