Nook Color

Any ideas if this will be able to run logos when the android app comes out? I am very much interested in getting this for Christmas if there is any way for me to run the logos app on it.

I know I could do biblia.com, or transfer books but I find it only worth it if I could get the logos app for it.

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Dave Dunkin (Logos)

The Nook Color will not run apps from the Android Market, and B&N has not laid out their requirements for 3rd party apps, so I can't say whether or not there will be a Logos app for the Nook.

NYSERVANT

Thanks dave. I understand that logos may not find it worthwhile to create an app for just a single product like that but I sure would love it. I might end up buying the archos 7o if logos comes out for android soon.

Dan Francis

I certainly can't speak for the Logos development team in any respect, but from what I have read on here in the past. The web based Logos access is the way they expect you to use http://biblia.com/ So with the nook if you can browse web pages you will be able to use logos in the same respect you can use biblia. Now as for Android, I think Logos should offer it but I honestly can;t see it happening. Look at twitter. it had to make over one hundred different versions of it's android app to run on the over 200 variations of handsets. Logos seems to have it;s hands full dealing with the iOS version it has. I believe I even saw it mention outside help for it. Now iOS is very standardized, if they need help doing it. How likely are they to release an android version which may run on a small portion of devices. Or give the effort to develop over a hundred to cover most of the android devices. Maybe in the future android will be standardized enough to develop on but for now it's a real mess. I have seen reports on more than one developer who has had great success with the iOS, drop or scale back plans for Android because they just can't make one application that runs on all devices. One of the game makers literally had angry emails saying the quality of their game for android was nowhere near their iOS App version and they felt ripped off, and the companies response was they did the best they could do, but because of the widely varying hardware setups it wasn't possible for them to make their android version equal the iOS version. It may sound like a cop out, but when you hear of the problems twitter had, you realize development for android is not as easy as it should theoretically be.

What really needs to happen is an android developer making a nice interface for biblia (which is currently, for the most part, what the iOS app is at the moment), but then there are screen size issues. are you making it for the large 7" galaxy, the regular phone, or the 2.6" phone with the 240x320 screen, after all it is an android phone. Apple deserves and should have competition, but Android while I do believe will end up being iOS's main rival right now it still seems like a joke on the software development side due in no small part to the lack of hardware standards. You have lots of hardware choices out there but it's almost luck of the draw if your device will run a program. I am thankful for companies like twitter who want to be android friendly, but in the end can you see how the more complex an application you get the more problems you run into with widely varying hardware. And saying you must have x size screen and y speed processor to run this, sounds like an over simplification when you consider that the 200 some different models likely don' have 100 different screen speed variations (although math was never my strongest suit and my knowledge of android is based an what my spouse has experienced on his Android, and choices in handsets he had).

-dan

Dave Dunkin (Logos)

We are planning an Android app.

http://www.logos.com/mobile/android

J.R. Miller

Now as for Android, I think Logos should offer it but I honestly can;t see it happening.

You might want to see this http://www.logos.com/mobile/android

Blessings

Joe

I am not a developer so I have no insight in that area, I just wanted to pass on the latest information.

Alan Charles Gielczyk

Wow, if you don't like Android why don't you just come out and say it. No need for half a dozen back-handed insults. Android is actually outselling iOS at the moment and will be the only real competition iOS has due to the number of devices and carrier options people have. With Netflix, hulu, and Logos apps coming soon there will be little the iOS can do that any Android device can't. I have an iPad and an android phone and love them both. I am not saying twitter did not have difficulty with their apps, I am only saying that my experience on two Android forums as well as at least four Android blogs I follow I have heard nothing of the sort and if they did it is the exception not the rule. Can't wait for the Logos Android app!