Almost no experience with Android (I’m a very happy member of Apple’s Evil Empire) but VLC is the best multimedia app I’ve used on any OS. It plays everything and is surprisingly powerful. As for comics I was using ComiXology until Amazon removed the ability to buy stuff through the app (although it’s likely still there for Android). If you wanted something to load your own downloaded comics into (PDF or CBZ files) I’d say give Comic Zeal a look. I’ve used it in the past and was happy with it, and it loos like they’ve made some serious improvements.
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Android KitKat (4.4.4) on my TouchPad > Date: June 23, 2015 at 8:21:35 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > After doing the installation, I got to spend a good portion of the evening > using the tablet with KitKat, and I have to say that so far, everything runs > really smoothly. The TouchPad is a great tablet from a screen & hardware > perspective, and Android is very responsive and fun to use on it. I was > always one to sing the praises of WebOS but KitKat is much more modern OS and > "feels" more advanced than WebOS. For example, Youtube is lightning fast and > plays super smooth -- WebOS always had a problem with Youtube. The amount of > Apps in the Google Play Store is astounding (this one is not super surprising > as I had been playing around with the freebie Android 4.4.2 tablet we got a > while back). > > Some notes: > > --I went with KitKat 4.4.4 as the 4.4 ROM builds are more stable and > time-tested than the 5.0 ROMs. There are multiple development ROM kits out > there for the different versions of Android for use on the TouchPad. > > --Installation takes a few steps, but the TPToolbox (developed by JCsullins) > makes it several orders of magnitude less complicated than it used to be. > Essentially, you reboot the TouchPad into USB Recovery mode and connect it to > your PC/Mac/Linux box, and then run the TPToolbox. It will mount the > TouchPad's SD card as a media drive, and create a new folder on that drive > for you. Into this folder you will copy your chosen ROM, Recovery, and > Google Apps ZIP files. From there, you eject the media volume, and then it > installs your chosen Android flavor, reboots, and voila. You can read more > about the process here: > http://rootzwiki.com/topic/179730-rom-guidehow-to-install-android-50x-44x-with-jcsullins-tptoolbox-the-super-easy-way/ > > --Next steps: get a comics reader and video player. Anyone have any good > suggestions for Android apps for comics and videos (MP4)? > > On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 9:27:34 PM UTC-4, Luke Jaconetti wrote: > WebOS was becoming more and more unstable. I took the plunge and did the > Android installation. using the utility TPToolkit. I installed Android Kit > Kat in about 30 minutes on my TouchPad. In fact, I am typing this message on > the TouchPad in Android right now! So glad that everything went well,the > toolkit makes everything very straightforward. If anyone is interested, I can > elaborate further. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek > <http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
