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Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:42 am
by feitelberg
Any chance for getting Flare to run as an app under iOS or Android? Currently, Flare is the only app that prevents me from moving to a tablet at work.
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:22 am
by NorthEast
You'd have to ask MadCap, but I can't really see it happening any time soon.
Do you think the current incarnations of iOS or Android are actually suited to running an app like Flare?
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:29 am
by RamonS
Even if a .NET app could be made to run on Linux (Android) or BSD (anything Apple) using Mono and there is enough processing power to move fat app like Flare I wonder if the UI design is touch friendly. I also question if creating content as in typing a lot of text on a soft keyboard is a great experience.
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:27 am
by KHHS
Not Android or iOS, but Flare should run on a Window-8-tablet like Lenovos Thinkpad Tablet 2.
I didn't try, but i guess it would be rather slow.
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:41 am
by RamonS
Still leaves the issues of not having a real keyboard and mouse...try to use check boxes with short or no labels on a tablet, close to impossible unless you use a stylus.
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:41 pm
by kevinmcl
That would have to be one honkin'-big tablet!
I'm staring at a dual-head setup with 24-inch and 27-inch displays, as I type this. Flare is on the right-hand screen, while Outlook and various source documents, and a draw program and some utilities and three or four SSH terminals are on the left screen... and I wish I had more room, so I wouldn't have to keep pausing to juggle windows.
Even if a tablet docked with a decent keyboard, I can't imagine forcing myself to work in such confined screen real estate.
If the employer forced me to do it, I believe I'd be whimpering a lot.... while I opened yet another window to update my resumé.
Re: Flare on iOS or Android?
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:25 am
by RamonS
kevinmcl wrote:Even if a tablet docked with a decent keyboard, I can't imagine forcing myself to work in such confined screen real estate.
As soon as you dock a tablet with a keyboard you have nothing more than an expensive and somewhat limited laptop. 'Real' laptops cost a fraction of modern tablets and can do more. Yes, they do weigh a few pounds more, but they are usable for content creation. There is a place and use for tablets, running Flare doesn't seem to be one of them.