Especially over the iOS version they (you all at Scrivener) got right royally roasted for the very protracted delay from glee-full announcement to final release.
@Anisevance The question that always needs to be asked is what version of Android is Scrivener to run on. Apple users might go for recent models of iPhone but the Andoid hardware/software base is wide and disparate with many users not using a recent versions of the Android software nor hardware between which raise huge support implication for anyone writing Androiad apps. Market analysis companies report that there are still Marshmallow (v6 of Android software released in 2015) users around. Hereās one such recent analysis
Where are Literature and Latte supposed to make the cutoff for support of Android versions? Especially with version 14 slated for release later this year.
If this was a valid argument, there would be no Android apps out there! If youāre looking for someone to just jump in and make a decision: 10.0, unless there is some reason why the app will rely on functionality in later releases.
@Scriptdoctor this is a great workaround ā thanks for suggesting! Have you had success using it for Scrivener on an Android tablet or phone? Any tips (other than the tutorial install link you sent)?
If this was a valid argument, there would be no Android apps out there!
And there are indeed fewer high quality Android apps than there are iOS apps, for this very reason. You will find both Scrivener, Ulysses and 1Writer on iOS, and not on Android. And, more importantly, because the money is in iOS apps, not Android apps.
Breaking compatibility at 10.0 would kill usability of Scrivener for me. I use my Planet Gemini with its built in physical keyboard for on the go note taking, and it can only use Android 8.1.
Hey. Just for adding correct data about thisā¦ As for now, only 1.48% is using Marshmallowā¦ that percentage is insignificat and shouldnāt be taked as a goal. The market right now is Android 11 and above, you can incluid Android 10 for more engagement.
In the other handā¦ not having an Android version for Scrivener is lefting almost the 70% of the market without the possibility of using Scrivener on mobile.
(you can check the data on the same web)
I can understand iOS is the main priority on this project, but I think you may consider working on an Android version as many people is expecting it since 2016 as far as I could see on the forum.
Iām a software developer with 8 years of experience in web and mobile development. I have my own software consulting and contracting company, and I would love to partner on an Android version of the Scrivener app. I love my macOS version and just got an e-ink Android tablet. It would definitely be nice to have a native Android app on my tablet to continue working on-the-go.
This thread is pretty old, yet I havenāt seen anything about developing an Android version of Scrivener. I hope the idea isnāt dead. Iād love to be able to use Scrivener on my phone and tablet to scribble down ideas for my WIP at odd times, or spend waiting time writing. Might there be a problem because Android versions are constantly changing? I have no idea how writing code for apps even works, but it seems like that would be quite the challenge to keep up with all the new Android iterations. It sure would be a handy app to have, though.
Apparently (from something I read elsewhere on the board) there definitely will be an Android version, but as always L&L donāt comment on unannounced versions.
I am always amused by the 70% and higher claims as above which is a crazy misuse of statistics.
Given that the VAST (and it really is VAST) majority of Android devices sold worldwide are barely āsmartā, and are often supplied with non-updatable old versions of Android, the actual addressable market is significantly less. The ACTUAL Android addressable market is that covered by the top products only from the top manufacturers (even Samsungās majority sales are low end to developing nations). The reality is the addressable Android market for productivity apps is significantly smaller, though still substantial in actual numbers, but 70% it is most definitely NOT.
Regardless, Android faithful will (one day ) get a version of Scrivener from what Iāve read. The first news will likely be a call for beta testers as per another recent announcement.
With E-ink devices running Android being more and more viable for tasking work, the need for an Android version of Scrivener grows. Imagine using Scrivener with an E-ink typewriter-esque experience . That is the holy grail to me.
Maybe thatās subjective. The technology is getting better, but it still annoys me too much. Like those slow phosphor and early LCD displays back in the 80s.
Even watching this graphics guy reviewing the Boox Note Air 3 C (with BSR), explaining how itās almost like drawing with a pen on paper, and seeing how itās very much not, the āinkā desperately trying to catch up with the stylusā¦ Great for reading a static page however, yes. I get the appeal in general.
The good news is that way more advanced eInk panels will probably be mainstream before Scrivener for Android enters the stage. Well. Hopefully Iām wrong with that.
Wow. I did a cursory search just to see if this has been discussed beforeā¦
Adding my 2c to say that if there were Scrivener for Android I could travel for extended periods with just my Samsung tablet, which is so much lighter and more portable than my laptop. I envision traveling around the world for months on a book project, and never needing to check a bag, and a full-featured Scrivener for Android would do so much to make that possible.
I am not an Apple/iPad/iPhone fan.
And if the Android app could be made compatible with the Windows softwareā¦ oh so perfect! Then I get home and everything is ready to go for publication.
While an Android version is coming, Iād be very surprised (in a positive way) if it came āfull-featuredā. As in: like the desktop version on macOS or Windows. Probably more along the lines of Scrivener for iOS.
Worth pointing out that when you sync with an external folder in Scrivener for Windows, it can save the documents with file names from the first āxā characters of the Synopsis text, which makes it easy to find a file youāre working on in any other Windows or Android or iOs folder. Iām not sure what āxā is but it certainly saves enough of the synopsis as the file name to identify any specific scene/chapter.
I messed about for ages with parsing the xml in the Scrivener project file using VBA scripts and saving the Scrivener .rtf files with the Synopsis as the file name, before finding out that external folder syncing does it for me.
I suspect youāre write, but thereās absolutely no reason why that should be the case. Neednāt be the case on iOS, either. On a phone, maybe you have to impose some restrictions (but only maybeā¦) - on my Galaxy Tab 9 Ultra with keyboard, there really isnāt anything it canāt do that Mac or Windows can.
Well, it canāt run Mac or Windows software. (Begs the question: Why? Why canāt the richest companies in the world just let you run macOS or Windows on their top tier-devices? Thereās absolutely no reason!) So a completely new app hast to be developed.
An app that runs not only on high-end tablets, but on the lowest of the low spec phones and tablets with no external keyboard. Especially on those. This reality isnāt going to change, no matter what device you use.
Why donāt you just tell Apple, Samsung or Microsoft how simple that is, so that we donāt have to bug small developers to work around those (software-)limited devices?
) get a version of Scrivener from what Iāve read. The first news will likely be a call for beta testers as per another recent announcement.
Well. Hopefully Iām wrong with that.
