iDesign for Android

I’ve tried a number of apps looking for a 2d cad application. Autocad is very good, but overkill and I didn’t want to pay the price for my limited usage. iDesign seems to be one of the better choices. Many of the other choices are very poorly designed and buggy. It offers snaps, grids, groups, layers and coordination with iCloud and Dropbox. It even offers architectural wall healing and import from photos as a background for tracing. With offset handles, slide away toolbars, tap, double tap and drag, the interface works well on a finger driven Mobile. It gives me 90% of what I want. See the video and user guide on the developers website. As a bonus, the Mobile app will work on a M1 Android as an iOS app syncing files thru iCloud. The dedicated Android app is more capable and may be desirable if you regularly use this on the Android. However there are some omissions that you should be aware of before you spend your $8.00. There is only snap to the corners and endpoints of a shape. No mid point or center snaps. A workaround is possible with adding and changing some temporary elements. No advanced perpendicular or tangent snaps. No snap to percentage of feature. No distribute function for multiple copies You cannot copy an element or group from one file to another. You need a $12.00 / yr subscription to turn on user defined libraries. You won’t find this out until you buy the app. Boo! The coloring features are nice, best for illustration purposes, beyond my 2d cad need. Much of the power here is in mastering the possibilities with paths (bezier type curves) and the path tools. The shape Boolean operator tools are a nice feature. So all in all, one of the better choice for 2d cad.

The App would not change the dimensions stayed in CM the whole time would not let me change in to the architecture format made it seem like I needed to subscribe to get it. That did not change spent 19 dollars on nothing when all I wanted to do was draw kitchen plans for my plumber and electrician to follow. Extremely disappointed

This app either crashed or undid/deleted my work about every two minutes. Thought because I’m using a high-capacity Mobile Pro that it would run well... Evidently not. This app is terrible.

Idesign is by far the most useful vector drawing app I've purchased for the Mobile. It strikes the perfect balance between powerful tools and uncluttered user interface. It's the first app I've found that works the way I do -- the tools are intuitive and I'm only limited by my imagination in how to use them. Having onboard dimensional tools is a life-saver. As a quilt designer, my pieces have to fit together exactly and I appreciate the ability to get accurate drawings that I can then use for templates and electronic cutting machines. The app works well with its Android companion XDesign and with the Android iDesign as well. The developer is quick to respond to questions -- even when I've overlooked the answer in the manual. Thanks iDesign for a great product.

I got frustrated when I drew a series of line shapes and couldn’t close them to make the shape i wanted so i quit using the app as soon as i’d started.