Although, sadly, right now iOS development has diverted resources from desktop development, as I am now the sole iOS developer, working on that full time and putting Scrivener for Mac on temporary hold… However, to answer your questions, MatthewB:
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It will indeed work on a phone. This is the main reason I want it myself - I peck out notes on my phone and email them to myself, copying them into my Scrivener project, regularly. Being able to make the notes directly in the Scrivener project and have them sync will be a godsend.
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Many thanks for the kind words! And don’t fear. Although I’ve temporarily had to take over the iOS project and make it a priority, the desktop version will remain our flagship project. Behind the scenes, I’ve been working on a major update to the Mac version for nearly three years now. My working on the iOS version for a little while at least gives the Windows team some time to catch up on some of the features planned for that next major version. We’ll have news about all these things next year - at long last.
Silverdragon - thanks also for the kind words of support. I think the iPad Pro is really going to confuse people. It’s bigger than - and nearly as heavy as - a MacBook 12" (which makes me wonder why anyone would want to use it as a writing machine over a MacBook, but hey, I’m clearly getting old…), but nowhere near as capable as a MacBook. Many users aren’t going to know that, though, of course, nor care about how far behind the Mac’s text system the iOS text system is…
On the plus side, what I’m enjoying about working on the iOS version is that I’m sort of back to building the bare bones of the app I originally set out to create with Scrivener. Scrivener is the powerhouse version with all sorts of ways of viewing, manipulating and exporting your data; it has the core features I wanted originally plus a lot more; the iOS version is just those core features pared right down, and nothing else. I hope it will be a nice writing environment in itself, but one you’ll want to use in conjunction with the desktop version.
Right, back to Dropbox code…