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Originally Posted by tuxor
At first, I'm a M92 user (order is placed and my device is going to arrive in the next few days). Please note, that I'm a more or less untalented hobby coder - not more. So if I decide to write more than a single line of code for this device, I want it to give a good return.
Again: If you want to convince anybody in this whole world with programming abilities to port Android to the Boox series of devices you need to name real _reasons_. Not only stuff like "would be cool to have android", "there is this certain app I'd like to have".
A developer makes the decision between contributing to Onyx' official open source firmware or trying to port Android. And to make this decision he definitely needs concrete information about _feature_ requests, not _app_ requests. Of course, it's helpful if you name a concrete app that already has this feature, but the name of the app without a single feature is not very helpful.
EDIT: Sorry, I'm ranting so much. You obviously already got the point:
But others should really start talking about functionality _and_ about applications. (Unfortunately I can't contribute to feature requests myself at the moment since my M92 is still about to arrive.)
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You are not the first contributor in this thread to go overboard with enthusiasm concerning a device you don't even own.
Some people post like crazy in the first two weeks they use their reader, only to be never heard of again.
It has been posted several times before:
for serious work you have to have at least some functionality of a PC or tablet.
That means in my case: PDF-reader/annotater, clipboard/multiple clipboard, notes application/Evernote, scribbles/notes, simple writing application, basic web-access to look up Wiki-entries.
Easy task-switching to be able to use the programs ergonomically.
This is not much to ask - despite of that not available.
And will not be available in the near future.
So porting the whole damn thing to Android seems to be more rational, because all the apps are already available.
If you plan just to read some PDFs, be part of an open source project, play with you reader for endless hours to find out how to operate the device - you will be one of the many happy customers in existence ...