the one thing i miss from wire (messaging app) is being able to doodle things and send as messages
is there anything like that for other apps on android? maybe something that hooks into the file upload (where you can already pick "gallery" or "camera")
now that i have a phone with a stylus more than ever i want to effortlessly send doodles to discord and telegram
i miss the times when we did more with a 128mb RAM windows ME machine than we do today with 8gb RAM ARM microcomputers in our pockets
the only ways i can find now to send a quick drawing to someone else on a phone is by buying into a whole another messaging app and convince others to use it too. i don't want that! literally every other messaging app i already have is already perfectly capable of sending images, it's just that the pipeline of drawing an image and uploading it through to the app is way more convoluted than it needs to be! i should be able to just draw on my screen where the keyboard is and send it as an image!
you can already copy images, they show up in the clipboard in gboard, and you can paste them into a text box to send that image on most messaging apps already. this flow already exists. just nobody thought to make something where you can draw on it instead
@mavica_again I wish openboard would enable this
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This is a function of the keyboard app. Any messenger that allows pasting images from the keyboard can support stickers, screenshots, and drawings. Maybe even non-image files!
After a quick search, I don't see any keyboard that supports that, but maybe the results are just biased to only show Gboard.
Here's my petition to add a drawing button to Gboard, or for someone to make a keyboard that does support it!
it's fascinating how more boring, less creative and interactive, computing has been for the past 20 years. we used to be able to do this sort of thing (send quick doodles without having to open up 2-3 separate programs) in MSN messenger for crying out loud. now we're pocketing supercomputers that can barely open up and share an image without going through contrived pipelines