E ink support
Support or improvement for e ink note taking devices with active stylus, (sony epd, onyx boox, bouye likebook), this will require the app to not redraw the whole screen as an LCD display but as an EPD (and allowing some ghosting to reduce stylus latency, as do the native notes apps on these devices)
Also a grayscale UI, with maybe showing color names when hovering the pen over the available colors.
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Jonatan commented
This is a MUST for any e-ink device. The Onyx Note Air 1 it's an amazing device, I love Squid ... I used a lot in my galaxy note for long years. Now I want to transfer all that data to my Onyx Boox, but it's unusable ... such a shame. Squid is the best and low latency app , in any android device.
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Paul commented
This is even trivial to implement (for Onyx) - PNGNote is a great example: https://github.com/karino2/PngNote
It would be another huge differentiator for Squid right in line with the whole "low latency" theme.
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Xabier Bayón commented
In onyx boox note air is unusable because of lag, It would be greatley appreciated to be able to work with this app.
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Steve Hayes commented
Absolutely Love Squid on my Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, It works BRILLIANTLY!
IMHO it is Too Cheap? at £6.00 a year or so, I would pay more.I Have a Boox Note Air 2 and hoped Squid would work but the lag makes it unusable.
I understand Eink is a different technology and understand the limitations but if you could get it to work I would pay, I think you would do well in that emerging market..... PLEASE! and good luck guys, great product. -
Lenni commented
Onyx (the manufacturer of Boox) has an SDK for their devices: https://github.com/onyx-intl/booxsdk
They even provided an example on how to use it: https://github.com/onyx-intl/OnyxAndroidDemoHow it currently is on EPDs is unusable
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Caleb Barrett commented
I'm behind this 100%. Working with the default likebook app is fine and all, but I'd rather have a choice.
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Noah commented
I also have a Likebook Mimas and would love to see this feature implemented. Squid developers, please don't forget about us E-Ink users!
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Andrew Whaley commented
Yes, please. The native notetaking apps work with no lag but lack the features of established notetakers like Squid. Seems to be a huge growth area for eInk devices, so the first regular Android app that caters for these will do well.
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Kevin Bhasi commented
Yep. I use Squid on my Likebook Mimas as the built-in notes app has a bug that can result in lost pages, at least on firmware version 1.0.2 (current version as of posting this).
I'm hoping there would also be an option within the app to change the top bar from blue/white to white/black.
I know that low latency ink on e-readers running on Rockchip RK3368 is possible, as the built-in Likebook notes app does show that. I even opened Floating Apps (another app that provides pseudo multitasking) on top of the note editor, and watched as my pen strokes went right through the window, so it must be triggering some kind of ink mode on the EPD controller that allows the user to write with the active pen (which uses Wacom EMR, like with Samsung S Pen), and after a few seconds, the contents of that pen ink buffer (I don't think that's the correct term for it) would then be dropped onto the app below.
However, with Squid, some additional code may be required in order to flush the contents of that ink buffer before panning and/or zooming, as well as selecting, adding text, and/or drawing shapes.
What I can also mention is that the KOReader dev team was at least able to figure out how to do the screen refreshes, though.