I am very close to buying a Chromebook for bush use mainly to run Wiki Camps and navigation software on a larger screen - it's difficult to plan on a 7" tablet.
The other day I configured Android x-86 on an old notebook and all was good except I cannot find any way to zoom in/out in Wiki Camps without a touch screen.
My question is:
Is anyone running a Chromebook with Wiki Camps and/or other apps. and how do you find it?
StreetsAhead said
08:56 PM Nov 18, 2020
The easiest way is with a mouse ie two buttons and a wheel in the middle (not the squeaking kind). Hold CTRL and move the mouse wheel up or down.
As far as I know there is no keyboard keys that perform a zoom function, but you can hold Ctrl and press the + key this makes the screen bigger.
Mike Harding said
11:41 AM Nov 20, 2020
Got it.
To do a zoom function on Android running on a PC double click with the mouse(pad) and hold the key down on the second click.
Mike Harding said
11:54 AM Nov 20, 2020
It seems running Android apps. on Chrome is a bit hit and miss.
Yesterday I purchased a Lenovo C340 Chromebook which is a good little computer in many respects... trouble is it won't run Wiki Camps. Wiki Camps consistently crashes immediately it starts, I have notified WK with an error report but I am not optimistic they'll fix it. WK *may* work on other Chromebooks?
The C340 will however run the mapping software OsmAnd which is sophisticated and complex and resource hungry. It also runs the few other Android apps I tried but, sadly, not Wiki Camps.
Mike Harding said
01:11 PM Nov 27, 2020
Finally!
I now have Android V7 (x86) running on my high end Windows notebook in a dual boot scenario using an external USB drive which will soon morph into a 128GB micro SD card. This was not a trivial task!
Anyway, both Wiki Camps and OsmAnd+ run quite competently in full screen mode on the notebook as do the few other Android apps. I tried including Play Store.
If there is interest I'll write up a procedure for the above and start a new thread. *Be aware* unless you are very comfortable messing around with low level disk activity (partitions and the like) this is not a road for you.
Tony LEE said
03:05 PM Nov 27, 2020
I have a Lenovo TB-X704V running Android 7
. 1.1 and it runs wikicamps
I am very close to buying a Chromebook for bush use mainly to run Wiki Camps and navigation software on a larger screen - it's difficult to plan on a 7" tablet.
The other day I configured Android x-86 on an old notebook and all was good except I cannot find any way to zoom in/out in Wiki Camps without a touch screen.
My question is:
Is anyone running a Chromebook with Wiki Camps and/or other apps. and how do you find it?
The easiest way is with a mouse ie two buttons and a wheel in the middle (not the squeaking kind). Hold CTRL and move the mouse wheel up or down.
As far as I know there is no keyboard keys that perform a zoom function, but you can hold Ctrl and press the + key this makes the screen bigger.
Got it.
To do a zoom function on Android running on a PC double click with the mouse(pad) and hold the key down on the second click.
It seems running Android apps. on Chrome is a bit hit and miss.
Yesterday I purchased a Lenovo C340 Chromebook which is a good little computer in many respects... trouble is it won't run Wiki Camps. Wiki Camps consistently crashes immediately it starts, I have notified WK with an error report but I am not optimistic they'll fix it. WK *may* work on other Chromebooks?
The C340 will however run the mapping software OsmAnd which is sophisticated and complex and resource hungry. It also runs the few other Android apps I tried but, sadly, not Wiki Camps.
Finally!
I now have Android V7 (x86) running on my high end Windows notebook in a dual boot scenario using an external USB drive which will soon morph into a 128GB micro SD card. This was not a trivial task!
Anyway, both Wiki Camps and OsmAnd+ run quite competently in full screen mode on the notebook as do the few other Android apps. I tried including Play Store.
If there is interest I'll write up a procedure for the above and start a new thread. *Be aware* unless you are very comfortable messing around with low level disk activity (partitions and the like) this is not a road for you.