Hi! Maybe your alread aware of this but the android phone version of skritter still doesnt work properly. The writing field does no longer fit to the screen the way it used to (a few moths ago). The text above the square starts further to the left and ends further to the right when compared to the square resulting in a blue border on both sides of the square, making it look kind of like a big T.
Performance wise its not very good either. A lot of the time, lines dont "register", ie nothing happens, and when you try to draw it again, the line u previously wrote appears together with the second line. For example when you try to write a —, the first time nothing happens, the the second time both lines flashes at the same time resulting in something that looks like a =, or maybe a Z. Its like its continuing to write the first stroke even after u've finnished it, like it doesnt understand to end the first stroke when you lift ur finger. Im using a samsung galaxy1.

I think the performance problem you describe is a bug in Flash Player that is fixed in Flash Player 11, which will hopefully come to Android soon, but I'm not sure. Basically, it stops rendering when you take your finger off of the screen. A nasty one with no workaround that I know of but waiting, although I'm not sure why it's not affecting everyone.

If you visit this URL, does it do the layout that you wanted?

http://www.skritter.com/study/all?tablet=false

The link you provided works perfect, +bookmarked ^^
I guess all we can do is wait for flash 11 for android then :/

Thanks for the help!

Hmm--what device are you using, again? Is it a tablet or a phone?

Hi Nick,

I have a Dell Streak 5 which is a combination of a tablet and a phone.
I've had the same "register" issues as DaXia.
But it seems that they're fixed now with Flash Player 11 for Android.
Works now perfectly fine for me!
What I can suggest Android users who have flash supported devices is that they use Dolphine Browser HD because then they'll have the best Skritter experience.

I have a question at this point. What is the difference between
http://www.skritter.com/study/all?tablet=false
and
http://www.skritter.com/study/all?zooming=true

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Can you also add these layout-URLs to the FAQ/Help-Section?
So other users who also face the same issue can find it from there.

Great to hear that performance is better with FP11! I'll be eager to hear more reports of it in action for other devices.

I'm really hoping to get rid of the URLs, which I'm using for testing temporary changes to the way we do layouts for different devices. ?zooming=true, for example, is obsolete and doesn't do anything right now.

Currently, there are four layouts, which you can see in action here:

http://www.skritter.com/study/all?android=false
http://www.skritter.com/study/all?android=true&tablet=false
http://www.skritter.com/study/all?android=true&tablet=true
http://www.skritter.com/study/all?android=true&tablet=true&resolution_width=800

(The last one is for the bigger tablets, and is very similar visually to the normal layout.)

I have FP11 and the flash still doesn't seem to work properly unfortunately. HTC Desire, it's really unusable sadly.

ximeng, is it that it just stops rendering sometimes when you take your finger off the device, or does it keep rendering but is too slow in general?

nick: yes sometimes stops rendering. Also seen it highlighting the correct tone too early (I think) or highlighting one in red, one in green at the same time, possibly due to touches being registered at the wrong time? The show button takes several times for me to activate sometimes.

I've seen the issue with characters continuing to write after your finger comes up and comes down again, as described by DaXia.

It's actually a bit better this morning, but still seeing the problems above intermittently. Rendering speed is fine except when it freezes.

It seems like that bug wasn't fixed in FP11 after all. It's a pretty weird and terrible bug, to have your Flash Player stop rendering when you take your finger off the screen (which is causing all the symptoms you describe, it seems). I still don't have any clues for debugging it.

I'm not sure if it's related, but if I accidentally hit the right click button and click a menu item (edit: maybe just right click does it), then Skritter stops rendering for me too. (Well, it renders the first millisecond of the stroke). I have to restart the browser to get things working again. This is on my mac.

No big deal for me, but just in case there was any connection.

Hmm, that's strange, Byzanti--I can't reproduce. Are you still using the speedy Chrome 4?

Well, a chromium 4 variant (yet to find anything even equally fast), so it's not using a packaged flash. I figured it was a bug related to the browser, which was why I never reported it. No big deal. Just mentioned it in case it was any way related to this similar bug.

I'm not sure--Android can't even trigger the Flash context menus, right? So although the symptom seems similar, the cause almost has to be different.