Hello, might be a strange question, as Kindle Fire is electronic ebook reader itself
But as we all know, we play it, we root it, we have this beauty called ICS CM9 and Kernel 3 with master Hashcode.
But now I have strange problem. I DO NO KNOW a good ebook reader app on the market. I'm missing the reading experience which I got from original Kindle Fire rom/software.
I tried Mantano reader - UI is just horrible. The text is stoo small to read(UI), it works slow and so on..
I tried google books - same crap, cannot use dictionary, what about highliting??.
I tried Kindle App - which I think is the best for reading books, and I found out that it is not scaled properly.
Any solution for scaling problem?
Or maybe some suggestions of nice ebook apps or advices how and what you guys use/do ?
Thank you very much
Check out Cool Reader and Moon Reader.
cluendo said:
Hello, might be a strange question, as Kindle Fire is electronic ebook reader itself
But as we all know, we play it, we root it, we have this beauty called ICS CM9 and Kernel 3 with master Hashcode.
But now I have strange problem. I DO NO KNOW a good ebook reader app on the market. I'm missing the reading experience which I got from original Kindle Fire rom/software.
I tried Mantano reader - UI is just horrible. The text is stoo small to read(UI), it works slow and so on..
I tried google books - same crap, cannot use dictionary, what about highliting??.
I tried Kindle App - which I think is the best for reading books, and I found out that it is not scaled properly.
Any solution for scaling problem?
Or maybe some suggestions of nice ebook apps or advices how and what you guys use/do ?
Thank you very much
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Try fbreader. People say it's good.
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Thank you guys for suggestions, I will try it!
But do all of you have scaling problems with Kindle App ? Because it fells like it is not a full screen.
Also I tried Aldiko ( I heard it is the best ). For me it i the worst. The most laggy app I've ever experienced. Unusable on Kindle unfortunately
Don't think I'm picky or smth. I just hate an idea that there are no simple apps as ebook reader..or at least it's hard to find.
cluendo said:
Thank you guys for suggestions, I will try it!
But do all of you have scaling problems with Kindle App ? Because it fells like it is not a full screen.
Also I tried Aldiko ( I heard it is the best ). For me it i the worst. The most laggy app I've ever experienced. Unusable on Kindle unfortunately
Don't think I'm picky or smth. I just hate an idea that there are no simple apps as ebook reader..or at least it's hard to find.
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I completely agree with you. I almost went back to the stock ROM. I now just use Mantano reader because it's the smoothest.
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veeman said:
I now just use Mantano reader because it's the smoothest.
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Thanks for the tip, handles pdfs very well.
Aldiko is great, but for some strange reason it identifices a 7" tablet as our KF as a phone instead of a tablet. If they could get that fixed they would be kings of tablets again as well as they are of phones.
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Thanks for the tip, handles pdfs very well.
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My only gripe is that the UI text is a bit small.
I use Aldiko and have never had any issues with it like those that are being described here. Its very smooth on my device. Mine is overclocked, though.
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I use Aldiko and have never had any issues with it like those that are being described here. Its very smooth on my device. Mine is overclocked, though.
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OP is on CM9 with the 3.0 kernel so that means he is (99% sure) overclocked too.
Ironically, I like the B&N Nook reader the best - IMHO the best legibility of fonts, spacing and scaling controls, and better/more intuitive/easier to use highlighting and commenting tools.
Have you tried Kobo Reader? It's my favorite!
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gandoe , I never actually see the NOOK app! I did a research and found that it is somehow restricted in my country - I can't download it via market.
Can someone upload this app please! link here http://www.appbrain.com/app/nook-for-android-by-b-n/bn.ereader
Here is what I found:
*Kobo app is working pretty flawless and smooth ! Best app so far I've used ( I dunno about the NOOK one though..) big thanx to milanche
*Kindle App is smooth as well, but it just doesn't completely full screen on my Kindle Fire.
*Aldiko for me is annoyingly laggy app, especially when zooming, scrolling pages etc..
*Mantano Reader is nice a well BUT UI text is way too small and it just doesn't feel nice as an app ( just my opinion)
So can someone upload NOOK for android apk ?
THANK YOU!
P.S. Yes I tried to use Market Enabler to fake my country, but it do not allow me to install.....
You have the app brain link there. Why can't you download it?
