Anyone know if they're using React Native for this?
New Khan Academy mobile apps, including first official Android app
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#12Anyone know if they're using React Native for this?
(I worked on the Android app.)
No, we're not using React Native yet, but we're hoping to start using it in the near future.
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#13How will the mobile app enhance the delivery of education that the mobile website won't? [edit: thank you for all the replies!]
I haven't tried the Android app, but on an iPad the app experience vs the web-experience is like night and day for doing math problems.
You can easily draw your calculations anywhere on the screen, and when entering final results, you handwrite it, making square roots and fractions so much easier.
It is much more fun to do math problems on the iPad app than any other way I've tried.
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#14What possible reason is there not to open the source for these apps?
There could be so many contributions and innovations from people who want to help with the code.
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#15What possible reason is there not to open the source for these apps? There could be so many contributions and innovations from people who want to help with the code.
> What possible reason is there not to open the source for these apps?
They don't own the right to distribute all the source for the apps? (I mean, it's possible.)
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#16Any way to share content between devices? Or have a central repository of content on a LAN that you can download to your device? An Android app with content sharing could enable a great offline Khan Academy experience in places without high-speed internet.
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#17This is amazing. I blame the successful completion of my classes in post secondary and high school thanks to Khan Academy. In retrospect, I could've done better by staying at home watching khan academy and using mooc and open source than going to most of my classes.
School does kinda resemble prison [1].
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#18Any idea if the source will be posted online on their github https://github.com/Khan ? Khanacademy is a non-profit but when it comes to licensing they are closer to for-profit business licenses in that don't allow commercial derivative like wikipedia does. I love what they do though.
To be fair they may be non-profit but they still need to be able to sustain themselves financially, which means they need to operate on a commercial basis.
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#19Anyone know if they're using React Native for this?
(I worked on the Android app.) No, we're not using React Native yet, but we're hoping to start using it in the near future.
Okay, I got to ask. Why do you need permissions for identity and call logs. I still installed it, because you guys are awesome, but those permissions don't seem necessary. Obviously, I could be (and probably am) wrong.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
(I worked on the Android app.) No, we're not using React Native yet, but we're hoping to start using it in the near future.
Okay, I got to ask. Why do you need permissions for identity and call logs. I still installed it, because you guys are awesome, but those permissions don't seem necessary. Obviously, I could be (and probably am) wrong.
Because Android permission model is junk and at least it's getting a rethink in M. Which will be relevant sometime in 2016 on part of Android device base but at least it's something. Honestly, if someone would be paranoid and wouldn't install apps based on those permissions, you'd be left with the stock phone.