iPad app progress?

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I am really excited about roll20. It's great that you guys got off the ground with help from kick starter. I know this is just the beginning and know that one day this will change gaming forever. I was just wondering if there was any progress reports on an iPad app? Have they started? It runs great on my mac and would love to have mobile access to roll20.

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The latest update of the Google+ app on iPad claims to manage hangouts. I haven't tested it yet, but I hope that we might be able to launch Roll20 in a hangout and then join it from our iPads.

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Unfortunately as far as I know Google+ Hangouts on iPad are still video-only (you can't run Hangout Apps on mobile -- yet). We are making progress on the iPad/Android Roll20 version. RIght now the plan is to have it run in basically any mobile browser (e.g. Mobile Safari on iOS and Mobile Chrome on Android), with the caveat that there isn't any video/voice chat. Then we will roll out a native app that also supports video/voice, although it's not clear yet what devices that will be available for. If in the future G+ Hangouts on mobile devices start to support Hangout Apps, you can bet that we'll be supporting that :-)

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Thanks for he responses agemegos and Riley! Sounds great. I certainly don't mind sacrificing the video and chat for awhile for mobile play. Is there any tentative dates for release?

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It has been a couple of month now. Is there some progress for us iPad users?

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Sven A., I think it's in works, along with other features. But I'd be more concerned about seeing the "Current Subscriber Count" bar growing faster, or just growing -it's still inside the dangerous red section: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter/?minibarforum" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/account/supporter/?minibarforum</a>

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Mobile support is coming soon! Unfortunately, I can't give you any more details than that, but it's on the short list of features that the dev team will be addressing next.

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That would be awesome. I have a Galaxy Tab I would love to use for this.

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I would also be interested in this. Just found the site today and I like what I am seeing so far.

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With a Mentor account it's possible to start using Roll20 with tablets right now . I've seen it running in an iPad2, but I think it is working for Android tablets as well. It's not finished, but it works pretty well so far.

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As someone who has vast amounts of time free, but no computer access at work, having mobile playability would be amazing! My friend just started using this site to manage our games and we've been telling all our friends about it. You guys rock!

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As a mentor I've been able to access the game page using my original iPad. Quite miraculous considering the devs didn't think that would be possible.

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Alicia G said, (. . .) the devs didn't think that would be possible. Um, I didn't know they said that.

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They did. Glad to see that the iPad 1 is compatible. :)

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Oh I see now what Alicia G meant. I completely missed that she was talking about the iPad 1. It's a great achievement.

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Unfortunately I have to eat my words as I started recieving an error. :( sad

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Alicia G, Maybe that is temporary. Isn't this an alpha version after all? (Even if it's really good for an alpha!)

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Is there any idea when the iPad version becomes available to all users?

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Roll20 Team

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Unfortunately I have to eat my words as I started recieving an error. :( sad Be sure to report it on the Mentor forums and let us know what's up. The reason it didn't work for me when I tested it was Safari kept crashing, I assume because the iPad 1 has very little actual memory. So it may work for smaller campaigns but not "larger" ones...

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I have a friend in my game who has an iPhone. If he paid for a higher subscription level could he play on his laptop and login on his phone to use the video feature? We've had problems with his video compatibility in the past. He hasn't tried it on here yet but I was wondering.

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Video doesn't work on the mobile versions, at least not on mine.

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The mobile version doesn't currently support the video chat (as mobile browsers don't currently support Flash or WebRTC -- yet). However, I should say that Roll20 is really not designed to run on phones, the screen is really, really small. It works, but it's definitely not ideal, and I personally can't imagine playing a 2-hour session on my little iPhone screen. Of course to each their own.

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I run it on my phone and it works. Although I would just ask to be able to resize everything. The turn order window does the most damage in terms of visibility, our gm had to turn it off if I am on my phone. Not being able to resize the chat makes it difficult. I can read small print please let me resize everything. :)

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