We are planning to make an Android-only release with a few critical fixes. Could you please help us with testing if the packages work fine on your devices and if the crashes are gone?
One of the most frequent crashes on Android was caused by background saving going wrong. We’ve overhauled the saving service, fixing crashes when Krita was being shut down or when it is inactive in the background. To reproduce the issue one should have done the following steps:
Create an image and draw something
Minimize the app switching into app selection Android menu
[very quickly] Swipe Krita away form the screen.
If these steps done quickly enough, Krita would silently crash, losing the autosave information. With the new fixes, no crash should happen and next time you open Krita, it should provide you the recovery dialog [1].
Transform tool now supports touch
Krita is updated to support Android 15 and 16K-pages-feature. If you have an Android 15 device with 16K support, you can enable it and test the new package. It should theoretically consume a bit less RAM. Here are the instructions how to enable 16K-pages support on your device: https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes#developer-option
[1] - We plan to change the way how Krita saves images on Android with its sandboxed environment. We want to always save the images into Krita’s local folder and make sure that they are always saved, i.e. that no saving operation would be needed. That is how most of the Android apps are supposed to work. You can follow the discussion here.
I initially tried to reproduce with 5.2.11 (git a4da714), I never lost autosave data but crashes happened when I tried several times, autosave dialog recovered everything as expected though. Unfortunately if this was the issue same happened constantly on this 5.2.12 build shared here as well.
Transform tool with touch seems to work quite well when touch drawing is enabled.
I don’t have a google device, as far as I could tell samsung didn’t have this on android 15, I might have missed it in dev options though I am not %100 sure.
Personally I dislike how most android apps save locally, it makes backing up a huge pain, especially with Android limitations of where you can access, I think “sketches folder” is the right idea if I understand it correctly. I like how CSP does it, it basically creates a folder named “Clip Studio Paint” in documents folder and auto saves there unless otherwise specified. It could be the same with “Krita” folder under “Documents” where we can just copy the entire folder for backup if needed locally and krita would have default saving area, I actually wanted to pitch this idea, happy to see it being discussed already
I’ve got and Android 13 tablet and I’m wondering about testing the release. Can this be done without harming the already installed version that I depend on?
If you need to keep the installed version untouched, then you’d better try the nightly stable builds. They are technically the same, but with a different signature.
You are relying on a released version or a version from Play Market or a nightly version?
It seems like there is no major issues with this release, so I’ll just start unrolling the release on all Android devices this week! Thank you very much for the testing!
Amazing I just got an XP-pen magic note pad on wednesday and installed Krita on it (from play store).
I had crasches when switching workspaces (I made one where all tools/layers etc are in the top for portrait and my regular set up with stuff at the side for landscape). Switching between them made Krita freeze, crash and lose the file.
I don’t know if you had the new version rolled out then, if it’s the old It might already be solved with the changes
I’d love to test android version but I’m too android-ignorant to know how to install stuff outside the store, and I’m not at all used to draw on a tablet.
I noticed Krita did not accept the xp-pen as an s-pen. Probably not weird, but I got curious as to how they differ.
Bonjour. avec joie , j’ai découvert Krita sur Android. Je suis un utilisateur occasionnel, sur pc, je suis nouveau sur le FAC, et c’est temps si je veux me mettre à la Bd.
C’est une bagarre pour pouvoir l’utiliser , interface surdimensionné, ( Galaxy Note 20) . Impossible même avec le stylet de déplacer le curseur de navigation . quand il y a réussite après multiple abondons. En ne peux déplacer l’interface sans malheureusement écrire avec ses doigts. Vu qu’il n’a pas de contrôle ( pas d’interface stylet uniquement).
Dommage car sur mon temps de trajet, j’aurais aimer pouvoir continuer mes travaux sans pour autant, passer par d’autre application
I’ve managed to adjust the android app so I feel okay with it, once the crashes stop. A more tablet-friendly UI would be nice but I can wait. Hopefully XP-pen or Huion releases some improved generations of drawing tablets with full pen-display styluses by then too. I like the xp-pen note pad, though it doesn’t feel like a power house and the stylus has an anoyingly round design.. (should have gone for the drawing pad).
Hello. I was delighted to discover Krita on Android. I am an occasional user on PC, I am new to FAC, and it’s time for me to get into comics.
It’s a struggle to use it, the interface is oversized (Galaxy Note 20). Even with the stylus, it’s impossible to move the navigation cursor. When I do manage to do so after multiple attempts, I can only move the interface by writing with my fingers. Since there is no control (no stylus interface only).
It’s a shame because I would have liked to be able to continue my work during my commute without having to use another application.
Buddy this version is also out on google play right? But why not on official krita website? In the “apks section”? And also the community monthly news isn’t out as well what is going on? When will they be added?
Yeah, I’ve rolled out the version in Play Market, since it makes the situation better for a lot of users. We have a plan to start rolling out one more version next week, so I completely forgot about the post, I’m sorry.
Thank you so much for replying and for the android version, but the “storage” you provided has the 5.2.12 version of but not the main website “apk section” in download tab it is still 5.2.11 why? I mean the whole download section on Android is still showing to download 5.2.11 and redirects to the storage where only 5.2.11 is available. Can you make changes please? And once again thank you buddy I appreciate your reply.
We will update it directly to 5.2.13 next week. We don’t want to make confusing releases one right after another. 5.2.13 will (probably) fix the original bug in a more thorough way.
