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As for the market, unless they dramatically improve the specs, I would see it as being primarily for those who cannot afford a larger device. |
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09-16-2017, 05:51 AM | #62 | |
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Ok, now the answer is yes, and the results are positive, convincing and pleasantly suprising. I tried App Switcher (com.milansamardzic.recentapp) from Milan Samardžić: it works well, but it would be possible to do even better - disabling the animations and using one less tap (it has a notification icon, but it is not single-tap like a button: it opens the notification window and then you open the task switcher from there). A very nice feat: it shows the memory consumption. The local thread relevant to task switching is this. But I found App Switcher directly browsing the Market. I am switching several versions of Librera. Having tested all the betas for the past three weeks, I have several versions installed simultaneously (I changed the package name to do that). Experience: brilliant. To summon the task switcher is not immediate, but task switching between very heavy PDF files is lightning fast. And memory consumption is not bad either. |
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09-17-2017, 12:30 PM | #63 | |
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09-18-2017, 03:14 PM | #64 | |
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Is the new Onyx 10.3" really a 4:3 aspect ratio? It appears to be 3:2, just like the older ones. |
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09-18-2017, 04:12 PM | #65 |
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Very nice for users of the the default ContentBrowser gui of the boox readers! Great contribution!
Unfortunately i see no way how to properly use this with RelaunchX that i much prefer over the comparatively rather unpractical Boox default user interface. Nonetheless, my main point is that such a functionality should really be included out of the box ex factory, but is not. A working multitasking addon was published by Booxtor for the venerable i62HD and worked reasonably well. But that device is already history. |
09-18-2017, 04:47 PM | #67 | |
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Android's "recent tasks switcher" is there in the system... It's just that we are missing a "Home" button to trigger it! If you inject the keypress manually with a `adb -d shell input keyevent 187`, it appears... That's strange, I have to check this RelaunchX - do you mean it does not have a statusbar? |
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09-23-2017, 10:14 AM | #68 | |
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Switching between documents is a bit difficult if just multiple instances of the same reader app's icon instead of the document title is shown, so one doesn't know where touching an icon ends up. Also, it was not possible anymore to simply close a document, the app icon kept popping up. I lost interest investing any more time with further trials, please pardon me for that. As i wrote before, this is something the upstream vendor should really take care of. The usability and overall practicability of a reader device is of utmost importance and the software should be much better designed in this regard. Great hardware is useless if the included software doesn't take advantage of it's possibilities out of the box. Especially if we don't deal with an open sourced platform as Android simply doesn't cut it. After watching the video reviews posted in the reMarkable thread it should become clear how with a strong focus on software capabilities such a device very much gains in usability and thus attractivity. After seeing those videos i feel rather tempted to buy a reMarkable instead of any further Boox device with much inferior software offerings. Last edited by orebmur; 09-23-2017 at 11:13 AM. |
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To each its own? I understand that's a closed, specialized device. The day you will have troubles (both extensively and intensively - what it does, how it does it) with that still carefully crafted software you will have to cope with it. Today, my limits are the hardware, not the software. |
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It appears to be rather obvious that Boox doesn't have the man power nor advanced enough skills to provide a well made software offering. Everything is working only at a very basic level, as if created by non-expert developers. A pity they don't fully open their software to allow interested third parties to fork it and provide enhancements and maybe even a fully reworked clone. Even with the current slowish CPU offerings, the Boox devices would be phantastic tools if only the software capabilities were on par with the hardware. |
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