MathPad EDU for Android

This is a good start on a formula creator, but needs some revisions to turn it into a polished product. I’m not a mathematician, so it’s hard for me to say how complete it is, but it works reasonably well, and if you’re knowledgeable of software and mathematical symbology, it’s fairly straightforward to find what you need. The UI is a bit clunky, and I got stuck trying to move a subscripted index value somewhere close to the value it was supposed to index; i.e., with s-sub-n, I couldn’t find a way to move the n closer to the s, which was notably annoying. (I found a workaround by exporting the formula to latex, then using an online converter to push the latex back out to a PNG image I could use in the document I was creating.) I also don’t understand the value of the Math Keyboard, though I suppose if you were doing a lot of long formulas, it might be worthwhile to learn. Overall, I think this application has serious potential, but the UI needs a lot of elbow grease to make it truly world class.

The idea of the program is great but when using it I found myself frustrated to the point of writing equations out by hand or using MS Word. There are tutorials but I did not find them very helpful. You can build fairly lengthy equations with this editor but I had immense trouble spacing the equation terms. For example, the subscripts are horrible and add extra spaces that make symbols very annoying to read. The brackets were not ideal either - very hard to be compact. Perhaps you will have better success than I did but I found the effort required for this simple program was too great. I cant believe I am saying this but I am better off using the MS Word equation editor.