So resolve is getting close to final submission of the Anki native iPhone app. It looks pretty sweet with a decent feature list in the first release and the promise of plenty more features to come.

I know pretty much everyone on this forum has benefitted hugely from Anki, and will continue to do so into the future. I don't think there's ever been a program with a lone developer with such good support and whose development responds so quickly to user requests.

This iPhone app is the first version of Anki which won't be free. In fact, it will probably be entering the app store at $25, which is above the standard app price band. Is it worth it? In my opinion, hell yes it is. I see this as a great opportunity to give support to resolve at the same time as getting something in return for your money. Many people might have considered donating to Anki in the past and never got around to it, or decided in the end that they couldn't afford to give up money for nothing. Well soon you can show your support and get a nice app.

$25 dollars is approximately 7 Starbucks coffees where I live, or the price of a very cheap textbook. I know I appreciate anki more than that.

So who's going to be queuing at the App Store on release day?

When I get an iphone that will be my first app for sure.
But I just spent $250 on textbooks so I will have to wait for the iphone. XP
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I have not found a feature list. Where can it be found, how does it compare to ankimini?

If it will let me bring my Core6k deck over with audio, I'll pay $25 gladly. $25 is a bargain, considering I've used Anki for hundreds of hours over eight months and it's become the center of my study program for both Japanese and my university courses.

Edit: Looks like sound will be in a later update. I'll probably buy it immediately, but I might wait until I can get sound. It would be a lot nicer than using AnkiOnline in the iPod's Safari.

The app is 'dropping' soon? Is it going to be a 'dope' app?? ;p

I don't want to preempt the final feature list of the first release, but some things it will very likely have:
- Deck download and sync with AnkiOnline
- Suggested rating button highlighted (as in desktop app)
- Furigana generation
- Tap screen anywhere to show answer, and tap screen anywhere to use suggested rating
- Easily change font size
- Undo
- Mark
- Bury
- Suspend

And features which are promised in updates include:
- sound and image support, with media syncing
- ability to add and edit cards

On top of that, it has a nice native iPhone interface which makes it very pleasant to study with.

I'm so getting one..

sounds pretty dope to me, nest0r

nest0r Wrote:The app is 'dropping' soon? Is it going to be a 'dope' app?? ;p

Not only that, I'm almost certain it'll be off the chizzain.

If it's possible to sync through a wireless network then I'll buy it right away, since I have big-ass ho deckz which ain't so dope for da online syncing ting.

hehe

For the record, I don't care so much because in a way it's a cool and potentially egalitarian linguistic dynamic overall, but as an observer of the human cultural condition, I just think it's hilarious to see words like 'dope' and 'drop' used in the contexts they often are--usually someone who doesn't otherwise write that way at all will use them in this matter-of-fact way that perhaps resulted from companies or bloggers or whatever appropriating slang for marketing purposes and became a kind of post-jargon techspeak someone learned by SRSing genre-appropriate language.

That unremarkable bit of wisdom thus stated, yo, I heard this hella cool game was gonna drop soon, it's sposed to have a totally dope soundtrack, and therefore I shall most certainly consider procuring it for myself, given that soon I re-up my flow.

Is 'flow' still used for money??

Nah 'flow' went out of fashion in the 90s, I believe 'cheese' (or cheese variants such as 'cheddar' or the less common 'banon de chalais') is the currently favoured vernacular. Personally, I listen to hip-hop 24/7 so it's hardly surprising that although I'm a white, well educated middle class english guy I've picked up some linguistic flava here and there, yo.

Wah? (O_0
What's all this dope going around?

For me, it's code-switching based on context. If I'm talking about something where slang feels inappropriate I immediately lose the street lingo. In a conversation where it feels natural to use the slang I do. And mine was picked up from growing up in a neighborhood where everyone talked that way.

What about 'rolex sweep', how do I use that in a sentence??

Edit: @kendo - Exactly, it just gives me the giggles to see people 'code-switch' based on informal subcultural domains, but especially when it's in this almost matter-of-fact and very ephemeral and specific way, like token slang as (marketing? blogging? something of the 'salesperson' in it, working on the commission of social currency) jargon. There's something of a trivializing masquerade at work in the latter, made all the more schadenfreudian to me due to its unwittingly deadpan nature. (It depends on the context--on forums it's just something I can joke about in a 'meta' way but when I see it on slightly more formalized websites that's when the 'schadenfreude' comes into play.)

I'm trying to think of a Japanese equivalent. Maybe if it became regular practice to use Japanese descriptives like 'kawaii' not as a genre-specific trope marker but simply to describe, say, anime characters, in a totally arbitrary and normalized way? And then to never use this word in other contexts?

I want it - if and when it gets the audio - until then I would not use it, but I am mos' def down ta 25 dolla holla at my boy resivee fo' sheezy...

TaylorSan Wrote:I want it - if and when it gets the audio - until then I would not use it, but I am mos' def down ta 25 dolla holla at my boy resivee fo' sheezy...

It is surely a striking application, a substantive and kawaii addition to the repository of current software being dopely integrated into this ever-evolving sociocultural and all too often kabuki ecology of humankind.

I thought dropping something meant to give up on it? Nevermind
Is there any more development on an Android version? Feel kinda left out, not having an iPhone .

There's a really good Android version called AnkiDroid. It's free, full featured and in the Android Market.

http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/AnkiDroid#AnkiDroid-1

Oh really! I did try it around 4-5 months ago when I first got the phone and it didn't work properly. I shall download and give it another go now thanks!

nest0r, yeah, i see that too. Of course, I find almost all marketing to be shady and fraudulent.

Blahah, would you happen to know how Resolve is making it? Has he rewritten all of it in objective-C, or is he somehow still using python? From what I hear, it's likely it won't be accepted into the appstore if there's python code in it.

Tobberoth - I recall Resolve making a statement that some parts are in portable Javascript. I assume that is running in a web view embedded in an Objective-C app.

I'm planning to buy the app. When you say it syncs with Anki Online, does that mean I can get it to sync with my desktop Anki? I don't think I've joined Anki Online yet, though I'm certainly willing to do so if that's how I should sync my desktop with my iPhone.

Groot Wrote:I'm planning to buy the app. When you say it syncs with Anki Online, does that mean I can get it to sync with my desktop Anki? I don't think I've joined Anki Online yet, though I'm certainly willing to do so if that's how I should sync my desktop with my iPhone.

Joining Anki Online is free and takes like a second, and yes, that will effectively make it so you sync your iPhone with your Desktop since both will sync to Anki Online everytime you use them.