Sherry, I have just purchased a Kindle Fire (First version) from a friend and will install Families on that and use Families Sync on my computer, do you have any suggestions/tips for when I do this?
Colin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sherry/Support To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 2:17 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Running the Families app on a Windows tablet Malcolm, First of all, I *love* Families and have it on my Kindle Fire and Android Atrix phone. But I wonder why you'd want to run the app on the Intel Windows 8 tablet (i.e., Surface Pro) when you can run Legacy on it? Isn't that version supposed to run any program which will run on Windows 7? I do hope that someone comes up with a Windows 8 Phone or Windows RT genealogy app like Families. It's something that's really needed and not having a genealogy app has prevented me from getting a Windows phone or tablet (I've played around with my husband's Windows phone and it's *so* easy to use). Until then, I'm sticking with Android devices. Thanks, Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Malcolm Green <[email protected]> wrote: Someone recently questioned whether a version of the Families app would be released for Windows tablets. We currently have no plans to develop a version for Windows but there is a way to run the Android version of the app on Windows, using BlueStacks App Player (www.bluestacks.com). This enables the app to be installed from Google Play and other app stores on Windows 7 or 8. Currently it only works on the Intel version of Windows 8 (e.g. on the Surface Pro tablet), but BlueStacks have indicated that support for the ARM version (e.g. the Surface RT tablet) may be available some time this year. Families appears to work well with BlueStacks. File transfer using Wi-Fi or USB can’t be used but transfer using DropBox works well. We’ll be interested to hear from anyone who uses Families with BlueStacks. Malcolm Green TelGen Limited Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
