I'm using ezPDF Reader at the moment. It is the only PDF reader with plenty of features, including dual page view.
If I set the flipping animation to 3x it looks great.
However zooming is a big problem for me. If I try to zoom in and then pan or zoom out immediately, the app is unresponsive. It won't let you do anything until it has rendered what you have zoomed in to.
I don't know if other readers are the same, but not many other readers have dual-page view and some of them lock the minimum zoom to page width on landscape (I want to see the full page).
My friend's iPad 1 does a much better/smoother job at viewing PDF's than my brand new Nexus 10!
Any suggestions?
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
eRadicant said:
I'm using ezPDF Reader at the moment. It is the only PDF reader with plenty of features, including dual page view.
If I set the flipping animation to 3x it looks great.
However zooming is a big problem for me. If I try to zoom in and then pan or zoom out immediately, the app is unresponsive. It won't let you do anything until it has rendered what you have zoomed in to.
I don't know if other readers are the same, but I'm quite sure no other readers have dual-page view and most of them lock the minimum zoom to page width on landscape (I want to see the full page).
My friend's iPad 1 does a much better/smoother job at viewing PDF's than my brand new Nexus 10!
Any suggestions?
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jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
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Will give it a go and report back, cheers
jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radaee.pdf
But in short, you are right, still there is not a really good PDF reader for Android (Unbelievable).
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Mantano is a brilliant PDF reader... It's really smooth like butter.. Oki maybe not smooth as butter but it's muuuuuch better than the others in terms of smoothness..
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
Repligo.
Well the results are in.
jdolmen said:
Hi, just try radaee PDF reader.
It's not as featured as eZPDF, but it's way faster rendering and zooming pages.
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Above average performance but zooming out ain't pretty.
lutanica said:
Mantano is a brilliant PDF reader... It's really smooth like butter.. Oki maybe not smooth as butter but it's muuuuuch better than the others in terms of smoothness..
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Very smooth, nice UI. I like it but how come I can't view the whole page in landscape mode (zoom out fully)? A pretty basic feature missing, every other reader has at least a setting for it.
rrlu21 said:
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
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Best performance so far at viewing pdf's. Is very sluggish at viewing bookmarks and contents though.
PoisonWolf said:
Repligo.
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Not that great, perhaps slightly better than ezPDF in terms of performance.
^None of these options can pan and zoom at the same time. None of them can do dual page view in landscape mode.
ezPDF by far has the most/best features but its performance needs a lot of work
So it looks like I will be using multiple PDF readers depending on my needs.
But honestly, I would pay good money for a reader with the UI of Mantano, performance of SmartQ, and features of ezPDF.
edit: And when I say performance, I really mean smoothness. All readers were tested on my Nexus 10 running AOKP.
Moon reader can do dual pages in landscape but I haven't done much testing of pdfs with it otherwise.
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I use Repligo and it works great.
What about adobe reader ?
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Moon reader can do dual pages in landscape but I haven't done much testing of pdfs with it otherwise.
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Thanks for informing.
Just tried it, and it's average performance wise. It does feature dual page but not in a virtual book sense. Does a better job at zooming while in dual page view than ezPDF though/
nrage23 said:
I use Repligo and it works great.
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Well all the readers work great, but they don't all perform as well each other.
beeboss said:
What about adobe reader ?
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I don't know why I didn't try this earlier. Adobe Reader is quite good.
Surprisingly, it also features simultaneous pan and zoom.
Flicking between pages is slow though and still nowhere near the speed of SmartQ
Anyway, I recommend everyone try SmartQ Reader. Thanks to rrlu21 for the suggestion. This reader is very close to iOS speed and free!
rrlu21 said:
Please find "SmartQ" in Google Play, it won't let you down.
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smartQ....simple and fastest pdf reader so far. if only the same engine runs in ezpdf.....
Wa|t said:
smartQ....simple and fastest pdf reader so far. if only the same engine runs in ezpdf.....
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Yes, settings for fitting pages in SmartQ is useless
mag13 said:
Yes, settings for fitting pages in SmartQ is useless
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I wouldn't say useless. Would be nice if it had a "fit whole page" option in addition to "fit to height" and "fit to width". Currently, I'm switching between the two manually as I rotate my tablet.
eRadicant said:
I wouldn't say useless. Would be nice if it had a "fit whole page" option in addition to "fit to height" and "fit to width". Currently, I'm switching between the two manually as I rotate my tablet.
