Mobile Application Preferences

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Hello. I am currently in the process of rolling out a mobile application for submitting and playing interactive fiction. IF is something I’ve always liked and been interested in, and I want to share that love of IF with others. It’s been approved by google play, so it’s already in the app store, though it will probably be a few weeks before it’s indexed in search.

I’m personally pretty new to the IF community as I’ve mainly played IF games, but recently started creating my own and I thought, “There needs to be a good mobile application for this.” I discovered there were some, but I wanted to add mine into the mix to give people another avenue to share their IF.

I guess my question is, what would you like to personally see in an ideal IF mobile application? What would you not like?

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I’m not super picky. Just give me dark mode and user adjustable font sizes and I’ll be happy.

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Well, I play almost only in Android and Iphone devices.
I have played in all apps available. Between these apps I can remark Fabularium (Android) and Frotz (ios).
What are I looking for? A few things. Transcripts and Adrift games aren’t working fine in Fabularium. As a betatester I have to do some transcripts. Z-machine files works fine in Hunky punk. Glulx games works in Text fiction under Incant, but I cannot load savegames as interpreter crashes (Thunderword).
Other interpreters as Twisty, Zmpp, Jfrotz, xyzzy, audio IF… doesn’t work fine or doesn’t work at all.