GEDitMobile is a companion iPhone and iPad app for working with GEDitCOM II. GEDitMobile allows you to carry all your genealogy data with you on your mobile devices (Android and Windows coming soon too). This app currently displays all data and in the future will allow editing as well. Below are some features of GEDitMobile and how it works well with GEDitCOM II.
See below for instructions of exporting data from GEDitCOM II for uploading to GEDitMobile. For details on obtaining GEDitMobile and then using it with your GEDitCOM II data, see the separate GEDitMobile web site.
Data transfer back in forth between your computer and GEDitMobile and between GEDitCOM II and GEDitMobile is done by using GEDCOM files stored in DropBox (which is a free cloud disk server if you do not have it already). To transfer genealogy data from GEDitCOM II to GEDitMobile, use the following steps:
in GEDitmobile, you can view virtually all genealogy data transferred from GEDitCOM II. You can even make some changes and transfer back (through a GEDCOM import) to GEDitCOM II. Once you have prepared you file as explained above, you open it in GEDitMobile as follows:
If you make changes in GEDitMobile, you can save the changes, copy the file back to DropBox, and then import that GEDCOM file back into GEDitCOM II (if needed, change the extension to .ged before importing).