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Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by weugek »

Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

Android GPS API is quite a bit more low-level than in iOS. You can get data about visible satellites where as (to my understanding) in iOS you can't.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by nmstoker »

onion2k wrote: post #28
Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website Then you'd have to field all the "How do I use this file?" and "Why doesn't this work on my phone?" questions yourself.

Or you just put the apk behind a big obvious button saying "Advanced users" and a checkbox for users to affirm they are comfortable installing/working with APKs themselves, which is required before the download can start.

You might still get the questions but at least then support teams can legitimately say that kind of advice is not provided as the users agreed to handle such matters.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by simion314 »

onion2k wrote: post #28
Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website Then you'd have to field all the "How do I use this file?" and "Why doesn't this work on my phone?" questions yourself.

You put a GIANT Google Play link , and a smaller link for alternative stores that will open a plain html page dense of information and with big warnings to scare away the non-tech people.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by progbits »

weugek wrote: post #31
Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

Android GPS API is quite a bit more low-level than in iOS. You can get data about visible satellites where as (to my understanding) in iOS you can't.

Plus I think the ability to run continuous high precision location queries in the background is severely limited in ios.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by maxden »

Aachen wrote: post #25
imhoguy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here is an example of pretty stunning amount of visual detail provided by one of popular GPS data app on Android: https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/lT3TpHarUx89Z7HIf043aU... At least I can confirm it works will all navigation constellations on Samsung S10.

Link doesn't work for me and the URL is obscured for some reason. Is my guess correct that you're linking the GPSTest app?

Yeah, its the "all sensor data at a glance page" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.g...

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by peter_retief »

operator-name wrote: post #11

Interestingly the app is made in Unity. A couple of oddities, but having this leader board function was definitely an interesting idea. Sadly either my old phone's GPS is not great or my windowsill's viability to satellites just isn't great. It'll be very interesting to see the data pipelines they have to clean up the mountains of data they're going to be receiving.

Probably why I cant get any connections to my phone, from the windowsill!

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by piceas »

imhoguy wrote: post #14
nomercy400 wrote: post #7

The fact that they can use the delay of the satellite signal to predict rainfall, is pretty impressive. It immediately links this app to more data for weather prediction, which might lead to better weather predictions. I wonder how they would measure that on an android phone. Does android expose such low-level delays to the user? Is this not handled by a GNSS chip in hardware, or the OS driver/kernel?

Here is an example of pretty stunning amount of visual detail provided by one of popular GPS data app on Android: https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/lT3TpHarUx89Z7HIf043aU... At least I can confirm it works will all navigation constellations on Samsung S10.

See also on F-Droid/OsmAnd

https://gitlab.com/mvglasow/satstat

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by giantg2 »

weugek wrote: post #31
Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

Android GPS API is quite a bit more low-level than in iOS. You can get data about visible satellites where as (to my understanding) in iOS you can't.

And another reason is that some devs, like me, don't want to pay Apple $100 year to have apps on the store, especially if they're free apps.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by giantg2 »

Aachen wrote: post #24

Only on Google store, and an open source google store client (Aurora) just says "failed to fetch app details"... why is it so hard to just put an apk on your website if you actually want people to use your app? > As well as helping to create new Earth and space weather forecasting models, participants are also in with the chance to win prizes They seem to be quite keen on getting users and I'd be interested in the da…

Is this an issue with aab files not being pulled through?
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