What is Reddit's opinion of Markers?

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I personally use Markers. I also "pin" the app, so that my toddler isn't able to randomly click out of the app. After selecting brush and color, you can click to full screen the drawing area. It's fun for him, since it has multi-touch sensitivity.

Try this. It was made by a Google employee around the time the Nexus 7 2012 came out and it has the same "pressure sensitive" drawing. Works the same way by detecting how much of your finger is touching the screen. It hasn't been updated since 2014 but still seems to work fine.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers

I wouldn't be surprised if this had inspired the Easter egg.

1. Photoshop
2. Adobe Illustrator
3. Corel Painter
4. zbrush
5. Autodesk Maya
6. Autodesk Mudbox (old logo)
7. Microsoft OneNote
8. CorelDraw
9. Flipaclip
10. Autodesk Sketchbook
11. MediBang
12. Zen Brush 2
13. ArtRage
14. Markers
15. Paint Tool Sai
16. Manga Studio Ex
17. Clip Studio Paint
18. also CorelDraw
19. Fire Alpaca
20. Gimp
21. Blender
22. Krita

Use this app to show the ghost swipes. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers

Also, use a multi touch tester, hold one finger still and move the other one around it.

Update: everyone here was right and this has nothing to do with the SIM. Testing tonight simply putting the phone in my pocket for five minutes made the phone unusable. Ugh!

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TL;DL:

Bad ghost swipe issues on my phone make typing fast really difficult as it constantly drops letters. Seems to be related to using T-Mobile USA SIM. If I take SIM out and reboot, touchscreen works great. Was using AT&T USA SIM until recently and didn't generally have issues.

If you have these issues, test your phone by removing your SIM and rebooting your phone.

Don't know if this is fixable through software -- I'm thinking no. My phone has the latest 05Q 4.4.4 update from OnePlus.

Was using this app to test: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers

>there was a Google developer that made a drawing app called "Markers"

damn, it's not just a Google developer - it's Dan Sandler! he's on the Android team and he's the one supposedly tasked to bring scrolling screenshots in Android 11.

maybe he's had a hand in this? if you're reading, /u/dsandler great work! 🍻

1. Photoshop
2. Adobe Illustrator
3. Corel Painter
4. zbrush
5. Autodesk Maya
6. Autodesk Mudbox (old logo)
7. Microsoft OneNote
8. CorelDraw
9. Flipaclip
10. Autodesk Sketchbook
11. MediBang
12. Zen Brush 2
13. ArtRage
14. Markers
15. Paint Tool Sai
16. Manga Studio Ex
17. Clip Studio Paint
18. also CorelDraw
19. Fire Alpaca
20. Gimp
21. Blender
22. Krita

I personally use Markers and then just pin the app so it can't be switched out of. Nice simple doodling app without ads. Has multi touch so my son can move 5 fingers across the screen and they'll register as different simultaneous strokes.

I know there was plenty of developer excitement about this app when it first came out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers it does a pretty good job of sensing pressure.

All my Android phones since the Droid X I had a long time ago have supported pressure sensing on the screens. Use this app as an example of it in action:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers&hl=en

The issue with Android using this to replicate the 3D touch feature is that is seems the sensing abilities varies from phone to phone. I notice that the pressure sensing on my OnePlus One is really wide but on the Asus Zenfone 2 a lost less so -- like even the lightest touch registers a moderate touch in Markers. On the OPO it's just a very fine line that gets painted. You can see this in action if you go into Dev Options-> Pointer options. At the top you will see the pressure reading which is between 0 and 1. I can get about 0.16 on my OPO with a very light touch. A normal touch is like 0.4-0.6 range and if I push hard it gets over 0.7. (With my index finger.) Because of this it would require calibration to work well on each phone, etc.

I would have to try the Apple implementation myself to see how useful it really is but since iOS generally lacks the tap-hold that Android implements, it seems like this is making up for it. Imagine top-hold on Facebook icon to post to your wall. On iOS 9 it's light tough on Facebook to bring a popup menu so you can update. Seems like you could replicate all of this with tap and hold, albiet a little slower since you have to wait the 750ms for the "hold" part to register.

I do predict my mother (an iPhone user) will really struggle with the 3D touch thing. Give it a try -- quickly try to touch your phone's screen really gently, it is hard. You have to hover and lightly lower your finger......

Markers:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers

Having something like Markers integrated would be awesome.

Markers is pretty good.

Is this the app you are talking about? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dsandler.apps.markers&hl=en