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Hello,
Full disclosure, I know almost nothing about computers. I have a 10 year old with autism that really wants adobe animate. We are buying her a new ipad and I was wondering if this program will be supported properly with an ipad or if she needs something more like a macbook? I don't want to cause her frustration with things lagging. Thank you for any help!
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Hi.
That's great she wants to learn Animate!
Unfortunately there are no plans to release Adobe Animate for the iPad as far as I can tell.
And without a doubt the best to do is to run Animate from a desktop computer, like the MacBook.
But if for some reason you still need to display Animate on the iPad, there's a workaround: you can use the iPad as a second screen / sidecar.
This means you're gonna run Animate from a desktop computer and then display the Animate IDE (interface) on the iPad screen.
While this approach is valid - specially for Apple users - my experience trying to display Animate on a second screen using a Windows PC + a software called Duet Display wasn't that good because I faced a lot of connectivity issues.
But if you have a MacBook there's a feature introduced recently that allows the usage of the iPad as a second screen natively. If you can't use this new feature, you could try using a software called Astropad.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.
Regards,
JC
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Hi Luci,
Just to add to what Joao said, here is a link to a lengthy response I wrote to another woman who did not come back to even look at it.
It may be somehow useful in your case.
All the best!