Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No!

Err.. you still activate or use cargo etc in game. And there are keyboard docks for devices. Just leave it on and then you don't need to keep playing with your phone.

No functionality would change in game. It just means you can hide the info on screen and display it on the device.

I don't care what platforms they'd use, that's not the main issue at the moment

that would be pretty cool, quite a lot of popular games these days have pretty good integration with android and ios devices.

This is only my personal experience, but I have no UI item I do not interact with regularly, or that is not there when I do not use it in the first place.
The HUD (cap/SAH/mods) is in constant use and I do not see how minimizing the SAH part to a mobile device has any benefit to the player if they need to switch looking at between the main screen and a side screen. The same goes for my cargo where, in particular when I am running solo around, need to keep track of my ammo, paste or want easy access to my drugs. Having to look away from the screen and/or maximize the cargohold window everytime I want to draw something from it, has no benefits in my opinion.
Dscan/anom scan is in one window in my set up and I constantly use that as well and I also do not see any benefit having that on a separate screen or to constantly expand/collapse the menu to "save screenspace". Having to do this action continuously actually increases workload and decreases usability.
Displaying all the info on a 5 inch device is clearly going to require a lot of tab/menu switching because you cannot display things like cargo window, SAH-part of the HUD, dscan, system info, etc on the same screen at once. Unless, of course, you want not being able to read anything on them at all. Switching (ie. alt-tabbing between the parts) is unavoidable. Another problem is the orientation of the phone. Horizontal works for the HUD, maybe for the cargo, but not for the Dscan list. In all cases, unnecessary scrolling, panning, zooming and screen micromanagement is unavoidable. I also do not see any benefit at all in this that would make having UI items displayed on a side screen. It's not much different on a tablet as readability is limited and 12 inches (in fact, in most cases not more than 7 or 9 inches with a terrible resolution) do not offer a lot of screen space either. Another problem with tablets is their size. Dock them on top of the keyboard in front of your actual screen? Have fun with parts of your actual screen covered by the tablet screen. To the sides? Fancy looking away from the screen all the time and missing important things happening there. Having it laying or docked next to your keyboard or mouse? Have fun with the moving around device when you try to handle it with one hand while still managing your ship in space. In either case and on either device class, reaching to the extra device is not going to offer any benefits.

I did not even need to lengthily think about downsides of your approach, by the way, these were all things quickly jumping to my mind when I wrote the text. With a bit more thought put into it, I could come up with a couple more downsides, like lag and incoherent sync with the game.

You might want to invite some video uploaders to the conversation and ask them for opinions. However, the video uploaders that I regularly watch, have nearly no UI item they do not use at least once a minute.

All the reasons above? =) The points that I brought up are by no means only limited to me or to a small group of people and, in case you have not noticed it, I even used outstandingly large screen sizes for mobile devices.

I also do not see indecisiveness when I state that I use all my UI elements constantly and without large enough interruptions that would warrant minimizing them to the tray or some other screen. It rather seems that you suffer from poor UI management if you have so much stuff cluttering your screen, obstructing valuable screen space.

As said, I invite you to prove me wrong with some actual comments from people that you use as target group. Go ahead.

Oh you mean I should gather comments from players in a public forum or something? Good idea that.

I would most definitely use such an app to view my cargo so I can keep an eye on my cap boosters and nanite paste.
If I had a tablet I'd also use it to display dscan results to clear a large portion of space on screen.
Anyone with a multi monitor setup would not be unfamiliar with looking away from screen momentarily.

After reading the last 2 posts of yours in 2 different threads I have come to the conclusion that you're either a troll, or just plain slow.

"Display" does not equal "Interact with"

If you think a smartphone app connecting to to your PC via wireless router uses cell phone data, then you might need to do some research on the subject.

There would be no advantage gained by anyone for simply viewing information on a mobile device. It would be like saying someone who can afford a second monitor has an advantage cause they can extend their client width to save screen space.

By just clicking the open window button on the d-scanner.

I wasn't trying to solve a problem.

I think your war on Smartphones is in the wrong thread.