A dedicated smartphone app.
An smartphone (iPhone, Android) application able to edit mindmup on the road offline.
MindMup for iOS devices is now available for general use – we’re taking the Beta marker off, because we finally ensured that users of the mobile app are as productive as when using the desktop app.
For more info about the mobile app, and to install it on your iOS device, see http://discover.mindmup.com/mindmup-for-ios
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Google drive import will be supported in the IOS app in the next few days. We're working on it now
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Anonymous commented
Hi. Can you import a mindmup from Google Drive into the iPad app and then sych? If so, how. Thanks
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we'll work on an android app when all the IOS interaction is proven. We redesigned the UX completely for the IOS mobile app, so we want to prove that it makes sense first before porting to other devices.
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Rohit commented
What about Android ? no beta versions ?
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Robin commented
In my mind as a Firefox OS developer a native phone app is totally unnecessary since the web application is working so great in the phone and tablet browsers,
and keeps the maps easily reachable over all platforms.
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Tommaso Sartor commented
Hi, I'm pretty inexperienced in this field, but I was wondering if it possible to avoid the complete rewrite of the project using the "web" code into the mobile device. Either editing and adapting the code to run better on smartphones browsers either using set of API's that let you interact with the native functions of the devices like Apache Cordova.
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Patrick - that would be correct if android was a single market. unfortunately, it is so fragmented that it's actually 30-40 different markets, and given that there is only two of us building mindmup it's a bit too much for us to support all at once.
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Patrick Burns commented
I do not understand you app developers. WHY do you all develop for "iPhone first?" Android currently runs on 80 percent of the worlds smartphones, with iOS on just 15% (and falling.) Why do you all constantly pander to this minority of the smartphone market??? It makes no sense that you wouldn't develop for the largest user base FIRST, and then port to other platforms.
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kabookie commented
IPad would have my vote.
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shashank sahu commented
Hi MindMup dev team,
I find your response contradictory, since you simply declined for native application for any platform.
http://mindmup.uservoice.com/forums/200447-what-should-we-focus-on-next-/suggestions/4225342-windows-8-metro-app-or-a-desktop-application
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Jerry Suppan commented
Fantastic news! Since development started in Nov. 2013, we can hopefully expect to see something forth coming soon? :-)
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Rohit - we'll do the IOS one first, android will come after that if the IOS one turns out to be OK.
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Rohit Kshirsagar commented
what about android ?
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Subin Varghese commented
Smartphone app would be a good idea. So that I can work on the same mindmap (sync using dropbox/Google drive) on either phone or computer
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Jerry - You can already export as Freemind (File->Export->Freemind)
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Jerry Suppan commented
Offline access goes without saying. Of course, I'd like to have real time access to mind maps similarly as I do with Google spreadsheets. But sometimes internet connectivity is not always available. (e.g. on an 5-hour flight somewhere) In such situations one is inhibited from making progress on a mindmap because of lack of connectivity. Please incorporate offline capability. If not technically feasible for you folks (and/or do not want to incorporate this function), then at least make it possible to export to an iphone / android / computer as .MM (freemind, freeplane) file so that offline progress on mindmap production can be controlled by the author.
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Anonymous commented
Offline access is definitely needed and easy use in mobile than now with the web
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Benjamin commented
Offline access is definitely needed.
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Sami Söderblom commented
I think approach a'la Evernote could work the best. When there's no connection, the app saves a local copy (preferably via autosave). Then when there is connection, the latest version gets uploaded to server.
There's a potential risk though. What if there's no connection via mobile and meanwhile the mindmap gets updated elsewhere? That's why it needs version history too. If mobile version gets uploaded as older version, it does not sync with the latest version, but instead is saved as a separate version. The content of it can be then combined by hand by the happy user.
Version history would be good also for other reasons (mistakes, decision branching, etc.)
PS: I'd love to have more graphical elements to the software in general. Those would help to make nodes distinctive and further enhance the visual power of the mindmaps.
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Jim Evans commented
For me the priority is mobile access - the web app is unusable on a touch screen phone - dragging is awkward as you often end up scrolling etc. Touch and click actions don't behave as expected.
A dedicated mobile app would use the same "language" of interactions - making using the application much easier and more intuitive.
That said, offline access might be useful, but certainly not a requirement for me.