[NTLK] Einstein, Android, new Hardware, old Hardware

[Paul Grothaus]

Thanks to Marisa, I now have Einstein running on my iPad. Very Cool. It's slow but just so neat to see it there. Kudos to Matthias, Paul, and everyone else who is involved in this project.

I have some questions.  Einstein appears to only be an iPhone app, that is it opens in a small iPhone window with the 2X option in the lower corner. If I set the iOSEinstein preferences to  MP2x00, it looks great. in 2X mode, it's a bit pixelated. If I use the other settings (iPhone 4, quarter iPad or iPad), the display looks awful. Very choppy, pixelated and hard to read in either the 1X or 2X mode. Is there a fix for this?

I was able to turn on the green backlight using the NewtTest function. Is there another, more direct way to do this?

I'm also getting the looping sound issues, particularly when opening the Extras drawer.

It's not a replacement for my real Newts but very very cool! Thanks.

On Dec 01, 2011, at 06:51 AM, Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at yahoo.com> wrote:

There is another way - I am distributing Einstein for iOS using ad-hoc profiles, and I'm willing to use 30 of my allotted device counts for list members. All you have to do is get a list of other developers who would be willing to donate some of their allotted devices to more users. This gets around the AppStore issue completely, but each developer only gets 100 devices for testing so the load had to be distributed...

Marisa

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On Dec 1, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Joseph Reilly <Reilly001os at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Gmail wrote:
> 
>> My understanding was that iOS developers were the ones that paid $100 per year and, assuming their programs are approved, they then offer those for sale via iTunes for whatever price they set. Though of course I have no idea what happens if there's no approval. Is my understanding mistaken?
>> 
>> If apple won't approve the program, there's always the jailbreak option. That's conceptually no different from rooting a Nook or Kindle 
>> 
> 
> Aside from getting in the store, or trying to get in the store really, you have to pay $100 just to do on device testing. Otherwise you can only test in the emulator on the computer.
> With android you check the box that say "unknown sources" (meaning allow installation of non-market apps from unknown sources) put the app on sd card, click a few confirmations
> and your new "what'cha ma thingy" app installs. Anyone with any out of the box, non-rooted android device could install Einstein right now, but on the iOS side only paid developers 
> or people with jail broken devices could install Einstein. Thats one of the reasons I'm now focused on trying to learn android instead of iOS despite the fact that android could use
> a lot of polish imho.
> 
> Joe Reilly
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