I need a app..

borich_planner · 22 Apr 2011 at 18:00

I work for a local Council as a town planner and have to deal with 100's of planning applications a year. Going on site with a folder full of plans which can sometimes all be A0 is not fun!

So today I went into the apple shop and went on the Ipad 2 went onto the Council'ls web site and logged in and could view all the plans for one of my applications as PDF's. Now viewing the plans through the web site is not that quick but once I got a nice plan up as a PDF it was so much easier to view than having the paper plan in front of me.

Now this got me thinking. It would be great if I could have a app on a tablet which let me get all my plans I need for a site visit dump and browse them in a quick an easy format.

Until today I saw no need for tablets but this all changed today. I can see a great future for the construction industry in using tablets...

So would someone create me the app!

muon · 22 Apr 2011 at 22:21

Why don't you just download them all on your PC and then transfer them?

Also I recommend checking out android tablets as they have higher resolution screens, giving your more real estate. However, currently released 1280*800 tablets aren't as light as the ipad 2.

Adobe make an official app for android, and they probably do for iOS as well.

[TW]Fox · 23 Apr 2011 at 00:06

Just use a laptop?

Rich_L · 23 Apr 2011 at 00:15

So Dropbox then?

Serious suggetion btw - I uploaded a ton of pdf ebooks to my Dropbox and just download them to my phone if I fancy reading something.

borich_planner · 23 Apr 2011 at 06:06

Ipad failed for me as no flash.

Wicksta · 23 Apr 2011 at 08:21

[TW]Fox;18965768 said:
Just use a laptop?

No good without sitting down or putting it on a desk.

borich_planner · 23 Apr 2011 at 09:00

Wicksta said:
No good without sitting down or putting it on a desk.

On a construction site a tablet would be much better than laptop.

Wicksta · 23 Apr 2011 at 09:24

borich_planner said:
On a construction site a tablet would be much better than laptop.

Yeah that's what I mean, I can really see a use for it there. In fact any job with a clipboard!

Simian · 24 Apr 2011 at 08:27

AutoDesk just released AutoCAD-WS for android (its been available on iOS for about a month!)...

Playing with it on my Xperia Arc (needs a 1Ghz Processor!!) and it works fatastically!!.. Just set up an account with the WS server and Sync your drawings (in .dwg format) and you can zoom, rotate etc using 'multitouch'

Works a dream so far!!..

AND ITS FREE!!! (which from autoDesk is unheard of!!)

rG-tom · 24 Apr 2011 at 13:07

i'd be interested to see an app for android that allows you to flick through single page PDFs like you can through gallery photos (ie a directory that has 20 1 page PDFs)

Any ideas? Opening and closing just isn't an option as some of the jobs have like ~70-80 pdfs, and being able to flick through them printed is brilliant and a tablet alternative wouldn't be taken seriously unless you could do this.

DefiantAsh · 24 Apr 2011 at 13:49

Look at Honeycomb, i know its new, but the interface should be good for what you are looking for, depends what HC tablet you want though Xoom/Transformer/G-Slate etc.

And with the nvidia tegra2 processors, they are pretty fast

and the Transformer has 1GB ram so thats quite nice

im not sure about the others though.

I have dropbox on my phone, and it works a treat, you can also drop images onto the website version when you log in, and then each device you have dropbox on - pc/netbook/phone/tablet - you can view the file, and its free