Hello. How about latest build for Android version? Why only iOS? Now the Android is more stable and functional than iOS but you don’t developing tor it. What’s the problem?
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We would love to, it is a matter of time and resources.
We are currently putting a large effort into porting our OpenGL based display code on Mac over to Metal display code. This is a massive project and we figure one of the best ways to test that the metal code actually works is to run the exact same code we have in Mac Rhino on iOS where we can get a lot of people to test and hopefully report bugs.
We don’t have anyone available to work on an Android version at the moment. Hopefully that will change in the future.
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I know many many designers working on Rhino desktop and now waiting for android version for viewing on mobile devices. Believe me, android version will be more popular and testers will be many many more than iOS version.
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It isn’t about the platform; it is about the technology. At this point in time we are using iOS to test a huge portion of new code that is going into Mac Rhino. This technology is specific to Apple products and does not exist on other platforms.
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Great app for view Rhino files on Android device.
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Are we in the future yet?
Is there anything we, the users, could do to help on anything at all to make iRhino Android a thing?
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Not yet :))
We’ll definitely share details here when we make any progress on that front.
Like Steve said it’s a technology challenge. But keeping the pressure on helps us developers gauge interest in the Android version when we’re making plans for future projects
I think I would be paying attention to stats like these:
According to the latest stats from Statcounter, the global market share looks like this:
- Android: 72.17%
- iOS: 27.16%
But in the U.S., that market share looks like this:
- iOS: 55.86%
- Android: 43.82%
Have to be careful with these stats. There is more to them than just what appears above. But it is a starting place. An interesting factoid is that more educated people tend to use iOS than Android. PS, I am not an iOS guy, I despise Apple and their products.
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I this factoid US based only, right? Because in my personal experience here in Brazil, managers and others higher workers tend to be iOS users, but engineers, designers(not art designers, they love apple) and digital modelers in general use Android, and, strangely enough, are in majority Motorola clients.
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Reason nr1: I would spend any money for an android version just name the price
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