https://www.ianhuston.net/tag/phone/ Recent content in phone on IanHuston.net Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:03:17 +0100 https://www.ianhuston.net/2010/08/arxiv-app-for-android/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:03:17 +0100 https://www.ianhuston.net/2010/08/arxiv-app-for-android/ <p>I don&rsquo;t regularly look up new papers on my phone, preferring the ease of checking them on my desktop at work. However when travelling or attending a conference it can be very handy to be able to quickly pull up some paper you half remember in the middle of a conversation.</p> <p>As an Android user for a while now, the options were previously limited to navigating to <a href="http://arxiv.org">the arxiv website</a> which doesn&rsquo;t really scale well onto a phone screen, and manually searching for the right paper, or scanning the new list. For a while there has been an iPhone app called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311788753&mt=8">arXivew</a> which listed the latest papers and allowed you to easily download and view the one you wanted.</p> <p>Now, there is an Android app to compete.</p>