Can my tablet computer be used as a drawing tablet for Affinity products running on a laptop

[William Overington]

I recently bought a tablet computer.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/tablets-and-ereaders/tablets/archos-core-70-7-tablet-16-gb-black-10183621-pdt.html

I bought it as backup in case my computer goes down so that I can order grocery home shopping.

I use the wifi link in my BT Hub for using it online.

However, having got it I am also using it to have fun trying various things such as a free app as follows.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kidspaint.kaushalmehra.drawingfun

I can draw pictures using my finger.

I can use that app offline and I can send the results to my email facility (I can send an email with the picture as an attachment) accessible from this laptop computer, either when on online, or offline and then it gets put in an outbox and goes when there is a wifi link

Anyway, I am wondering if there is any way that I can use that tablet as a way to draw using my finger directly into an Affinity product.

The laptop and the tablet each have both wifi and Bluetooth.

I appreciate that the tablet is not intended as a drawing tablet for a laptop and that such a use may not be possible, but I just wondered and thought it worthwhile asking please.

William

 

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

17 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Anyway, I am wondering if there is any way that I can use that tablet as a way to draw using my finger directly into an Affinity product.

Directly? That's extremely unlikely. Though in theory Windows or Mac drivers could be written that would allow the OS to see the device as a drawing tablet, I doubt that anyone has done that.

Indirectly: If your tablet app can produce a document in a form that Affinity can read (PDF, SVG, PNG, JPG, etc.) save a document from the tablet somewhere that Affinity can see it, and open it in Affinity.

[William Overington]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Directly? That's extremely unlikely. Though in theory Windows or Mac drivers could be written that would allow the OS to see the device as a drawing tablet, I doubt that anyone has done that.

Ah, thank you.

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Indirectly: If your tablet app can produce a document in a form that Affinity can read (PDF, SVG, PNG, JPG, etc.) save a document from the tablet somewhere that Affinity can see it, and open it in Affinity.

Yes, it can be done, though an email with an attachment is the method needed. I have already successfully sent an email from the tablet to my webmail and then the jpg file attached to the email can be downloaded from email to the local storage of my laptop computer and accessed from there by Affinity Publisher.

William

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[Alfred]

VirtualTablet looks quite promising. You might even be able to use it with an Android smartphone, and since there’s a free (ad-supported) version it will cost you nothing to find out.