I been experimenting with hookpad on my android phone, and it works pretty well, but when a project gets too big, like 3 lines or more, its really tough to zoom it correctly. It responds to my zooming, either with pinch gesture or with the zoom buttons, but it focuses on the bottom of the project and won’t let me scroll back up to the top.
Also thanks for being literally the only app in the android game that lets you export AND import midi. I have been using a piano app that records midi to metronome to import into hookpad melody line and then export it all into tuxguitar to tweak further, all on my phone. But the zooming is very annoying, I spent a lot of time trying to zoom into the melody line to just adjust some notes and it kept zooming to the bottom so ultimately i had to just touch it very gently when it was zoomed all the way out and hope for the best.
Yes, there are a few things which are problematic when using Hookpad on a phone. At the moment it’s working but it’s not really been optimized for phone use yet. I think to get the best out of a phone we would need all the chord and melody note windows to appear dynamically on screen so they won’t take up half of your screen when you try to read the score.
I’ll put on our feature list and we’ll brainstorm a bit. Perhaps there is an easy solution.
Thanks! It doesnt have to be a big overhaul of how the windows work I dont think, just right now the main issue seems to be when I try to zoom in it zooms to the bottom of the screen instead of the area I’m pinching on. Also I just discovered the touch controls option and the nudge buttons, which helps a lot. How bout a ‘select all melody notes (but not chords)’ option in the edit menu in the meantime so dont have to worry too much about zooming in to select notes?
A couple suggestions. 1) if you use two finger scroll within the score, this is how you pan the scroll around on mobile. 2) Check out this article 5 Tips for Using Hookpad on iPad which shows you how to use the touch-friendly GUI, make note height taller (for finger interaction) and a few other useful things. Let us know how it goes after trying this!
Cheers,
Chris