Thanks for the tip on turning off predictive typing, etc.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Skip Cave <s...@caveconsulting.com> wrote: > My install story with J on Android: > > My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Android Jellybean 4.3). > > 1. Went to Settings/More/Security/ and checked "Allow install from unknown > sources" and unchecked "Block or warn before installing apps that may cause > harm" > > 2. Went to J Software download page. Downloaded 8.01 qtide-signed.apk. The > .apk downloaded quickly, and went into the Download folder in the Phone's > non-violatle storage (not in my added SD Card) > > 3. Green J icon appeared in apps window. Pressed and held the J icon, to > drop icon on main desktop. > > 4.Tapped green J icon, got a black screen for a couple of seconds, then got > J interactive window. > > 5. typed 2+2. screen showed 222. Typed i.4. Screen showed I.4 (cap I) > > 6. Went to Settings/Language & Input/Samsung keyboard setup. Turned off > Predictive text. Turned off Auto-spacing. Turned off Auto-capitalization. > Turned off Auto-punctuate. > > 7. Typed 2+2. screen showed 2+2. Typed i.4. Screen showed i.4. Much > better. Does J have an alternate keyboard you can install just for J only, > so I don't have to keep turning the auto-help stuff on and off? I need a > keyboard with the lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation all present > & unshifted, with uppercase being the only shift change. > > 8. Pressed menu button (lower left, below screen). Selected Tools/Package > Manager. Selected 'All', Selected 'Install'. Nothing happened. Scrolling > through Packages is weird. Rather than the Package list moving with your > finger, the list stays stationary, and the highlight moves. You have to run > your finger off either end of the list to get the list to scroll. Not very > good for a touch-screen UI. > > 9. I went back to main screen & tried more stuff with primitives. Things > seem to be basically working. Came back a few minutes later and tried > Package Manager again. This time it showed all packages installed! Need to > have a progress indicator somewhere. There was no indication that anything > was downloading. > > 10. Found LaunchPad under Menu/Run. Took me awhile to find it, as I didn't > expect it under "Run". There were TWO 'LaunchPad' selections under the Run > menu.Both seemed to do the same thing. Both selections gave two choices - > qtdemo and wddemo. Most LaunchPad demos seemed to work, both wd & qt. > > I may have more comments later. > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
