The phone and tablet catch up, and a browser of their own
Sending mail from the phone with a fingerprint, the journal’s quick ask and PIN on every device, a Claude terminal, and links that open in Sketchbook’s own light browser.
Three Android releases went out on 10 October. The first closed the last gaps between the devices and the web; the second gave the app a browser of its own; the third was a one-line fix.
1.2.0: five features the devices were missing
- Share links can now be created, refreshed and revoked from the tablet and the phone, not only from the web.
- The journal’s quick ask works on the devices: a question about a journal page, asked in its own private session.
- Set or change the journal PIN from a device that has been granted journal access.
- The Claude terminal runs on the devices too.
- Send mail from the device. This one needed real care, because the rule is that mail leaves only when a person presses Send, never because software decided to.
Here is how a device keeps that rule. Each tablet or phone holds its own signing key inside the phone’s secure hardware, where it cannot be copied out. The key is approved from the web before it can be used, and every use asks for a fingerprint or the screen lock. When you press Send, the app signs the exact message you confirmed: recipients, subject, body and attachments. The server sends that content or nothing. If anything changed between your confirmation and the send, even an attachment added in the meantime, the send is refused and the draft reloads so you can look again. Claude cannot send mail by any route.
Later that day the web’s Send got the same guarantee: the browser sends the content it showed you, and the server sends exactly that or refuses.
1.3.0: a light browser inside the app
Tapping a link in a page, in Claude’s answer, in an email or in the Claude chat now opens it in Sketchbook’s own light browser rather than throwing you out to another app. Plain web addresses written as text became tappable links too.
The browser runs apart from the rest of the app, with its own cookies, storage and cache, so the web pages you visit never get near Sketchbook’s own sign-in. A web page cannot launch another app on its own; leaving the browser always takes a tap. It follows the app’s theme (dark by default) and has a “Save to Sketchbook” button that uses the same capture as the share sheet, so the page is kept along with where it came from. A setting turns it off, and another clears its browsing data. The car screen keeps its “open on the phone” message instead: no browsing while driving.
1.3.1
Only tablets are locked to landscape now. Phones follow their own rotation.