Edit :
Here is a link for download.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294967&page=2
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I don't know, even using AppBrain app I cannot download. It doesn't allow me.
But I found it here http://www.mediafire.com/?wr4w53d735rb0w4
Its an older version but I managed to update it via market once installed
It is pretty the best app now, even comparing with Kobo.
Aldiko is pretty good
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I use Aldiko and I love it. I have my background as tan and letters as brown and its quite easy on the eyes. Night setting is just the reverse brown/tan.
People talking about font being too small on some readers, isn't that customizable? I've only tried aldiko and kindle, an I was very unsatisfied with the kindle app. Alot of my book covers in the row were very small while some big and I couldn't find a fix so that killed it for me.
I do wish tho that the bookshelf in aldiko was resizeable. I like big book thumbnails.
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I use Aldiko and I love it. I have my background as tan and letters as brown and its quite easy on the eyes. Night setting is just the reverse brown/tan.
People talking about font being too small on some readers, isn't that customizable? I've only tried aldiko and kindle, an I was very unsatisfied with the kindle app. Alot of my book covers in the row were very small while some big and I couldn't find a fix so that killed it for me.
I do wish tho that the bookshelf in aldiko was resizeable. I like big book thumbnails.
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I agree, but I use Aldiko only for free books, because I have 2 kindle devices so I need to use the stock kindle app to sync everything. But Aldiko does have small book covers and very basic page turn animation, but it still is pretty good
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I don't know why but Aldiko when you turn pages of the ebook it delays for 1 sec or so. I particularly don't like that, and the book shelf has small thumbnails as mentioned. I'm playing with Kobo and NOOK apps now. I think NOOK is the best right now. Big thumbnails of books, quickly loads the books, nice animations on turning pages, and it's smooth when you turn pages. Easy highlight, notes selection tools. And you can adjust everything from font size to margins to font itself. So it's pretty cool app now for reading I think.
Kobo would be great as well, as I like the design of the app more. But it loads books slowly somehow. Even between chapter it takes some time to load book up. Selecting text and highliting is annoying though...
So I stick with NOOK now and probably Kindle app sometimes.
Aldiko would be great if they would fix small thumbnails of bookshelf, and if they would remove that scrolling the page delays...
Cool Reader is by far the best non stock kindle reading app. Because I was on stock for months before I switched to ICS, my entire library was MOBI format. SO I didn't have to convert them to another format. Cool Reader also has a ton of features, a lot more than the stock reader app or any of the other ones.
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I'm kind of tired of trying app after app to just be unhappy with all of them. I'm hoping you guys can recommend me a good epub reader.
I want something with a straight-forward interface. I don't need shelves and stores and all that. I need something that'll let me browse my books via a file explorer (and lets me set the default directory for browsing), and display them neatly, and render them fast with little battery usage.
I've tried Aldiko. I know it's popular, but it runs like crap TBH. Scrolling through my shelf is slow and annoying. And I'd rather just browse my own folder layout than a fancy shelf. I tried a few other random ones I found on Google, but they were mostly slow or didn't do what I needed.
FBreader perhaps, from my default folder it's just two clicks away.
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you can try the epubReader , look for it in android markrt....
I'd suggest either aldiko or moon reader. Both are beautiful, highly functional apps, though moon seems a little more customizeable currently.
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FBreader perhaps, from my default folder it's just two clicks away.
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+1 for FBReader, simple to use and quick and uses a file explorer with a configureable default folder
anzoshi said:
+1 for FBReader, simple to use and quick and uses a file explorer with a configureable default folder
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I will also suggest FBreader.
+1 for FBreader, have tried Aldiko, Moon Reader, but come back to FBreader
FBReader +1
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i recommend aldiko using it for almost a year now, but when it comes to minimalistic interface without all this shiny stuff then FBreader - it is a highly customizable fast ebook reader.
so in your case FBreader +1
also just found cool reader quite interesting
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I'd suggest either aldiko or moon reader. Both are beautiful, highly functional apps, though moon seems a little more customizeable currently.
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+1 for moon reader. Used Aldiko before that and found it buggy. Used fbreader after moon reader but returned because of some features. No FCs on moon reader for me.
mood reader ftw
FBReader has really worked well for my needs...
