Interesting, it looks like you made this for the iPhone and iPad and got very little love (no comments and only a few points) when posting as Show HNs.
For iPad, there’s OmniGraffle[1]. Omni has been making software for Apple platforms and NeXTSTEP for several decades and is loved by many for its quality software and Apple-only approach. That’s not to say there isn’t a market for freehand diagramming software for iOS beyond OmniGraffle, but it has a big head-start (in maturity as well as mindshare).
I don’t use an Android tablet, so I don’t know if anything similar is already offered on Google Play (Omni doesn’t make products for Android). If there wasn’t such a product yet, that would explain why Android users are enthusiastic about this product.
I downloaded the app with a bit of bit regurd but I was really really please with how it worked on my nexus 4! can't wait to try it on the nexus 7! Well done!
I can't decide whether the arm obscuring most of the screen most of the time, lending the video a folksy charm, should have been eliminated through more professional camera positioning. Another option would be to mount the tablet on a vertical surface at eye level, place the camera at eye level, and then the user's arm will naturally come from below. As it is the camera appears to be mounted on your elbow.
agree.. the video recording is very naive. This was recorded with galaxy S4. I am inexperienced in video recording. I still figuring out either this is camera issue or lighting issue.
And there also a orientation (of tablet) issue that you have pointed out.
I sometimes managed to draw shapes that were certainly not what I wanted. I mean, they were recognized and redrawn. "Random" rectangles, ovals with corssing lines, ...
And sometimes shape was not recognized even though I think it was nice. But this isn't as much ofa problem as drawing weird shapes. Perhaps if I could somehow select shapes that I want to use?
I have no need for the app but will consider purchasing because your parenthetical comment made me laugh and I appreciate that kind of honesty from a dev.
I like this. One great feature would be to automatically save to a Dropbox/Google Drive/.. location. Im pretty sure the Dropbox api's support that, don't know about the GDrive apis.
Is there a way to make it universally available? I'm thinking of a web app mostly. I don't have an Android phone at hand right now, but this looks like something that should have existed ages ago, congrats.
To make it more clear: a web version would make it instantly available to every modern mobile device holder (let it be Android, iOS, Windows Phone), plus anyone on the desktop with a tablet. I might even prefer using it with a mouse, just drawing things instead of selecting shapes from a list.
I know you can't see upvotes here, so I hope it's not useless to post a 'me too' type post. Just to say I'd definitely pay for this on a desktop, I doubt I can draw more accurately with my finger than a mouse and your algorithm isn't bad at all - I have no doubt it'd translate brilliantly.
Actually I think you might be wrong about that, the shape recognition and the way you draw a simple line between two objects to join them would be useful even with a mouse.
This is something I'd pay £20-30 ($30-$50) if it was available on a PC, hell combined with a digital whiteboard (and with a couple more features) and you'd have something most developers would give a left arm for!.
In play store, I selected all countries. I am not sure, why this is not available in your country. If Google allows me to do that, I will surely do that.
EDIT: I cant see your country in list provided by play store. That means Google does not allow. I will be publishing the same app to Amazon app store. Check if you can download apps from Amazon app store
What do you make of that?