MathStudio for Android

The older version of this program was very useful, almost like a calculator. Although some of the aformention functionality has been changed, it is not necessarily a bad thing; it only means that the user has to re-educate his or herself with regard to its new format. I initially had some problems with the program but the deloper was quick to both update the program and offer me some very helpful suggestions. Becuase I have not fully utilized and checked the complete functionality of this program, I am rating it 4 stars. I hope that after I fully explore all the commands, graphing, and its other abilities, I will be able to give the program 5 stars.

Pomegranate appears to have fixed whatever ailed the version 7 interface, it appears to work as nicely as versions 5 & 6. I’m revising my rating to reflect my overall satisfaction and enjoyment of this package. I’m working on being able to “roll my own” mathamatical software in Python, but still enjoy this flexible and approachable tool. The learning curve is drastically easier than Sage albeit less powerful. I’m happy to see it it running well again.

I loved version 5 of MathStudio. This version has great potential, but doesn’t quite reach it. At the very least, it should retain all of the functionality of the previous version. It’s a bit disconcerting to find functions that work just fine in version 5 give a message of:”Error: this function is not yet implemented”. What is that? I’m surprised and disappointed in the developer.

There are a lot of welcome improvements over version 5. I especially like the new interface. One problem is that the “toggle sidebar” menu item does not always work. It would also be nice if this had a keyboard shortcut. There are also fewer options now, which does make the interface cleaner. Colors are now relegated to inline commands, which allows for greater flexibility. I do think there should be few more options available. One simple thing I have run across so far is changing an output from a fraction to a decimal. In MathStudio 5, if you pressed enter and the output was a fraction, a second press of “enter” would give you a decimal. This feature is gone in MathStudio 6 and I miss it.