Android App for Tablets

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 29/05/2012 18:49:22:

What an awful thing an Android tablet is.

Wish I had never bought it, will probably never use it again.

regards David

I like my Android phone & use it all the time – rarely use it as a phone though. I can't stand the iPhone though…horses for courses I guess.

Regards,

Tony

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

Posted by JasonB on 29/05/2012 21:28:40:

David G as I said in my first post in this thread I did not work on my HTC Android phone (WildfireS)

Also just been trying to look at the latest ME on the ipad3, the viewer displays the mag as a two page spread but when I use the zoom button it only zooms to the page on the left and I can't get the right hand page up?

Also is this really an App? Seems to me it's just a shortcut from the desktop to the digital viewer

J

Jason –

When I go to the http:.//www.model-engineer.co.uk/app link (and the WWW is needed, otherwise you get the "page not found" bug mentioned by some), all I end up finding is a logon page that takes me to the regular web-based digital viewer (as you have observed), and there is no step involving downloading/installing an app as such. This is the same behaviour on my HTC Desire S phone and on a separate cheapo-but-usable Android tablet.

Regards,

Tony

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 29/05/2012 18:49:22:

I can't get it to work with an Andriod tablet either.

What an awful thing an Android tablet is.

Give me a PC anytime.

Funily enough; I've gone from iPhone apps written on Apple desktop computers to writing Android apps on Apple computers. Android devices win hands down, for a variety of technical reasons. (esthetics may be different) My iPhones/iPads/iPods are sitting doing nothing.

When I tried it on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet a while ago, I could not get to the bottom of a page, and, yes, it appears to just be javascript (or something close) running in your browser.

I just use my laptop for looking at the digital editions. At least I can see the whole page!

Another JohnS.

[Keith Wardill 1Participant @keithwardill1]

Still advertising unuseable Android App – any (useful) input on this yet?

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

I have asked.

No reply.

I have also asked several times for the Special advert on the left to have the pre-order bit removed.

No reply.

regards David

[Keith Wardill 1Participant @keithwardill1]

David,

Forget it – I appreciate your efforts, but this seems to be typical of your management. My subscription runs out in two or three months – At the moment the odds are I will not renew it – ME is not what it used to be.

[DuncParticipant @dunc]

Using an ASUS Transformer TF101 (the original). Cranked it up, opened its included browser, navigated to the site & it works flawlessly for viewing any issue from my MEW digital subscription.

No need to second guess, no fiddling. Thanks for this!

[FrankiethepillParticipant @frankiethepill]

Following on from this thread I too have just got an electronic subscription to MEW for my Andoid tablet – it's nice having the ability to look at the back numbers, but the 'app' or whatever it is supposed to be is appalling – very clumsy and difficult to navigate around the page, or even go from one page to the next. Then you have to navigate from one issue to another. It would help if it could come up more full screen, and get rid of the awful time-wasting prompt about tapping the screen to continue when entering a new issue. On a pc with a good sized screen it's just about usable (as it works slightly differently) but far from comfortable to use. On a small screen sized pc it is awful.

Mr Editor- this is not fit for purpose.

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