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Repligo works very well for me and I read a lot of PDFs. Obviously, though, everyone's requirements are different and I hope you find what you want. (I just wanted to defend Repligo, which is rock-solid for my needs...) :good:
bigbamboo5 said:
Repligo works very well for me and I read a lot of PDFs. Obviously, though, everyone's requirements are different and I hope you find what you want. (I just wanted to defend Repligo, which is rock-solid for my needs...) :good:
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Fair enough lol, but you should definitely give SmartQ a try (it's free)
Does SmartQ have cropping function ? Lots of tech/sci PDFs have wide borders. I crop them in Mantano and it works really good.
rashid11 said:
Does SmartQ have cropping function ? Lots of tech/sci PDFs have wide borders. I crop them in Mantano and it works really good.
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Yes it does, haven't tried it though
another vote for mantano. it really is fantastic... and reads more than just pdf's
If you want smooth just force you on 2d in developer options. Problem solved. No stuttering at all.
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I get this effect on literally every site when i scroll is anyone else suffering this? Really annoying when showing off this baby when theres chequer boarding all the time wtf!!!
StickyGeko said:
I get this effect on literally every site when i scroll is anyone else suffering this? Really annoying when showing off this baby when theres chequer boarding all the time wtf!!!
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The problem happens when you try to view a part of the page that has not been loaded yet, if you have a fast network connection you will barely notice it !
run www.speedtest.net on your phone
It's not a loading issue, it's a rendering issue.
I agree, it's very annoying -- I presume Samsung have done it so that scrolling is super-smooth and rendering is done on a best-effort basis, but I'd rather it rendered the page as fast as it can and slowed down scrolling if necessary on complex pages.
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It's not a loading issue, it's a rendering issue.
I agree, it's very annoying -- I presume Samsung have done it so that scrolling is super-smooth and rendering is done on a best-effort basis, but I'd rather it rendered the page as fast as it can and slowed down scrolling if necessary on complex pages.
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i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
StickyGeko said:
i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
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so it happens even after the page is fully loaded, that stinks. it may have something to do with the browsser being hardware accelerated, while all other android phones have browser rendered entirely by the CPU for al content.
maybe some implementation of the way samsung did this is causing the issue?
so after fully loaded, can you scroll faster than the web page can be rendered, meaning it cant keep up with itself?
StickyGeko said:
i agree fella, page fully loaded, via wifi, scroll and it cheques, is there anyway of reducing this any1?
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Probably not with Samsung's browser. You could try another browser like Opera Mobile though as that doesn't have any checkerboarding.
RogerPodacter said:
so it happens even after the page is fully loaded, that stinks. it may have something to do with the browsser being hardware accelerated, while all other android phones have browser rendered entirely by the CPU for al content.
maybe some implementation of the way samsung did this is causing the issue?
so after fully loaded, can you scroll faster than the web page can be rendered, meaning it cant keep up with itself?
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Yes you can scroll fsster than it can keep up....sometimes... sometimes its just only there for a second or 2
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Probably not with Samsung's browser. You could try another browser like Opera Mobile though as that doesn't have any checkerboarding.
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ok its only affecting the stock browser, ive just tried opera/opera mini and dolphin hd.... try as i may i cannot replicate the issue at all, used the same sites... so for whatever reason the chequer boarding is there... its only in the stock browser.... from my experience.... no biggy, phew
The stock browser isn't amazing anyway and it doesn't support text reflow, I am using boat browser atm and liking it.
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The stock browser isn't amazing anyway and it doesn't support text reflow, I am using boat browser atm and liking it.
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dude it does text reflow, ill put a vid on youtube showing it if you like?
**** text reflow on my sgs2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzC2XP1Yw74 ****
its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Checkerboarding maintains framerate.. I'm all for it since I cringe every time I see a phone drop to lower double digit frames/second.
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its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Does this mean I will be able to watch BBC Iplayer HD (its using flash player) with a nice frame rate. At present It plays around 2 fps.
Dannyboyni said:
Does this mean I will be able to watch BBC Iplayer HD (its using flash player) with a nice frame rate. At present It plays around 2 fps.
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Good question,
I'll test for you now. I just thought, why not just use the iPlayer app? Gives you the option to stream at HQ (800KBPS) which on my WIFI, looks great.
Update: Just tested it in the browser, and it's as smooth as the APP. I'd say perfect framerate, apart from the odd jump here or there, but that may be due to connection as my WIFI is only on 1 bar in this room.
So good news
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Good question,
I'll test for you now. I just thought, why not just use the iPlayer app? Gives you the option to stream at HQ (800KBPS) which on my WIFI, looks great.
Update: Just tested it in the browser, and it's as smooth as the APP. I'd say perfect framerate, apart from the odd jump here or there, but that may be due to connection as my WIFI is only on 1 bar in this room.
