Overall I am disappointed using skritter on my htc. When the application seems to hang quite often especially if the connection is not very good. Waiting doesn't always solve the problem. So I often have to back out but then skritter forgets about the last few words, so after having skritter back on again I find it asks me about the same characters again, and then after s few it sometimes freezes again, so I have to back out and reload, etc

I was thinking of getting an android phone soon, and I was wondering how Skritter would work on it. I would be curious to know whether others have had similar experiences.

Also, my colleagues in China are able to write characters on their phone touchscreens. Is there good software available in the US android market to recognize characters written on the screen? It wound be very useful to be able to look up new characters that way.

Yeh, I've had some freezing issues on slow connections (especially when not using WIFI). I'm not sure, but perhaps it's just not handling slow mobile connections very well. I'll sometimes have to reload 3-4 times, but then I give up as it wastes too much time.

Generally when I have access to WIFI I have my computer available. The phone coupled with mobile internet was supposed to solve the mobility problem, but thus far it's been hit or miss. Sometimes it'll work without too much hassle and other times not so much.

Playing around with different browsers might be worth a try.

I'm using the MultiLing keyboard with the HanWriting plugin that is available for it to write characters into my nexus one. It is good for looking up words in the dictionary. However, your device needs to be at least at Gingerbread (Android 2.3).

Skritter loads just fine on my HTC desire but sometimes it does a mini freeze. Pressing the menu key twice (2nd time to get rid of the menu) seems to wake it up so I can continue on with no backtracking.

I have a Nexus One and use the standard browser. I hadn't noticed the freezing problem until yesterday, when I was practicing without WiFi (so it was alternating between 3G and Edge). At one point the Flash screen completely stopped responding to clicks. I gave it a number of taps, no response. Finally I tapped outside of the Flash area and tapped the Flash again, which woke it up; after that it was fine.

This is Android 2.3.4, Flash player 10.3.

James

A bad connection is really hard to recover from for a mobile application that was designed to be constantly communicating with the server. Mobile devices can take bad connections to extremes:

http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp

To those frustrated with the mobile Skritter performance: does it run smoothly when you have a solid WiFi connection and only show these problems when you're on your mobile internet?

@Nick I noticed the same Issue with my 3g connections, I am sure the Wifi has less problem, Nick I sent to skritter mail my screenshot showing you how I see the mnemonics on Android, it's very strange, let me know if you received.
Thanks

I don't think I got it--perhaps George did. Can you send it to nick@skritter instead?

I bought a Samsung Galaxy S II a few days ago, after reading on the Pleco forum that the Pleco Android beta seemed to be running fine on it, in spite of a few minor bugs (even OCR).
Skritter is working very well, both on mobile network and WiFi (Android 2.3.3, default browser).