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Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by diziet »

csmuk wrote: post #15

No RPN. Neckbeard status confirmed. Calculators are still an unsolved problem for me on glass devices to the point I still religiously carry around an HP50G even though its 6x the size of my phone. Also from some bad experiences, it appears that some "app" calculators are also seriously badly implemented. Even basic trig ops can return stupid values at extremes which makes them untrustworthy. Plus none are reasonably…

There's a ton of calculators that do RPN on iPhone, for those who like that.

Ie: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/incpt-dot-mobis/app/calculato... https://sensortower.com/ios/us/vicinno-soft-llc/app/12e-fina... https://sensortower.com/ios/us/tla-systems-ltd/app/pcalc-the...

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by visakanv »

tolmasky wrote: post #26
jckt wrote: post #4

Graphing functionality on a phone reminds me of an old TI calculator. I really don't know why recent OSes (be it on PC, smartphone, tablet) always came with such feeble calculators. It's not like TI calculators are difficult to use. Sure if all you want is add/min/mul/div functionality the TI is essentially a traditional calculator, and then behind that you've got all these nifty graphing utilities. It's not like a g…

Just a musing: perhaps its considered not as valuable an investment to program since a (the?) primary market is students, and students are probably not allowed to use phones on tests for obvious reasons (internet connectivity, texting questions to each other, overall distraction). However, TI's are state approved or whatever.

It's so sad that kids with iphones aren't allowed to use phones on tests. They're being tested in an archaic context for archaic purposes. Under what circumstances are people going to be working without internet access? School has a lot of catching up to do with the real world. :(

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by eurleif »

visakanv wrote: post #42
tolmasky wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a musing: perhaps its considered not as valuable an investment to program since a (the?) primary market is students, and students are probably not allowed to use phones on tests for obvious reasons (internet connectivity, texting questions to each other, overall distraction). However, TI's are state approved or whatever.

It's so sad that kids with iphones aren't allowed to use phones on tests. They're being tested in an archaic context for archaic purposes. Under what circumstances are people going to be working without internet access? School has a lot of catching up to do with the real world. :(

Except that standardized tests are reused, which is another difference from real life problems. In real life, you're not always solving a problem that numerous other people have already solved, and posted solutions to.

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by oliwary »

I love it! Great design and should be very flexible to create simple functions through linked numbers.

Is it really a good idea to allow 96 + 15% though (at 0:45)? Might cause some problems for people learning maths, as it won't work on normal calculators and doesn't really make it obvious what percentages actually are.

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by interpol_p »

edoloughlin wrote: post #32

Tydlig supports external Bluetooth keyboards or numpads for really quick entry It's been a while since i did any ios development and this was never a requirement for me. Can someone explain why an external keyboard is something that had to be explicitly supported at an individual app level? Surely this should be an OS-level thing?

It's not an explicit requirement, but you definitely need to test your app with an external keyboard to polish the experience.

Here's a couple of situations that can get you when supporting an external Bluetooth keyboard:

- Input accessory view. If you use an input accessory view (bar that sits atop the regular software keyboard), then connecting an external keyboard will cause the software keyboard to hide but keep the accessory view on screen. This is great — but if you had any controls underneath the keyboard (especially on iPad) that required the user to dismiss the keyboard to get to them, then you have to build a way for them to 'dismiss' the keyboard when using an external keyboard.

- Custom keyboard. You might build a custom keyboard for your app. Connecting an external one will not show your custom keyboard. You'll need to ensure that functionality is still provided when an external keyboard is connected.

There are a few other things like making sure your keyboard view resizing code is robust enough to handle all the possible state transitions ("no input -> software input -> bluetooth input", or "no input -> bluetooth input -> software input", and so on).

If you're just using a standard text view you probably don't need to do anything special. But in this case Tydlig seems to do a lot of special stuff and probably required a bit of extra work to get Bluetooth keyboards running without issue.

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by asselinpaul »

fophillips wrote: post #31
tolmasky wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a musing: perhaps its considered not as valuable an investment to program since a (the?) primary market is students, and students are probably not allowed to use phones on tests for obvious reasons (internet connectivity, texting questions to each other, overall distraction). However, TI's are state approved or whatever.

Never been allowed to use a TI for exams in the UK. I've only ever been allowed to use a Casio.

I am currently in Year 13 in London. You are definitely allowed TI in the mathematics exams (A-Levels). TI-89 is one of the only that is banned because of its CAS.

Friends in the French system are allowed the TI 89 though.

Re: Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone

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Post by corkill »

chinpokomon wrote: post #25
avolcano wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because an OS has a "majority market share" doesn't make it a suitable market. Elegant, minimal premium apps like Clear have done well on the iOS app store, but it's hard to imagine a $5 calculator app getting much interest on Android.

Why is that hard to imagine? If the application were released for Android, I would have considered it. I've already purchased several Android calculators. There's no real basis for your claim, but I say this while I also realize I haven't provided sufficient evidence to support why Android would be a better platform. The reason I think a lot of applications like this fail on Android is that the developers first targe…

Although you may personally have considered purchasing this calculator on Android. I think he was hinting at the fact that an IOS user is more likely on average to purchase an app and pay a premium for it, hence being more lucrative for developers even with less market share.

"the App Store generated 2.3x more revenues than Google Play."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/01/android-ap...

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