So good news
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Did you enable Desktop user agent and go to the full bbc iplayer website. Could you test this exact video for me please, and let me know if you get smooth playback?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...ve..._with_Jools_Holland_Series_38_Episode_5/
What browser are you using as well. I do not believe you will get smooth playback when you play that video, cos I do not. So unless your galaxy s 2 is different from mine I dont know what to say.
hanged_man said:
its obviously that Samsung has modified the browser to make it feel much smoother than other Android device and it looks like they've followed iphone steps in that, by doing the checkers to avoid rendering non-visible parts of the page.
and lastly, the browser is not hardware accelerated as other people think. Hardware acceleration will probably be implemented in Android's next release (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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Are you sure because the galaxy s browser is said to be hardware accelerated. Also no other android browser has such a checker board pattern, maybe related to Samsung graphics chip integration?
StickyGeko said:
dude it does text reflow, ill put a vid on youtube showing it if you like?
**** text reflow on my sgs2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzC2XP1Yw74 ****
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Thanks for the video but the issue isn't what you've addressed. On the SGS which I still own, if you zoom in further after the initial double tap (which reflows) it should reflow again using the text size you zoomed into. To describe in steps
1) Open website in overview like XDA
2) Double tap to zoom in and it reflows - this is as far as you demonstrated
3) Increase zoom by pinching for example to to the maximum zoom level
4) Double tap and it should reflow with the font still at the maximum zoom level.
The SG2 fails to execute the 4th step, instead it reverts back to the initial overview page. A workaround to achieve step 4 is to switch the phone to landscape then back to portrait mode after step 3, but that's not how it's meant to work.
Hope this clarifies what the problem is.
Frostfree said:
Thanks for the video but the issue isn't what you've addressed. On the SGS which I still own, if you zoom in further after the initial double tap (which reflows) it should reflow again using the text size you zoomed into. To describe in steps
1) Open website in overview like XDA
2) Double tap to zoom in and it reflows - this is as far as you demonstrated
3) Increase zoom by pinching for example to to the maximum zoom level
4) Double tap and it should reflow with the font still at the maximum zoom level.
The SG2 fails to execute the 4th step, instead it reverts back to the initial overview page. A workaround to achieve step 4 is to switch the phone to landscape then back to portrait mode after step 3, but that's not how it's meant to work.
Hope this clarifies what the problem is.
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yeh i see what u mean now
hi all,
when using the browser in "heavy sites" it just isn't smooth(desktop view in facebook for EXM) .
there is a big lag between you swipe on the screen to the moment it acutually moves.
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big.
it is pitty, cause this rom is great at everything but this point.
it's the same on every CM9 build i've been on.
allways full wiped before flashing
please help
Amir Weissbrot
help please..
does anybody has the same issue?
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big
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The browsers don't have much RAM space on mobile phones. So they have to move some stuff (final rendering, Javascript engine ...) away to have the capability to move around on a website with very many HTML elements (such as Facebook)
Jellybean makes it a lot better, if you're a friend of living-on-the-edge then I recommend trying it out.
amirnew said:
hi all,
when using the browser in "heavy sites" it just isn't smooth(desktop view in facebook for EXM) .
there is a big lag between you swipe on the screen to the moment it acutually moves.
if you first touch the screen for a moment and than moves, the movment is instantly. i'm pretty sure it's a matter of some definition not something big.
it is pitty, cause this rom is great at everything but this point.
it's the same on every CM9 build i've been on.
allways full wiped before flashing
please help
Amir Weissbrot
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that is because they can't use gpu acceleration like in stock rom browser
EduMonzter said:
that is because they can't use gpu acceleration like in stock rom browser
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Why not?
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norpan111 said:
Why not?
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because samsung don't share these drivers. Its like with camera, cm9 camera don't have the same quality as stock samsung roms for the same reason
Just to bring a bit more attention here to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1929663
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On my POV - complete Dolphin replacement.
Try it, it's good!
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Light, fast, low on memory.
Got left gesture drawer and unique text zoom feature.
Opera :angel:
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It's not a preffered browser thread.
Make your own
super fast and user friendly, thanks!
good enough.
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On my POV - complete Dolphin replacement.
Try it, it's good!
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Light, fast, low on memory.
Got left gesture drawer and unique text zoom feature.
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Use this app since yesterday and yeah, I'm agreed with _n0p_ , this browser can be a complete Dolphin browser .. it fast and light .. :good:
With the resolution of the Google Nexus 10 being at 2560 by 1600, it can yield some incredibly good displays if the image is matched to the Native panel resolution. Check out the latest wallpaper taking advantage of this exact resolution I'm using on my own Google Nexus 10.
Just set that one up. Looks incredible. Where did you get that?
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Poloasis said:
Just set that one up. Looks incredible. Where did you get that?
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I wish I knew. I evidently found it using the Chrome web browser and now I can't seem to figure out where the history is to find the page. If I manage to hunt it down I will post a link on this thread.
