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Originally Posted by jask
You just read my mind, I was kind of looking up where to find ports of the onyx or maybe sony apks, with no success.
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As a developer (though not mobile/Android), this is how I understand the whole topic. Each manufacturer (Sony, Onyx, Remarkable, etc.) creates an SDK targeting their own devices that lets applications make use of "note taking e-ink"-specific capabilities like super responsive drawing with a stylus. These SDKs supposedly depend on certain hardware/firmware, so that's why every vendor has their own (but who knows, if they got together perhaps they could create a unified SDK).
As a result, I think:
- It's just not possible to use APKs from other vendors, because they may rely on certain runtime components/firmware that aren't present on your device.
- Standard, non-e-ink-aware applications like One Note and Squid are not ever going to be fast on any e-ink device unless their developers create versions that use the aforementioned SDKs, and, let's be honest, that is not happening any time soon.
- There isn't going to be a single e-ink optimized note-taking application working perfectly across all devices without a unified SDK
Again, I'm not an Android programmer, so I might have got this wrong.