Apple does currently not allow their iPhone/iPad users to install
any software they want, but limits them to the App store. Unfortunately
only the free YASARA View can be distributed this way easily, since the
higher YASARA stages require a license fee to fund development. Our
users pay this fee for the Linux/ MacOS/ Windows version of YASARA,
and get the Android version as a free extra. But Apple does not permit
the distribution of free extras. Since Apple also insists that all
business is done via the App store, we would effectively have to offer
YASARA there at 1.43 times the normal price (since Apple keeps 30% of
the sale, and 70% of 143% is 100%, the original price).
Apple makes it very difficult to develop for iOS on
other platforms than MacOS. But for efficiency, all our development
work is done in Linux. Google supports all major operating
systems as Android development platform.
As a summary, we currently suggest our users to go for Android. There
is a much larger number of devices to choose from, the
price/performance ratio is significantly better, and you get much more
freedom. And if you like YASARA, pick a device with Intel CPU.
The video above shows YASARA running
on the Motorola Razr i
smartphone, including a
molecular dynamics simulation with explicit solvent. It also gives some
general background information about YASARA on Android. Detailed usage
instructions can be found in the second video further below.
The video above shows YASARA running
on the Ramos W32 tablet,
providing general
YASARA usage instructions and an example for coloring protein
surfaces by electrostatic potential using a Poisson-Boltzmann
calculation. Everything works exactly the same on smartphones. Many thanks
to Steven Martin for
guiding through the movies.
The
tablet above is the Ramos W32, the world's first Intel-inside tablet, no longer on sale.