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Why have many apps no Ableton Link support in the Android version ?

catherdercatherder
edited February 2023 in Other

I am not sure if there is a specific reason for this, but I notice that many apps that you get for both iOS and Android do lack support for Ableton Link in the Android version. Koala, Flip Sampler, Roland Zenbeats to name a few. Maybe many music app developers focus on iOS and have more or less given up on Android. But as a user of both platforms I find this rather frustrating. I do have a couple of older Android tablets that would make a good “add on” drum sampler or sequenced synth if Link would work. I would prefer Link to MIDI, because it works over WiFi and the latter can be a very mixed bag on Android. Planet-H with their excellent G-Stomper app series show that Link for Android is not impossible.

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  • sonosaurussonosaurus
    edited February 2023

    @catherder said:
    I am not sure if there is a specific reason for this, but I notice that many apps that you get for both iOS and Android do lack support for Ableton Link in the Android version. Koala, Flip Sampler, Roland Zenbeats to name a few. Maybe many music app developers focus on iOS and have more or less given up on Android. But as a user of both platforms I find this rather frustrating. I do have a couple of older Android tablets that would make a good “add on” drum sampler or sequenced synth if Link would work. I would prefer Link to MIDI, because it works over WiFi and the latter can be a very mixed bag on Android. Planet-H with their excellent G-Stomper app series show that Link for Android is not impossible.

    It can work on Android, I just implemented Link in an app on there. They don't advertise Android support in their GitHub repository, but it works using the LINK_PLATFORM_LINUX=1 define when building it. Perhaps that's why most developers haven't done it.... also it could be a licensing thing as you need to be GPL or get a proprietary license to use the cross-platform version of Link.

    Also, there is a very good reason music app developers focus more on iOS... it is still 10x better at everything audio-related than sad old Android. Some specific devices can work OK, but there are many that just don't... still a sad state of affairs.

  • michael_mmichael_m

    @sonosaurus said:
    Also, there is a very good reason music app developers focus more on iOS... it is still 10x better at everything audio-related than sad old Android. Some specific devices can work OK, but there are many that just don't... still a sad state of affairs.

    I was going to suggest something like that. Anything music-related I have ever tried on Android has made me give up pretty quickly.

  • catherdercatherder
    edited February 2023

    @sonosaurus said:
    It can work on Android, I just implemented Link in an app on there.

    I’m curious: What app are you talking about? Sonobus?

    Otherwise I fully agree with iOS being so much better for music making than Android. Otherwise I would not be here. I am just thinking about giving my old Android tablets a musical purpose. Maybe they will end as additional touch controllers - “Hello TouchOSC!”.
    And as one who uses Linux on the desktop for decades (both for work and music), I find it sad how little of the otherwise very good sound architecture made it into Android.

  • sonosaurussonosaurus

    @catherder said:

    @sonosaurus said:
    It can work on Android, I just implemented Link in an app on there.

    I’m curious: What app are you talking about? Sonobus?

    Actually, it is TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome, SonoBus doesn't have a need for Link quite yet...

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