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As far as I remember however, the Sony app is raster.
There is an app called Infinite Design that is vector based. The developer is always pushing out updates and if vectors aren't your thing he has another app called Infinite Painter.
Both are free to try for a month if I remember correctly and have 25% off the purchase price. I think they are the closest I've gotten to Illustrator and Photoshop. Even the actual Adobe offerings on the Play Store are crippled versions.
If anyone has any better suggestions I'd love to hear too.
My wife uses hers heavily for vector art drawing in Infinite Design. She doesn't use the handwriting, but uses the app's finger/palm rejection. She's had to add a fingerless glove to her kit to supliment the rejection to allow her to keep palm on screen while drawing with the pen, as well as a sleeve to the pen to fatten it up. Otherwise its excellent value for money, great on battery life, responsive and consistent. Apps crash rarely and it just got the Nougat update.
Photos of pen mod and glove: http://imgur.com/a/F6oiG
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I was using Adobe Draw, which is cool, but recently tried out Infinite Design, which is also a vector drawing app that actually has a TONNE more features than Adobe Draw. Very cool stuff.
Infinite Design is my favorite drawing app
Free Version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree&hl=en
Paid Version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.id&hl=en
Dont make false claims. Infinite Painter does support layers better than other products.
Price is relative, for the cost of a cappuccino for me it was well worth supporting the ppl behind Infinite Painter.
OP didn't ask for a FREE app, just the best app. S/he can try it for free and make a decision.
Im a UX UI Desinger, I design software and spent a good chunk of my day on drawing apps. In the past I was a heavy user of photoshop and as such I'm very familiar with drawing app features. I've tested BOTH personally and I believe Infinite Painter has the edge. PS. Personal opinion is always subjective soo... (This is to say my opinion is well worth as it's in my field of knowledge: If you are lost as see, who do you ask help to? An internet sailor that has read about boats or a person that actually drive boats for a living? )
It supports our Note 9 Pen pressure and tilt. So with the pen if pressing harder or if holding the pen at an angle will emulate like drawing with a pencil pressing harded or pencil at an angle.
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Sketchbook isnt a bad app at all, just inferior. If you want FREE go for Sketch. If you want BEST as in objectively better features get and PAY Infinite Painter.
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u/8183313899843 it also depends if you want to draw as in pixel like pencil and paper and brushes or if you want to use vector drawings. If you don't know what's the latter then go for pixel drawing apps. If you know what's vector drawing like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape then you could try https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree however I don't have too much experience with the vector one.
Check this out, not me: https://youtu.be/SUhZUiYcuWc
Just checked for you. Infinite Design has the Pen Tool that works just like Illustrator https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree&hl=en_US
I don't know about best, but here are a few I have tried recently. I ended up settling on Infinite Design.
You can try these apps - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tophatch.concepts
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ne.ibis.ibispaintx.app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.celsys.clipstudiopaint.googleplay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.draw
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree
com.bytescaffold.limitlesspaint
I have stopped using Google Keep for any drawings because of this problem. I tried many apps and found that Infinite Design was the best. It is free, required no unusual permissions, and allows export to SVG.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brakefield.idfree
You could try Infinite Design and the DEV also has a Painter program.
Another 6P owner here and I agree with your assessment, though I'd like to add that the Samsung multi-window implementation still out performs Google's.
On the topic of replicating the S-Pen, it's not possible. However, I've been able to get a small portion of that feel back with a two-in-one stylus / ink pen that I keep in my pocket and apps like these:
If anyone else has app suggestions to replicate (and hopefully surpass) Samsung's S-Pen-focused offerings, let me know because I'm always on the lookout.