Optimisation for iPad Pro? / Annotations Capture
Just got the iPad Pro the other day, and reading books themselves on it in Marvin works great out of the box. You can decrease your usual font-size with 3 or even more (!) button presses compared to Marvin running on an iPad Air (let alone an iPad mini), and thanks to the huge screen, the text still remains perfectly legible. So, you need to flip pages far less frequently on an iPad Pro, and can see a lot more text at a single glance – something I appreciate especially when reading "technical"/non-fiction e-books.
However, inside Marvin's Library, given the button sizes etc., it's obvious that Marvin hasn't really been optimised to take advantage of the iPad Pro's expansive screen. Will this ever happen, Kris? It's not really necessary, but it would be "nice to have". For example, Marvin on iPad Pro still calls up Apple's default iOS keyboard instead of the new keyboard developed explicitly for iPad Pro. The default iOS keyboard looks pretty ugly on an iPad Pro, though, given its oversized keys.
Not that Marvin's support of Apple's new iPad Pro keyboard would really help me, as I use the SwiftKey keyboard, anyway, in which no iPad Pro-only layout is available; however, SwiftKey keyboards on iPad Pro don't (to me) look quite as ridiculously and unnecessarily huge as Apple's default keyboard. I can't wait for something like the superb Multiling O keyboard from Android to arrive on iOS (I've already spoken to its Chinese developer), so that I can, at long last, fully customize the layout of the keyboards I use in iOS (not just their coloring, but also the position of each individual letter on a keyboard).
PS: But to be honest, I'd appreciate the option of multi-media/audio annotations even more – that is, the option to record dictated annotations as I'm reading a book in Marvin. Dictating stuff is a lot faster than typing it in any fashion. And no, I don't mean relying on the crappy and unusable Siri for converting spoken into written word; that would drive me nuts even if it did work as expected. I mean the option to record an annotation in an ordinary MP3 file, ideally cloud-based as in the excellent DropVox app, when popping up a notes/annotations window in the usual way as I'm reading a book in Marvin.
Last edited by Faterson; 11-14-2015 at 10:54 PM.
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