Tried most of the more popular reader apps on the market, found FBReader to be the best for my purposes. It's highly customizable with minimalistic design. Other readers have far too many useless features with not enough customizability, like 10 different page turn animations but no way to change line spacing (moonreader iirc).
Has anybody used Aldiko Pro? I want to buy one, but I want to know if it works with transformer. I have read Aldiko is not compatible with HC
It sort of work if you don't try to change orientation. If you go from landscape to portrait or vice versa...it FC.
Try Moon+ Reader, Agree that Aldiko FC books on change orentation. Moon+ works well for me with as yet no FC + more features than Aldiko.
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Try Moon+ Reader, Agree that Aldiko FC books on change orentation. Moon+ works well for me with as yet no FC + more features than Aldiko.
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+1 on Moon+ Reader. I use this on my TF and EVO with no problems.
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Has anybody used Aldiko Pro? I want to buy one, but I want to know if it works with transformer. I have read Aldiko is not compatible with HC
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Aldiko Premium working great for me...no FC
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Same here, no FC
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Same here, no FC
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So it does NOT FC if you open a book and then rotate the screen?
I have the free version and it FC every time you rotate the screen. I'd drop a couple bucks on the pro version if it doesn't do this.
Does moon reader hide the navigation buttons like kindle app does?
I hate seeing the home and back and menu button while reading especially in the dark.
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I had the force close problem as well, but you can go into settings and lock it into portrait mode. I can't imagine reading in landscape mode, anyway. Problems only arise when I launch Aldiko with the dock attached (dock forced landscape + Aldiko forced portrait = Android force close), but when I'm reading, I'm holding it portrait without the dock.
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So it does NOT FC if you open a book and then rotate the screen?
I have the free version and it FC every time you rotate the screen. I'd drop a couple bucks on the pro version if it doesn't do this.
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Nope, not yet anyways.
Canadoc said:
Does moon reader hide the navigation buttons like kindle app does?
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No but its hardly noticeable I read with 1% brightness in night mode and never see the buttons lit up.
Also I had FC with Aldiko Pro on rotate.
If I import the books on my microSD card, can I then delete the original files? It seems to make a copy of everything, but I'm not sure.
Why would anybody pay for a bookreader in the first place with all the great free options? Not trolling, just curious what the reasons are
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Why would anybody pay for a bookreader in the first place with all the great free options? Not trolling, just curious what the reasons are
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Because we like to support people who make products we love?
you guys should check out coolreader, its only 1 dollar and has many options and support lots of formats. i compared aldiko, fbreader and a few others but i think coolreader is better. i just discovered the free reader that comes with the transformer is pretty good too. i really like the dual page display.
Latest Aldiko update removes the crash-on-rotate bug. This was the only item that kept me from giving them a few small coins for their product. Now running Aldiko Premium and enjoying it
Long time user of Aldiko and love it on my TF.
No force close issues but I prefer portrait mode so have it locked into that orientation. No FC issues.
Lag in Aldiko?
How is the lag under Honeycomb? I love Aldiko for all its features, but on my HTC Hero and Desire HD it has ridiculous amounts of lag when updating the book cover thumbnails when you are in any of the views.
On those devices, you scroll down just a few books and you see a default Aldiko cover which after a second or so updates to show the actual cover. If you scroll down more, again the same lag. But what is really annoying is that if you scroll up again to the books you just viewed, which had already shown the cover, they have reset to show the default Aldiko, so you have to wait again for it to update. Just looks so tacky, when the rest of the software is so polished.
I really don't understand why they can't update the thumbnails more smoothly.
Is it the same behaviour on the Transformer or other Honeycomb devices?
That is the only thing really stopping be from gettin Honeycomb over the HTC Flyer, because the Flyers Reader UI like on all their latest phones is simply beautiful, I think it uses OpenGL so it so fluid.
Thanks for any advice!
I'm looking for a ebook reader as well, and I was primarily looking at kindle and nook. I like both for a few reasons ...
nook seems to have a much better selection of magazines ... car and driver for example, is 99c per month with nook, but unavailable on kindle.
I like kindle because its ebooks are often cheaper (kindle version of the same book is quite often 50% cheaper than nook) and it also syncs between different devices. I read from my Desire and my Transformer so this feature is a must.
What other ebook readers do you guys recommend?
