New Rude Practice Pad version - Play in portrait mode

Available now on Google Play: Rude Practice Pad release 0.15.0. This version allows the rudiment training app to be used in both portrait and landscape mode, on phones as well as tablets. It is also updated to fully support the latest Android flavors.

• Show and play all 40 official drum rudiments, with name and order according to PAS (Percussive Arts Society).
• Show and play 100 of the most common hybrid rudiments.
• Show and play 96 classic Stick Control exercises.
• Show and play exercises and warm-ups like the famous lifetime, pyramid and stone killer sequences. 
• Let you select different snare drum sounds for the playback. 
• Visually indicate where you are in the pattern, synchronized with the built-in metronome.
• Suggest rhythms to practice, including a “Rudiment of the day” feature.
• Sort and list rudiments according to the essential, original, standard, the quadrants etc.
• Allow tempo adjustments between 20 and 240 BPM.
• Link to textual descriptions and instructional videos showing all the 40 official rudiments, on pad and examples applied to drum set.

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Mail of the month - September - How much songs can you store?

I've been using Fakebook Pro on a Samsung 12.2-inch tablet for a couple of years now. It has been a godsend!  Thank your for your programming efforts.My database has now reached 4.5 GB in size.  I'm using "Commander One" to copy my manual database backups to my Mac, since "Android File Transfer" on the Mac is limited to 4 GB files.This solution works well, but I'm wondering if Fakebook Pro will reach a limit to the size of the database. If so, can you tell me what that limit is?

This is a really interesting question! While I know there are many users out there with database sizes on par with your, my personal song library is not that huge yet.
But, the data is stored in an SQLite database and this database has a size limit of 140 TB. The EXT4 file system used on must Android devices has a 16 TB file size limit (older versions had a 2 TB limit).
I guess the transfer issue you noticed had to do with the FAT32 limitation (4 GB) of the SD card. On Android 6 and above, which handle extFAT SD cards, this should not be a problem.

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