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/3116/oxtongue_rapids.html
http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/1213997/
https://plus.google.com/+InterfaceLIFT/posts/CAT4Ad2zNoH
Just a few random results from plugging it through google image search, seems to be originally from interfacelift.com.
What he said
Funny you posted that. I am using it as my horizontal (landscape) desktop and a different picture for the vertical (portrait) desktop....at the same time.
Both from Interfacelift.
How did you guys manage to set that as wallpaper without the stupid cropping that gallery app always forces me to do?
I use picspeed wallpaper
beerope said:
How did you guys manage to set that as wallpaper without the stupid cropping that gallery app always forces me to do?
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Go to gallery and when it asks for the application to open the image, select pic speed wallpaper(available for free in play store). Picspeed does notforce you to crop.
It was pretty stupid for them to force us to crop our 1600p wallpapers. Seems like we need to wait for a while to get software optimized for nexus 10
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How did you guys manage to set that as wallpaper without the stupid cropping that gallery app always forces me do?
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Very good point. I used pic speed too, but if its scrollable then there isn't anyway that it's actually leveraging the image's native resolution. If anyone knows a fix please let us know.
goodburner said:
Go to gallery and when it asks for the application to open the image, select pic speed wallpaper(available for free in play store). Picspeed does notforce you to crop.
It was pretty stupid for them to force us to crop our 1600p wallpapers. Seems like we need to wait for a while to get software optimized for nexus 10
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Although I don't have a nexus 10, wouldn't this be because of the nav bar at the bottom? That would take up however many pixels leaving the screensaver to be 2560 x 1500 or so?
skells said:
Although I don't have a nexus 10, wouldn't this be because of the nav bar at the bottom? That would take up however many pixels leaving the screensaver to be 2560 x 1500 or so?
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No, the stock one would let you select only a fraction of the wallpaper if its very big like a 1600p one like how it should on a 4 inch screen. On a 10inch screen it looks magnified and ugly.
JPW1 said:
Very good point. I used pic speed too, but if its scrollable then there isn't anyway that it's actually leveraging the image's native resolution. If anyone knows a fix please let us know.
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You need to make your wallpaper a size that accounts for scrolling. It's 3966x2560 on this device. In landscape mode, only 1456 of the 2560 will be visible.
or use a launcher that you can disable wallpaper scrolling like apex or nova.
exrrive peace
that is one cool wallpaper
That Sir...is one freakin awesome pic! Amazing detail and looks great on the N10. Thanks!
Side note - picspeed is great!
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How did you guys manage to set that as wallpaper without the stupid cropping that gallery app always forces me to do?
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Download Simple Image Wallpaper. It installs as a Live Wallpaper that you can add full images too without cropping. I have been using that and it does work really well.
beerope said:
How did you guys manage to set that as wallpaper without the stupid cropping that gallery app always forces me to do?
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simple image wallpaper free
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...RnZWxpbmVhcHBzLnNpbXBsZWltYWdld2FsbHBhcGVyIl0.
extremely lightweight, doesn't clog up the app drawer and works flawlessly. endorsed by me
interfacelift is the greatest wallpaper site in the history of the world, seriously everything is sooooooooooo clear and HD many formats amazing talent and pictures #shedstear
waltthizzney said:
interfacelift is the greatest wallpaper site in the history of the world, seriously everything is sooooooooooo clear and HD many formats amazing talent and pictures #shedstear
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Really amazing pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Link: interfacelift.com
Stylus Beta.
I used it recently to take notes after getting sick and tired of S-Notes not formatting my writing into text the way I wanted.
Try bringing up a blank word document and taking notes that way. I have the worst handwriting in the world and it kept up with no problems.
You weren't kidding! I wonder if there is any way to set it up to work only when the s- pen is detected.
Can you please provide a link to the playstore as there are many stylus apps on there?
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Can you please provide a link to the playstore as there are many stylus apps on there?
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It's called "MyScript Stylus Beta"
Edit: Btw, it works great. I'll definitely purchase this when its offered. My new favorite tool/kbd.
Thanks for the heads up.
Steve
JarkMackson said:
I wonder if there is any way to set it up to work only when the s- pen is detected.
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Yes there is.
Install SPenBoard Switcher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46236231).
ddavtian said:
Yes there is.
Install SPenBoard Switcher (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46236231).
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Ho Ho! Much appreciated! Just bought the app!
thanks guys awesome apps
I would suggest to have a look at MyScript Notes Mobile (same company), which is designed for devices with S-Pen. I used that already on my Note 10.1 (N8000).
Me too
I use S pen board switcher with smart keyboard and MyScript stylus beta. Smart is awesome for typing and I can hit around 30-40 wpm with it. MyScript is the best too, much much faster and less glitchy, than the stock keyboard.