Re: [tlug] Japanese and Android tablets like the Nexus 7

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:41:38PM +0900, Nikolay Elenkov wrote:
> On 12/16/2012 11:11 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
> 
> > - over wlan: running sshdroid on the tablet and using sshfs
> >    on a linux system is reliable
> 
> If you have root, you can also run Samba and create shares,
> access is much faster. There are a few apps that make this easy.
> Most popular file manager apps (Astro, ES File Explorer, etc.)
> allow you to mount remote shares if you want to grab media
> from your NAS, etc.

I did not believe the cpu would be the bottleneck here, but you
are right: also after tuning ssh options the wlan connection is
fast enough so one of the 4 cores of the nexus7 gets busy.


> Google Japanese IME is also quite good.
> 
> <shameless-plug>
> Kanji Recognizer works offline and recognizes handwritten
> kanji pretty well as long as you have the basic stroke order
> right.
> </shameless-plug>
Indeed, congrats.


> By far the best SIP app is CSipSimple. Nice to your battery
> and allows for a lot of customization.

Still have to test that one.


> MX Player is the undisputed winner here. VLC is still quite
> flaky on Android.

Will give that a try the next days when the sessions of the
Chaos Communication Congress are streamed.


Any ideas how to configure the weather view which can be
seen here on the left side?
http://www.blogcdn.com/japanese.engadget.com/media/2011/10/eeepadslidersl10102.jpg
Must be something really simple.. but did not get this 
view so far.

cheers, Christian