I looked into moon+ reader but it looks iffy when it requires access to a lot of personal info ... why does an ebook reader need to know about state of my phone for example???
FBReader also looks good.
What is your absolute favorite application/game? The one you just cannot live without. I am excepting to see a lot of mainstream apps being called out, so to go along with that question, what is your favorite non mainstream app/game?
My fave mainstream app would have to be Facebook (lots of friends from england)
My fave non mainstream app would have to be SwingGame
I am hoping that we will all be able to find some apps that we have never heard of before through this thread.
Netflix and before that came I would say YouTube app impressed me.
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Reddita. I don't think I've ever wasted more time in my life than the period of AR (after reddita).
gReader. Looks, feels and works great
Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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I agree. Pulse is really quite amazing. The UI is beautiful
Pulse. Great app.
I would have to agree with Pulse as well. Was recently introduced to this app and absolutely love it.
+ on pulse. Save sooo much time with it.
Multipicture live wallpaper.
1- because I was going out of my mind when honeycomb cropped my pics
2- runs great with adw ex
Feedly :
Love it the away it allows me the add the feeds, read the same feeds on my phone and on the tablet , and also on my desktop (Firefox addon).
Beautiful interface on both android and desktop. Another nice feature is the suggestions of other feeds that I would like. Stopped using pulse once I found Feedly
The browser is my fav. Its the one app I couldn't live without.
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I'm greedy, I have two ~ Evernote & Dropbox
Both serve me exceptionally well on all my devices; allowing data to be shared simple and easy.
Evernote: Totally useful - not a timewaster - your information available transparently on every device you own, simply awesome.
It used to be Pulse, until I found News360.
Honestly though, the browser gets 99% of the usage on my tablet. I use the default browser cause I;m a chrome user on PC and having synced bookmarks is a necessity. Opera Mobile would be great if I could add more than 9 speed dial buttons
If I may ask my own question about "Your absolute favorite app"
What is your favorite sports app?
I'm trying to find a good one for tablet. All the amazing sports apps, Score Mobile, Fox etc suck for the tablet... they wont even go into landscape mode!
For those who use Pulse, try out Taptu, its very similar but somehow cleaner and faster in my opinion. (news 360 is awesome though.)
But my favorite app is... either Dropbox or Youtube
I love Pulse.
Can't help but think that if you could hide the window which slides out from the left when you click a story by sliding it back, instead of hitting the back button it would be so much better.
Going to d/l Taptu & check it out as well. Cheers for the suggestion
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Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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Have you tried d9 reader? XDA creation, very good.
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For all of the folks that like Pulse - Check out News Republic - it's a really nice (and free) news app (I like it better than Pulse)!
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Besides the browser and Facebook (Friendcaster for tablets) the app I keep coming back and spending lots of time in is Age of Zombies. The Survival mode is addicting. It's the only game I've found on the Android Market that I keep coming back to play. Everything else I get bored of after 5-10 minutes.
Still can't replace console gaming though.
Have to agree with Pulse. Its just so clean and epic...and epic.
Here is a solution many people are desperately in need of for the Kindle Fire. This is a side loaded .APK that DOES NOT require Rooting! The ever changing lock screen/wallpaper is obviously annoying to the vest majority of us. I have found two apps that can take care of this. They appear to be very similar but one is in (a) Google Play[Market] and the (b) other is freely available on the web with no login necessary and explains to the novice how to install in simple terms and pictures.
a) Wallpaper Change Kindle Fire by DPAPPS - (Google Play / Android Market)
and
b) My Kindle Wallpaper - to find it, Google --> "kindlecooltricks wordpress" and it was the 3rd in the list as of this posting. You should be able to easily find it.
Now to get everyone started, here are 20 desktop picture. What can you make and share ?
Here are a few more....
Enjoy and let me know what you think of the pictures and programs; as well as how it is working for you?
Thanks for the app suggestion. Happen to have pics zipped?
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Here all the wallpapers ZIPed up.
Here is the link to (a) & (b), not sure if it will post....
(a) https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS53YWxsLmNoYW5nZXIiXQ..
(b) http://kindlecooltricks.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/change-kindle-fire-wallpaper-without-rooting/
Thanks. I'm using My Kindle Wallpaper (the second one linked) and it's getting the job done.
thank you for this! i was getting so tired of the wallpapers that come on the kindle. Now everyday I just choose which one I want, and they are the perfect size!
