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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 Aachen »

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.

Yeah, I'm not on some locked-down apple device, I'd just like to run this on a regular Android.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by Aachen »

giantg2 wrote: post #40
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?

Didn't know of Android App Bundles yet, thanks for that pointer!

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by micromacrofoot »

kkfx wrote: post #54
micromacrofoot wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it’s fairly hard to find research participants

Anything "new" and "that demand a substantial social change" is hard, at least for start and for a not so short period of time... If no one start change never happen, if someone start...

Software developers having been calling for FLOSS for decades at this point, and it's clear that the average person will only use FLOSS if it's mandated or clearly a better product in some way. Posing a fringe ethical dilemma alone will not get it done... the vast majority of people (including people collecting data for research) do not even care a little bit. They have a long list of other problems to solve first, and if FLOSS gets in the way of any of those they'll gladly forgo it.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by figers »

83 wrote: post #59
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.

I had a lot of fun with that gps status app when I first got a smart phone - you could hold your phone up to the window while flying (to get gps signal) and see the 630mph or whatever speed you were going.

I do this with google maps even without an internet connection it shows roughly where we are in the US on a flight

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by adamsmith143 »

83 wrote: post #59
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.

I had a lot of fun with that gps status app when I first got a smart phone - you could hold your phone up to the window while flying (to get gps signal) and see the 630mph or whatever speed you were going.

I thought this was disabled above certain speeds to prevent those chips being used in Missiles?

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by giantg2 »

Aachen wrote: post #62
giantg2 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Didn't know of Android App Bundles yet, thanks for that pointer!

Basically the aab is supposed to be smaller based on utilizing shared resources. But really it seems like Google is using aab to force devs into using Google's key/ signing management. I have no idea if aab format prevents an app from being in Aurora. It was just my random guess that the format might be causing an issue.

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by yohannparis »

hansel_der wrote: post #39
maartn wrote: post #2

Wow! But which editor approved to place an iPhone while it’s only available for Android?

i suspect most ppl don't know the difference anyway. mvp is still the name of the game.

Yes, but the designer should know, and that's not professional. Even on the APP website, they use an SVG shape of an iPhone5 (5s, SE 1st Gen).

Re: Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

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Post by antattack »

nuccy wrote: post #46
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?

The idea is interesting, but there are some disadvantages of the app itself (see below). Maybe developers can read this and implement some changes. - the phone should have non-obscured view of the sky. Thus having a phone charging and logging the data while it is on the desk inside a house doesn't work that well (red or orange indicator of the measurements quality, even near a big window). - speaking of charging, the…

If obstruction is static, such when one is charging the phone, it would affect absolute values but would still provide useful relative change.
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