I ended up replacing my Pixel C with a Pixel Slate ChromeOS device. The blogosphere seems unanimous that Google has stopped developing/improving Android for tablets. So while the Android tablets I found seem to be solid devices, they’re going to come with extras that I don’t want! And Google no longer sells Android tablets. I buy Google phones - unlocked - so I don’t have to deal with manufacturer or phone company add ons that can’t be removed. I found they are offered by Asus, Samsung, Lenovo - and probably others, but ALL of them ship with Android 8 - and Android 11 is the current incarnation for Android phones.Ī Tangent: I don’t like the “extra” software that * non Google Android devices come with. When my trusty Pixel C tablet - already replaced once under extended warranty for a bad USB-C port (necessary for charging) - failed again (again wouldn’t charge), I researched what Android tablets are considered current technology. The problem I have with Android (which I love and prefer), at least in respect to encouraging Trimble to develop for Android, is that Google seems to have given up on updating tablet versions of Android! And I can’t, in good conscience, encourage any developer to develop for an (apparently) abandoned OS. If iPhone is easy to do as a (minor) fork of iPad - then go for it.

Thus if SketchUp is inclined to develop for Apple’s mobile market, I think the natural target is the iPad - not the iPhone.

Were I in the Apple ecosystem, I’d almost certainly want the iPad version, and I’d probably load it SketchUp on my phone - for emergency use only. On a phone, it would be marginally better if a pencil interface is included. Even if the code can be identical, I have a hard time imagining people trying to use SketchUp (or the Shapr3D app) on their phones.īased on my own use of SketchUp (web based) within Chrome on a full size computer screen, android tablets, and android phones, 3D modeling works best on a big screen, is OK on a tablet, and is extremely frustrating on a phone.

Based on the links given, to iPad with Apple Pencil, most certainly.īut mobile phones are another beast - the issue is screen space. I’m no longer familiar enough with Apple’s ecosystem to say this for sure, but the developers probably could port SketchUp over to Apple’s ecosystem.

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