I have two Android tablets (cheap, no-name chines Tablets) one with capacitive touchscreen and one with resistive touchscreen.
I wrote a small Android application, which sends all inputs to my PC to a Java application (and displays it on the tablet also). I first bought the one with resistive touchscreen, the touchscreen is really bad, but even if it would be better, you cannot use it as tablet for writing, you have to place your hand somewhere, and if this is on your display the pen is not working any more... => resistive touch screen is not usable... Then capacitive: my finger is to imprecise to use, so I build a "pen" (you can also buy one;-)) you can simple use anti-static packagingn matrial, e.g. from computer parts (processor, ram whatever) and use this as "pen", but its to imprecise... You cannot compare it with a wacom tablet... => also not usable... You may can use this mark some text parts, or to insert keyboard-written text, but not for hand-writing. (if you would buy a cheap tablet-pc: you can search in online auctions, there are often companies which sell her two year old tablets really cheap...) > An interesting idea is that with the Android app store(s) we could actually > sell > xournal too. Perhaps we could use the funds to put up bounties or otherwise > reward active developers. I thinks this is not possible, because of the GPL license... > I still have to study it, but I plan to use the C++ port of it, try to > create a small OS-independent library with all the Xournal logic in > it. At the moment it is not abstract enough to port it to other devices, my first target is now to get all running, but after we can split it up into libxournal and Xournal-GTK, Xournal-Android, Xournal-Mameo or whatever. (I don't want that you have to copy the code, if we have the same base we don't need to merge if somebody changes something...) For Android we need also JNI. I may can help you, I did such things before, not on the android platform, but I think there is no big difference to other Java platforms. Andreas Am 17.01.2011 15:16, schrieb Aniello Del Sorbo: > I do plan to port Xournal on Android/Symbian and Win Phone 7 devices. > I still have to study it, but I plan to use the C++ port of it, try to > create a small OS-independent library with all the Xournal logic in > it. > It should be as much as UI independent as possible. > Having that, it SHOULD be just a matter or adapting the UI to the > differente OSes/device sizes out there. > > Aniello > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:31, Bob McElrath <b...@mcelrath.org> wrote: >> My Thinkpad X61 is nearing the end of its life...it's developed some bubbles >> under the screen (grrrr) and will probably have to be replaced soon. >> >> The flood of new tablets at CES this year has me looking at Android tablets >> for >> a possible replacement. A 10.1" screen at 1280x800 has about the same DPI >> as my >> thinkpad's 12.1" screen at 1400x1050 (even if it is disappointingly small >> compared to a sheet of paper). There are many tablets with this >> specification, >> for a specific example, google the Motorola Xoom. What I don't know yet is >> if >> any of them will have a reasonable pen/stylus interface. Capacitive screens >> in >> general are bad for this, and almost all devices have one. For comparison, >> my >> Nokia n900 is almost unusable with xournal because the screen can't tell the >> difference between my hand and the stylus. For some $&^*%#(*$ reason, these >> idiot manufacturers don't see the killer app of replacing paper with these >> devices. >> >> Anyway, there will soon be a lot of these Android tablets on the market. A >> port >> of xournal that runs on Android will be highly desirable in the very near >> future. Has anyone else given any thought to this? Can anyone address my >> question above about using a stylus with these devices in general? >> >> An interesting idea is that with the Android app store(s) we could actually >> sell >> xournal too. Perhaps we could use the funds to put up bounties or otherwise >> reward active developers. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Bob McElrath [ Heidelberg University, Theoretical Physics ] >> >> "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the >> Universe." -- Carl Sagan >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks >> Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. 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