Inky - Run Inkscape on Android

UserLAnd Technologies

About this app

This really is Inkscape ™ running on your device. It is full featured and professionally supported.

Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Other formats can be imported and exported.

Inkscape can render primitive vector shapes (e.g. rectangles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, spirals, stars and 3D boxes) and text. These objects may be filled with solid colors, patterns, radial or linear color gradients and their borders may be stroked, both with adjustable transparency. Embedding and optional tracing of raster graphics is also supported, enabling the editor to create vector graphics from photos and other raster sources. Created shapes can be further manipulated with transformations, such as moving, rotating, scaling and skewing.

How to use this Inky Android app:

Use it just like normal. But here are some specifics to the Android interface.
* Tap with one figure to left click.
* Move mouse by sliding around one finger.
* Pinch to zoom.
* Press and hold and then slide one finger to pan (useful when zoomed in).
* Slide two fingers up and down to scroll.
* If you want to bring up a keyboard, tap on the screen to get a set of icons to appear and then click the keyboard icon.
* If you want to do the equivalent to a right click, tap with two fingers.
* If you want to change the desktop scaling, find the service android notification and click the settings. You have to stop and restart the app after changing this settings for it to take effect.
This is all easier to do on a tablet and with a stylus, but it can be done on a phone or using your finger as well.

To access files from the rest of Android, there are many useful links in your home directory (/home/userland) to places like your Documents, Pictures, etc. No need to import or export files.

If you don't want to, or cannot pay the cost of this app, you can run Inkscape via the UserLAnd app.

Licensing:

This app is released under the GPLv3. The source code can be found here:
https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/Inkscape

The icon is made from the Inkscape Logo which is licenced CC-By-SA 3.0. The original author is Andrew Michael Fitzsimon.

This app is not created by the main Inkscape development team. Instead it is an adaptation that allows the Linux version to run on Android.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using Inky on my Stylus 2023 without any issues, but since switching to the Motorola Razr and Stylus 2024, I've encountered some problems. The app shows my folders, but the files inside are never visible. As a paid app, I would appreciate it if the development team could address these issues soon, as it's been several months without a resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I've desperately wanted a good vector editor on Android for years, something 'Inkscapey.' I'm flabbergasted to get it. Yes, it's an ancient version, and requires figuring out an even more precise finger ballet to use the ui, while simultaneously trying to draw. Takes some getting used to. I've managed to draw, move, and size a filled rectangle on a 6" screen so far, but I've also opened some fairly complicated Inkscape drawings (331 objects) that are 5 years old, and they render perfectly. .flab

Absolutely silly. the greatest common reoccurrence with most recent apps developed and especially the AI prompts are without a doubt, as proclaimed by the issuer, faulty. i do not understand the force driving the individual who knows well enough which apps are just not meant for a mobile cellular battery/device. battery/ device lacks the key ingredient being capacitance

What’s new

Restore access to files outside of the Inky.
Those files can be accessed from the Inkscape file browser at /sdcard/
For example, /sdcard/Pictures will be your Android Pictures directory