pufftissue
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Hi, are you guys planning to make an Android web reader? I think that this is very useful when browsing chinese websites. If so, is this feature a high, medium, or low priority on your roadmap?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Web reader on Android planned just like on iOS?
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Yes - not a question of priority but of KitKat (with its vastly-improved embedded web browser) + later versions of Android becoming dominant enough (say around 60% share) that we can reasonably launch this feature as an exclusive for them; we really don't want to try to get it working on the old pre-KitKat embedded web browser too. It actually won't be that difficult to implement once we hit that point (most of the tricky code is in JavaScript and should work pretty seamlessly on that KitKat browser) but we're wary of doing it before then.
The only other time in our history we've launched a major new feature that didn't work on the vast majority of our customers' devices was when we launched OCR on iOS back in 2010 (requiring an iPhone 3GS or later back when there were still a huge number of original / 3G iPhones in circulation, not to mention totally camera-less iPads and iPod Touches), and while the launch in general was successful we got a *lot* of flak from users who were left out. We were also put in an awkward position regarding bundles; we left it out of bundles for a while and had annoyed users asking why it wasn't included, and then after we added it to bundles we had annoyed users asking us why they were paying for a feature they couldn't use.
EDIT: I should add that we actually support a basic web reader function on Android right now; if you simply "share" a web page from your web browser with Pleco Reader, it'll download the page data + extract the text from it + present that to you in a tap-lookup reader screen. (so basically the same function as the 'eyeglasses button' in our web reader on iOS)
The only other time in our history we've launched a major new feature that didn't work on the vast majority of our customers' devices was when we launched OCR on iOS back in 2010 (requiring an iPhone 3GS or later back when there were still a huge number of original / 3G iPhones in circulation, not to mention totally camera-less iPads and iPod Touches), and while the launch in general was successful we got a *lot* of flak from users who were left out. We were also put in an awkward position regarding bundles; we left it out of bundles for a while and had annoyed users asking why it wasn't included, and then after we added it to bundles we had annoyed users asking us why they were paying for a feature they couldn't use.
EDIT: I should add that we actually support a basic web reader function on Android right now; if you simply "share" a web page from your web browser with Pleco Reader, it'll download the page data + extract the text from it + present that to you in a tap-lookup reader screen. (so basically the same function as the 'eyeglasses button' in our web reader on iOS)