Family Tree Maker 2012 Android App

[sally flynn]

Hello everyone,
Flying a bit blind here but I am going to buy a Samsung tablet for an
overseas trip.
All I want it for is to put my FTM 12 on it and use it for internet..

So.....how do I go about buying the appropriate app? Got no idea really
what I am doing but thought there must be heaps of people that do know what
I want to do!!

Any help greatly appreciated

Regards
Sally Flynn

[Tony Moore]

Dear Sally,

If you haven't bought your Samsung or ipad yet, then be sure to read this:
I think it will be an eye-opener.

http://tinyurl.com/89kbvhk
or full address:
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/genealogy-apps-for-tablet
-computers.html

Last August I arrived back from overseas and a friend I shared the study course
with from Calcutta was given a Samsung before she left home. It supposedly was
the latest and greatest.

I tried to do keyboard gymnastics to make the Tablet do what my ancient &
antique laptop would do and it just **DOES NOT** have the capabilities. It
cannot cope with CD's or DVD's - you will have to purchase separately an
external DVD reader / writer that **MUST HAVE** an independent power source.
Minimum $200+ for a good one.

Neither Ipad nor Android tablet has enough internal available power capability
drive the writer, so it **MUST** have an external power source

For all those photos, especially at high resolution, and movies you **WILL**
take with the tablet or ipad which eat up memory, you will need buy an
external hard drive or you will be writing DVD's all day. Again the hard drive
**MUST** have it's own independent power source, not from ipad or tablet only a
data cable.

Ipad and Tablet both **WILL** read and write to Memory cards or Memory sticks
but you will need **LOTS** of them ! Universal memory card-readers that have a
USB pug are very cheap, and plug into your ipad or tablet.... A ** NECESSITY**
if you have other equipment.

IF your ipad or tablet does not have microphone capabilities (check up, I'm not
sure) then buy a small digital audio recorder **WITH** a removable memory card
(or capability). They are about the same size or smaller than a mobile phone.
You will not regret it ! Less than $300

Other useful items: a 240volt to twin 5volt-USB power plug as a charger or
power source. If you are going to a country that uses 110 volt you may have to
buy one in that country. Relatively cheap. A Universal conversion plug kit is
also a necessity for Australian 240 volt equipment) I have had no experience
with 110volt equipment.

As mentioned before, my antique laptop without realizing it earlier solved all
my problems. I was even able to connect freely to the internet at any American
embassy shop (McDonalds) with free wi-fi and some hotels / B & B's.

Depending on your expected future needs, perhaps you may need to investigate a
cheap laptop. Weigh up all the pro's and con's.

Cheers,

Tony Moore
(Castle Hill, NSW)
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On 5 May 2013 at 14:48, sally flynn wrote:

Date sent: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:48:41 +1000
Subject: Family Tree Maker 2012 Android App
From: sally flynn <sallymur...@gmail.com>
To: genanz <GEN...@rootsweb.com>

[Doug Laidlaw]

The Android operating system is owned by Google. If you already have a
Google Account, you can use it at Google Play. When you have your tablet,
there will be a link to Google Play on the touch screen. From there, you can
search for the app and install it. It is free.

From the link Tony gave:

"Neither Legacy nor Family Tree Maker has a version that will run on the
Nook Tablet or the Kindle Fire nor on any other Android or iOS tablet
computers."

That is true: you can't run the full program on your tablet. For FTM, you
can do editing on your tablet and the changes will be saved to your online
tree. When you start the app, it synchronizes your active tree with the
online one. You can NOT save changes directly to FTM on your computer, but
you can synchronize the changes from online to FTM.

For Legacy, two programs are available: FamiliesSync and GedStar Pro. Both
have a utility on your home computer to convert your file to a database,
which you then upload to your tablet. One of them, I think GedStar, has
versions for the other online family tree sites.

I agree that using the tablet's on-screen keyboard is a pain. Dick Smith
has a Samsung tablet with a keyboard linked to it by a wire frame, giving
you the best of both worlds. I bought a cheap Bluetooth keyboard sold for
an iPad. It works well. Bluetooth was included in my tablet. It has no
internet connection, but does have a wi-fi connection. You should be able
to connect to McDonald's hotspot with it. Another thing it has is GPS.
There is a paid app for it which will give you Tom-Tom street maps for
countries of your choosing.

The other comments on the link are worth reading. I have a tree with under
3,750 individuals and 100 photos. I have no space problems with my 16 GB
tablet.

HTH,

Doug.

[Colin Liddell]

Doug,
If I have read your comments correctly, I should be able to install Families
on my Kindle Fire, Families Sync on my PC, transfer my Legacy file through
Families Sync on to my Kindle Fire, have I got that right or have I got the
wrong end of the stick?

Colin.

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[Doug Laidlaw]

I don't know anything about the Kindle Fire, Colin. I first heard about it
when I read the link in Tony's post. According to the description on
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire) it runs a "forked
version" of Google's Android O.S. That means that they have produced their
own adaptation of the Android O/S, which may or may not be compatible. I do
know that the e-book format on the Kindle is not compatible with other epub
standards, meaning that you can use it only for material downloaded from
Amazon.com. I am afraid you are on your own.

My tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab2 running Android 4.0.3.

Doug.

[Doug Laidlaw]

According to Wikipedia, the Kindle Fire is the second biggest seller after
the iPad. That may be true, but consider this. The iPad is the only tablet
that runs the iPad operating system. The Kindle Fire is the only tablet
that runs its operating system. Anything else runs "pure" Android. I have
a Samsung; I have seen tablets by Huwaei on display that run Android. Other
brands are mentioned on the Google Play Web site. When these are all added
together, the Kindle Fire would probably drop into third place. Wikipedia
has a list of file and image formats it supports, but says nothing about
whether it supports any third-party applications. Amazon.com aren't silly!
You can tell Google Play what hardware you have, and it will advise whether
a particular app is compatible or not.

I saw a mention that the Kindle Fire uses USB to transfer files, and could
be slow for that reason. Anything I transfer is so small that the
difference would be negligible. But I have no personal experience of the
Kindle Fire.

Doug.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> I don't know anything about the Kindle Fire, Colin. I first heard about
> it
> when I read the link in Tony's post. According to the description on
> Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire) it runs a "forked
> version" of Google's Android O.S. That means that they have produced
> their
> own adaptation of the Android O/S, which may or may not be compatible. I
> do know that the e-book format on the Kindle is not compatible with other
> epub standards, meaning that you can use it only for material downloaded
> from
> Amazon.com. I am afraid you are on your own.
>
> My tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab2 running Android 4.0.3.
>
> Doug.

>> Colin.
>>
>>

[sally flynn]

I want to thank everyone for their replies regarding running FTM 12 on a
tablet, but I realise now I should have made myself a lot clearer.
I want FTM 12 to be a read only file. I just want to check details on it
when and where needed.
If I get further information while I am away I will either get hard copies,
photograph it or write the information in a note book (very old fashioned
for these days).
As there is a lot of information that I have not confirmed in my FTM
12 file I have not published it on ancestry.com even though I am a member.
Regards and many thanks again to those who took the time to reply.
Sally Flynn