Feature Request: Home Sharing

The more I think about this the more I think it would be a great direction for Logos to take. I think Logos would be a great candidate for a Home Sharing feature similar to what's used in iTunes. I can access my entire PC music library and my wife's entire music library (on another PC) and listen to that music on my iPad's iPod app. I can also remotely control iTunes on both of those PCs from my iPad.

Wouldn't it be great if Logos worked like that? I could access any book on my PC and view it (with markups) on the Logos iPad app (or the Android app). I could access L4's features from the iPad with all of the processing done at the PC but the results displayed on the iPad. I could access my notes, my sentence diagrams, my personal books, or whatever else is stored on the PC.

This would make resource access times faster than waiting for Logos servers. Also, I wouldn't think the would violate license agreements with book publishers either. The books are stored on the PC and not transmitted across the Internet. It should also make transferring books to the iPad much faster.

What do you all think? Would this be a desirable feature?

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Brother Mark

Hiya Doug, Interesting suggestion, and apart from garnering other user's opinions, the best place to make a suggestion would be the Suggestions Forum.

A couple of things about the idea though... There are already a number of iPad apps that will allow you to remotely control and view your desktop from your iPad (I happen to be a fan of LogMeIn, but there are probably a dozen others including spashscreen, vnc, desktop connect, etc, etc.); so the question is whether the energy and resources required to do a Home Sharing feature for individual applications is cost effective or needed.

The other side of Home Sharing Logos between desktop and ipad is that Logos is very different on the two platforms. Therefore, the degree of interoperability that we have now is due to synchronization that takes place in the cloud, and is limited (at this point in time) to sharing resources between the two devices.... In my humble opinion, its unlikely that the IOS app can share the feature set, or appearance of the desktop Logos until the hardware is much closer to parity.

Doug

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/283312#Comment_283312

Thanks for the reply. I realize there are remote login apps. L4 is not really designed for a touch screen, so I don't particularly like that approach. As far as differences in the platforms, that's of no consequence for the kind of sharing I'm talking about. It's just a matter of making the apps read the markup language. It's very doable without a lot of overhead. Hardware doesn't have to increase a bit in the iPad (the iPad 2 is pretty fast anyway) because the processing would be done on the PC. I really think this would improve the iPad app by leaps and bounds without a great deal of programming effort. IMHO, this would be a great direction to go.