I know you said android, but I use an iPad Pro and am quite happy with it. The biggest thing affecting drawing performance is pad-to-screen latency, and Apple has actual experts that have spent a lot of time on that problem at the OS and hardware level—I don’t think android is well set up to achieve anything similar because of OS/hardware disintegration.
It’s hardly in the same league but I use a Boox Note (which is android tablet with an epaper display and a wacom digitiser) and provided an app uses their SDK you can get perfectly acceptable performance. It’s just unfortunate that the only things that seem to use that SDK are their own apps. Everyone else’s apps are unusable for drawing.
I bought it for the ‘paperless office’ paradigm and it is the first device I’ve had that actually does that task well enough to ditch paper. That I can draw on it is a supplementary function for me, if it’s good enough for diagrams then that’s okay for me.
Seconding the Boox Note as being a very good device I’m overall pleased with.
(I have the large 13 inch Boox Note Max which makes reading papers very bearable, and it can do file drop via local wifi.)
Have you tried syncing apps? I use them sync note templates, sync my notes, and to occasionally print to the device.
The other thing that makes life easier is a soft keys app. The notes app is fullscreen and that stops app switching (which is annoying).
There are a ton of quality of life and feature enhancements that boox could easily put into these devices to increase their utility. These things could supplement or replace printers in plenty of corporate environments but I never see them pitched that way. If I had the brains, money, and motivation I could probably make a business doing exactly that by rewriting the software on the devices to suit business use better.
I know you said android, but I use an iPad Pro and am quite happy with it. The biggest thing affecting drawing performance is pad-to-screen latency, and Apple has actual experts that have spent a lot of time on that problem at the OS and hardware level—I don’t think android is well set up to achieve anything similar because of OS/hardware disintegration.
It’s hardly in the same league but I use a Boox Note (which is android tablet with an epaper display and a wacom digitiser) and provided an app uses their SDK you can get perfectly acceptable performance. It’s just unfortunate that the only things that seem to use that SDK are their own apps. Everyone else’s apps are unusable for drawing.
I bought it for the ‘paperless office’ paradigm and it is the first device I’ve had that actually does that task well enough to ditch paper. That I can draw on it is a supplementary function for me, if it’s good enough for diagrams then that’s okay for me.
Seconding the Boox Note as being a very good device I’m overall pleased with. (I have the large 13 inch Boox Note Max which makes reading papers very bearable, and it can do file drop via local wifi.)
Have you tried syncing apps? I use them sync note templates, sync my notes, and to occasionally print to the device.
The other thing that makes life easier is a soft keys app. The notes app is fullscreen and that stops app switching (which is annoying).
There are a ton of quality of life and feature enhancements that boox could easily put into these devices to increase their utility. These things could supplement or replace printers in plenty of corporate environments but I never see them pitched that way. If I had the brains, money, and motivation I could probably make a business doing exactly that by rewriting the software on the devices to suit business use better.