None of them used my selected picture on 6.3,
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Used the method you suggested and it worked. I kinda have a question, for a split second when I wake my KF, the default wallpapers that are built into the device show up before the ones I've saved for the DPAPP application. Is there a way that I can completely shut off the default ones?
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thanks been looking into this for so long will have to put on my mother inlaws kindle tonight
sweet switching!
Great app! Someone earlier had tried to change my wallpaper to some crazy pic using settings, except this app automatically switched it back to my selection--I never even noticed the change; this is nice, people can't prank my paper! Unless they used this app/kinda obscure anywho
VERY appreciative, thanks for the post
dpapps didnt work for me at first as the pictures were all too big even at 1024x600 resolution.
i solved the issue by removing go launcher ex and then it worked
i then reinstalled go launcher and it still works great
apparently go launcher ex changed the default wallpaper settings on both sides of my kindle, the carousel and go launcher. hopefully this helps anyone experiencing the same issue
My Kindle Wallpaper is working great! My eyes thank you!
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Amazon's update 6.3.1 for non rooted KFs fixes the problem many have had with selecting a specific wallpaper....
awesome ! Thanks so much.. Fantastic apps for changing wallpapers...:good::good::good::good::good:
Awesome note making app for a very less price
Just sharing Handy Note...
Not my app, but an extraordinary one
Jamal Ahmed said:
Awesome note making app for a very less price
Just sharing Handy Note...
Not my app, but an extraordinary one
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I bought the app some time before, there is NO settings in this app, palm recognition doesnt work so good, Spen not so sensitive as on other and original Spen apps....
but the app is very nice hopefully when crerator of the app is reading this and will react. I will come later on again to this app when there will be upgrade.
I tried alllll of the Spen apps, still the original Snote one is the best one - although i really like in Papyrus ability to choose paper format (A4, infinity, letter.....) very handy when you want to print out your sketch, but in papyrus miss adding pictures.
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I bought the app some time before, there is NO settings in this app, palm recognition doesnt work so good, Spen not so sensitive as on other and original Spen apps....
but the app is very nice hopefully when crerator of the app is reading this and will react. I will come later on again to this app when there will be upgrade.
I tried alllll of the Spen apps, still the original Snote one is the best one - although i really like in Papyrus ability to choose paper format (A4, infinity, letter.....) very handy when you want to print out your sketch, but in papyrus miss adding pictures.
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Hey just so you know Memo by Nathan Garside is really similar to papyrus but has ability to add pictures.
Only grudge I have towards it is that at a somewhat low DPI the rules are far too close... but that's what we have PA for I guess
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Hey just so you know Memo by Nathan Garside is really similar to papyrus but has ability to add pictures.
Only grudge I have towards it is that at a somewhat low DPI the rules are far too close... but that's what we have PA for I guess
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I know MEMO - also nice, hopefully it will improove....but from all apps i have tried, everyone gave me a FC in some case but Snote/Smemo - never FC!!! Thats the reason to stay on stock rom for someone who wants to use NOTEs Spen features. Papyrus looks to be kinda strong, this never FCd for me, but ability to add pictures is really needed! Imagine, i also sometimes make a notes, add picture and want to print out as A4 on normal printer -- all other apps can do print, export to PDF etc... but it is horrible scaled up, i know you can lower your font and pics, but it is for me more natural to work direct on format A4 and know how it will look like when i print out or export to PDF.
I moved this week from stock to other custom JB rom, just to change for some time, so will test again some Spen market apps. But when official JB will roll out, will definitelly go back to stock based roms.
But this HandyNote need some small tweaks, and looks to be good replacement...
You should try 'float note ' it's. On this thread . One of us made it and its great. It opens up and floats over the scren. You can move it ,resize. It's basic ,but great . The Guy's done a great job . Its not in the shop ,just on this thread.
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Tried them all, Samsung got there memo suite pretty much spot on, and is integrated thought the ROM, shame you can't use the complete suite on cm based roms, guess this is where memo apps like these are required.
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S memo and s note are the apps i use for my regular purpose and even for drawing. No other app in the whole play store match it.
I am using the stock roms just because of these apps.
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I'm sure you guys have heard, but there are Paranoid Android betas with S Pen gesture integration now