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Lightroom Mobile for Android Users?

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April 8, 2014
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Hey there,

I'm curious as to whether or not the app will be ported to Android. Adobe say that the iPhone app is coming soon but never mentions Android.

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Allan Zeiba

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I understand that Adobe prioritize iOS over Android development, less variables and provably his target audience use more iproducts than android devices, the one thing that I don't understand is why they don't talk about it, in the presentation of the CC 2014 the talk was center in the multi-content and multi-platform requirements for today, but you lack to show any advances, previews or even mention the other's platforms in the game, we need to see Android clearly represent and care, I can wait for the android apps to be develop, if I knew they are coming, but there is simple no info about it, that's the one thing that bothers me a lot

Keith Reeder

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Allan Zeiba wrote:

the one thing that I don't understand is why they don't talk about it

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hansswolfs

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wether iOS or Android should be the first I'll keep in the middle (Windows & Android user here) but what I find even more stunning is that when the iPad version is available, they'll focus first on an iPhone version????? who is ever going to use LR mobile on a mobile phone honestly?

In the end the Android version will come but honestly today I'm not missing LR Mobile on my Android tablet and not sure if it will ever replace my Windows 8 Asus Zenbook with Adobe CC installed on it for work on the road...

So just be patient and all will be well people...

john beardsworth

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People take a lot of photos with iPhones, and will want to adjust and share them from the phone.

LrM is also not just about adjusting, and I feel I use it much more for just having lots of pictures handy for showing people, which you can do on a phone too. You've also got to consider what Lightroom users are using as their mobile platform - 60% iPads, 20% iPhones, and the Galaxy is the top Android device at 3%. That explains why it's iPads first, then iPhones.

John

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hansswolfs

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no offense but the Galaxy is a device, not a platform... ipads all run the same version of iOS so basically that's a platform. That's comparing apples with lemons

anyway, I don't want to make this the 7 gazillionth Apple cs Android discussion; let that be clear

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Tom Hogarty

Adobe Employee

Sorry if this information wasn't readily available but we're releasing iPad first, then targeting the iPhone then the Android platform. Android is most certainly on our roadmap but we're not quite ready to commit to the time frame yet.

Regards,

Tom

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BobZ30

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I understand, again, that you do one platform first. What I don't understand, and have never had explained to me, why the Apple devices always come first,

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BobZ30

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For the same reason everyone kowtowed to Internet Explorer for over a decade: they'd rather follow the whims of a fad and go where the sheep go than do the right thing.

I'm an avid Mac user. I use Creative Cloud for OS X, and I do all my editing on Macs. But when it comes to mobile, that's where Apple and I part ways. I have owned every version of the iPad up to the "iPad Air" and found every single one of them overly restrictive, closed, and more of a hinderance than a help to a genuine mobile photography workflow. No matter how many cloud-based sync gimmicks developers try to stand up for them, IOS devices are first and foremost iTunes peripherals, and toys for content consumption -not creation -and certainly not asset management.

I pay (now monthly) for the convenience, flexibility, and platform agnosticism of Adobe apps. I have come to expect Adobe's love affair with Apple to take priority in the desktop arena, and I'd be willing to bet more than half of the creative community agrees with that sentiment; but it saddens me a little to know that Adobe would prioritize IOS over more open and flexible mobile platforms, knowing full-well what a bunch of control freaks Apple are in this arena.

No one who has ever plugged an SD card full of 24MP or greater RAW files into an iPad considers this a serious option. So, until Adobe decides to stop catering to the Fischer Price mobile crowd and make a serious tablet app, we'll just have to keep lugging our laptops along on photoshoots.

Given that this is the way of the mobile marketplace for the foreseeable future, I'm not holding my breath.

Thank you. I've worked on Apple machines, a variety of Windows machines and presently on a Windows machine I built. I never really found any deal-breaking differences between the two platforms other than the expense of Apple devices and how controlling the company can be. I had an iPad early, but have found Android tablets much more open.

Anyway, I doubt in Adobe will move forward very quickly on an Anodrod version of LR Mobile.

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BobZ30

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I am also curious about this. Android tablets far outsell iPads. I realize that a majority of creative types stick to their pretty Apple devices, but that shouldn't be a reason to ignore a great many people. I notice that nobody from Adobe has replied to your questions. I asked the same question on the Lightroom Journal and nobody had the courtest to reply there either. Oh, well.