I'm looking for a photo viewer app for my Asus Memo Pad 10 which can quickly browse photo folders on a NAS/Windows network share. I've tried Photoframe and ES File Explorer but both are quite slow to scroll through slides over the network. Is there an app which is optimised for network access?? (and works well on a 10" tablet)
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I have just brought a Motorola Xoom and trying to figure out the best way to browse photo's based on a network share.
The closest I have got is Twonky however client won't install on the Xoom and can't browse as such. More select and download for local viewing.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
Give ES File Explorer a shot - it has both thumbnail preview and gallery browsing for pictures in its LAN view. Little slower than I'd like, but it's a nice all-in-one solution.
Floating image is also nice.
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Floating image does not work of a local network device. SMB, UPNP etc.
ES file explorer is great however missing a few features
Full screen
Swipe picture changing (Not arrows)
Image zooming
Speed - Not quite fast enough.10+ secs between pics.
I'm looking for an app that will let me browse pictures on a network share
From what I can tell general file explorer's don't let you swipe through pictures in full screen
I know about UPnP apps, but they seem to be a bit slow so would prefer to bypass UPnP
Thanks in advance
I use ES File explorer to browse through the photos stored on my ubuntu server either from my local network or remotely. Works great and photos show up as if they were on TF.
Hi,
I'm considering this tablet as a gift for my gf.
I'd just need to know if there's an app/mod (I'd prefer not to root, but if it's necessary, I'm no-problem) able to read music from a PC in home, an Ubuntu machine with Samba shares.
Also, which app would you suggest in order to see, manage and perhaps lightly edit picasa pictures and albums ?
Thank you very much !!
Fabio
I use ESFile Explorer, just add your lan folder/share in ES, and thats it, you can stream/copy any file from there.
I use it to stream movies from my windows xp download machine
ES File Explorer on android market
GoogleMusic. I use it on all of my Android products and I love it. Added advantage of being able to sign in to ANY computer and have your music as well.
With a rooted Transformer you can use CIFS to basically make any network share look like a local file folder on the tablet itself, as long as you're on the same network as the computer sharing the media.
Hi!
I play music, so i decided to scan all of my sheet music on my infinity. I need to find an app to scroll on a pdf using the "scroll wheel" on an external mouse. The scroll wheel works on browsers/settings, but i cannot find a pdf app that supports it. Any ideas/ app suggestions?
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Wow - I can't believe that I never realized that you couldn't do this with 99% of the PDF viewers!
I did find one app that it does work in, but it's not a dedicated PDF viewer - it's Polaris Office, which also allows for viewing and editing of MS Office documents. Unfortunately, it's not free (at least I don't think it is - I already had it installed, so I'm not sure)...
So far, that's the only app that I can find that allows you to scroll using the mouse wheel in PDF documents! Very strange, especially since, as you've stated, scrolling with the wheel works everywhere else...
I did download and try a bunch of other PDF viewers and haven't been able to find a PDF-specific app that it works in - I have no idea why that is...
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okay thanks! i will try that app and confirm that it works.
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Ebookdroid is excellent. Just change the mouse scroll settings from %5 to say %20 or whatever you see fit.
Regards.
The main reason I bought the Tab2 (7.0") is to view FAA instrument approach charts. Since there are over 15,000 of them (reissued every 28 days) for the USA, I've created HTML pages organized in a tree structure (by state and then airport) to allow quick access to whichever one I want. I have all of this (PDF and HTML files) on a microSD card, and I have installed Adobe Reader for Android.
When I use this on a "regular" Android tablet (Acer Iconia A500, Nook Color/Tablet, Motorola Droid), it works just fine: Using the stock Android browser, I navigate the HTML pages to the one for the airport, and then click on a link to display the PDF. Adobe Reader fires up and displays the PDF just fine.
However, on the Tab2 (running stock 4.1.1), the stock Android browser attempts to fire up the Kindle reader (even though I've selected the Adobe Reader as the default), which then crashes. Note that I can navigate to these PDFs via a file explorer, click on the file name, and the PDF displays just fine.
OK, so I tried a few other Android browsers:
Opera (not Mini): This piece of junk (from other experiences as well) can't even display a URL of the form "file:///storage/extSdCard/.../index.html" on the SD card. Idiots.
Dolphin: A bit better; you can enter the "file:///..." URL and it displays the HTML file fine and navigates to other local HTML pages, but when you click on a URL that references a local PDF, that's an "unsupported" URL. Morons.
Firefox: I'm not fond of the UI, but that's a nit. Everything else, including displaying PDFs from HTML links, works just fine.
So, Firefox wins the race, because one contestant threw up on the track before the first turn, and the other just before the second turn.
Wow, that's a long way to my question: Does anyone know of a way to get the default (Android) browser on the Tab2 to not try to fire up the Kindle app when linking to a PDF URL? I've rooted, if that makes it easier.