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Sketch Mirror 2.0 — Preview your Sketch designs on your iOS devices.
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At last! Wow, the multi-artboard view is fantastic. Love the new design. USB connection is blazing fast. Great, long-awaited update.
@mediakik Skala Preview does the job very well for Android, and it’s free. https://bjango.com/mac/skalaprev...
Off-topic, but I just hijack this thread now:
Can someone explain me the context, why Sketch seems to put on zero effort to bring their tool to Windows or Linux?
Apple deal?
Once AXD will copy the limited capabilities of sketch, the MAC market will crumble a bit for them. So they should search for growth and there is that Windows market, which comes with a huge target audience share.
@andmitsch Pretty certain they have no deal with Apple, doesn't happen often for OS X software. They're aa fairly small team, ~5 people iirc, so no Windows version probably comes down to the huge amount of work for a rewrite.
It relies on OS X frameworks & features, down to the Quartz graphics layer/rendering engine (the main porting pain), Auto Save, and Versions (you'd want the same features on Windows, so that'd mean manually creating versions of these too). Plus it fits OS X UI patterns (and feels quick and native unlike Adobe's cross platform apps), which might need to be tweaked.
Honestly, I reckon Bohemian Coding are making a good amount of revenue from Sketch though. Seems like it gets mentioned or used in a lot of places (loads of paid/free resources for Sketch, even FB have free design resources in PS & Sketch formats; plugin community is huge)
The feature set isn't anything special. It's easy to copy - Photoshop has been doing what Sketch has been for years (mostly), for example. It's more the speed, one-off price, and some minor feature differences.
@iamsebj While Photoshop might have the same features as Sketch, it's a pain to do screen layouts - too many modes. It's a lot faster and easier to do them in Sketch. Also Photoshop doesn't support symbols which are essential for UI design and wireframing. Sketch is closer to Fireworks than Photoshop. It's a well thought out app from a UX perspective.
@markhorgan I completely agree. My comment was probably too long, but I'm a strong advocate for Sketch. Didn't compare to Fireworks purely because I completely forgot about it (and it's discontinued).
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