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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by omnimus »

mkl wrote: post #24
omnimus wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody wants A4 tablet trust me its not worth it. Ive seen so many pros replace them with A5 or even A6 because its better and more convinient. On the other hand any other brand than the leading brand is truly terrible.

I do! This doesn't make sense to me. I have a Galaxy Note 12.2, and it's great, but bigger would be better (it's not quite A4). I also have a 12"×9" Wacom Intuos, 12" Surface Pro, 15" Surface Book 2 from work. All of those would be even better bigger (but the work laptop wouldn't fit in my backpack any more). I have a small Wacom tablet too, and it's too small to be very useful.

Touchscreens and Tablets are something very different. Sure you want as big screen as possible.

I bet most people who switch to touchscreens never want tablet back. Many people prefer tablets over touchscreens because you don't have to slouch.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by StavrosK »

mbeex wrote: post #45
StavrosK wrote: post #37

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$50.

Not for a Wacom with form factor >= A4. These have easily a price tag in the higher three-digit Euro range (and even more). Things like the A5 (!) Bamboo slate _start_ at 100 EU. @parent Of course - I also switched for ebooks from a dedicated reader to a tablet. But I'm still missing the ability for reading in the full sun, power for two weeks w/o charging, easiness on the eyes. Similar - but harder to tolerate - thi…

I was talking about the GAOMON the GP mentioned.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by Youden »

I'm not an artist myself but I follow David Revoy, who [0] uses Krita and other open-source software extensively for his Pepper & Carrot comic [1]. His blog [0] is full of posts about how he does his work using open-source tools.

There are plenty of fantastic artists who use Krita but I find him interesting because of how dedicated he is to using open-source software for all his work.

[0]: https://www.davidrevoy.com/

[1]: https://www.peppercarrot.com/

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by hellozee »

varbhat wrote: post #53

Congratulations Krita. But, Play store is showing that "Device is incompatible" to my phone. Is this restricted to Tablets? Another suggestion. Can't Mobile compatible UI be created (using MAUIKIT/Qt) so that Krita can become best image software for phones too ?

Yes only for tablets and chromebooks for now.

It uses Qtwidgets and mauikit qml so it would be a heck of a job to port that to qml

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by edjrage »

hellozee wrote: post #56
varbhat wrote: post #53

Congratulations Krita. But, Play store is showing that "Device is incompatible" to my phone. Is this restricted to Tablets? Another suggestion. Can't Mobile compatible UI be created (using MAUIKIT/Qt) so that Krita can become best image software for phones too ?

Yes only for tablets and chromebooks for now. It uses Qtwidgets and mauikit qml so it would be a heck of a job to port that to qml

Why not publish it for phones too? Something to do with UI polishing (widget arrangement, responsiveness)?

I have a phablet (6+ inches, high resolution and DPI) with pressure-sensitive stylus and I'd love to see Krita running on it, even if the UI is not optimized yet.

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by jowsie »

omnimus wrote: post #50
mbeex wrote: post #30

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> Nobody wants A4 tablet trust me its not worth it. Why should I do so when I have my own experience? > On the other hand any other brand than the leading brand is truly terrible. So you've tried them all? Not to talk about the use cases...

True i havent tried them all. Ocassionaly somebody around has some wierd brand and it has never been really good. But it might just be certain feeling wacoms have that is something acquired and might not mean it's better.

It's possibly it's something the Wacom drivers is doing (smoothing, etc). There's a game called osu! where lots of people play with graphics tablets, and a lot of people use cheaper chinese (Gaomon) tablets, with open source drivers that let you emulate the smoothing of Wacom drivers.

https://github.com/hawku/TabletDriver

Re: First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store

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Post by hellozee »

edjrage wrote: post #57
hellozee wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes only for tablets and chromebooks for now. It uses Qtwidgets and mauikit qml so it would be a heck of a job to port that to qml

Why not publish it for phones too? Something to do with UI polishing (widget arrangement, responsiveness)? I have a phablet (6+ inches, high resolution and DPI) with pressure-sensitive stylus and I'd love to see Krita running on it, even if the UI is not optimized yet.

Yes, the UI isn't exactly the best thing even for tablets, so we refrained from releasing it for phones. Though you could always side load it once we have it in fdroid.
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