Android for Aviators

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Android for Aviators

Postby ninelima » Thu Dec 14, 2017 4:49 pm

Kwik EFIS - Current Release 3.10
Due to a common request and with some help from the XCSoar project, I have implemented a High Contrast themes for the Kwik EFIS suite.

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It should improve the screen readability in direct sunlight on some Android devices. This release also has the fully terrain aware DMAP. YELLOW indicate less then 1000ft and RED less then 100ft. Use the simulator to play around with the application and get a feel for how this works.

Auto Zoom is also now also finally functional and is enabled with a horizontal swipe. Zooming IN and OUT (with a vertical swipe) disables auto zoom.

Data Pacs
The initial data pac for South America, Panama to Argentina, (data.pan.arg) has finally been released. It should be available on F-Droid in a few days. Check https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/player.efis.data.pan.arg

Work In Progress
Work is currently underway to port the Kwik EFIS to an E-Ink readers (Kobo etc). This is however still a ways off from public release. In the mean time, please do have a look at XCSoar. While it is intended mainly for our gliding brethren, it is nevertheless an awesome piece of work.

Download Details
I develop and maintain a small suite of aviation related of Android applications named Kwik EFIS.
It is distributed under a Free and Open Source (FOSS) license in the hope that it would be useful to fellow flyer's.

The Current work in progress candidates (unsigned) are always available, from:
http://ninelima.org/efis/download.html

All artifacts of Kwik EFIS are also released to F-Droid for FOSS certification, signing and distribution.
https://f-droid.org/packages/player.efis.pfd/
https://f-droid.org/packages/player.efis.mfd/
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Kwik EFIS Release 21

Postby ninelima » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:53 am

There has been a fairly major update to the Kwik EFIS apps, now it provides full integration with Stratux ADS-B/AHRS. The Stratux device enables full ADS-B traffic and a pretty decent AHRS virtually for no money.

Here is a little write-up: http://ninelima.org/efis/stratux/.
Flight test:
[YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Vnk_rdSzI[/YouTube]

Kwik EFIS can be grabbed from the ususal places:
Homepage:
http://ninelima.org/efis/ and

All artifacts of Kwik EFIS are also released to F-Droid for FOSS certification, signing and distribution.
https://f-droid.org/packages/player.efis.pfd/
https://f-droid.org/packages/player.efis.mfd/
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Re: Android for Aviators

Postby ninelima » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:00 am

I am pleased to announce a new addition to the Kwik lineup of free EFIS products.

Kwik Composite is now available through F-Droid. This app is a combined composite display of Kwik EFIS and Kwik DMAP. Displaying the primary flight display and the moving map on a single device.

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=kwik&lang=en

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Re: Android for Aviators

Postby ninelima » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:00 am

I am pleased to announce a new addition to the Kwik lineup of free EFIS products.

Kwik Composite is now available through F-Droid. This app is a combined composite display of Kwik EFIS and Kwik DMAP. Displaying the primary flight display and the moving map on a single device.

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=kwik&lang=en

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Re: Android for Aviators

Postby ninelima » Mon Nov 30, 2020 7:11 am

It has been a bit of a slog, but the latest Kwik suite of EFIS Android apps has completed FOSS certification.
Certified and Signed copies are now available on FDroid.

Version 6.0 is a major release which brings a few new goodies:

* Implement OpenWeatherMap precipitation overlay on maps
* Improved ADS-B traffic display
* Generic aircraft instead of individual
* Performance enhancements

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The best way is to use the FDroid app https://f-droid.org/en/
or otherwise download from the usual sources:

Homepage:
http://ninelima.org/efis/download.html

FDroid:
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=kwik&lang=en

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