Oct 24 2009

Aviation Android Apps Website is Live!

Category: Yawsa!MJG @ 08:25

image Android phone fans (who just happen to be aviators) rejoice! We now have our OWN aviation apps review site. No longer do you need to slog through the marketplace looking for the newest and hottest Android app to use in your plane or to prepare for your next flight.

The fine folks (ok, me) who brought you PropBlast have launched yet another site. This one, we hope, will not only give you a one stop shop to find reviews and additional information about Android apps of interest to pilots and others who fly but also a place to carry on conversations about these same apps.

The site is loosely based on the popular AviatorApps.com website that specializes in aviation apps for the iPhone platform. Not having found a similar directory for the Android platform (my preferred device) we felt that this will fill a need.

Some of the features you'll find on the site include:

  • Videos of the app in action (when ever possible)
  • image QR Codes you can scan from your phone to quickly find the app in the marketplace
  • Information about the publisher
  • Comments from other aviators
  • Tags, Categories and Search to enable either browsing for or searching for the ideal app
  • A complete roundup with links to all the reviews on a given app

We welcome one and all Avitors using the Android platform to comment on applications that we are reviewing with their thoughts and obvservations.

In the coming weeks we hope to have a comprehensive list up that will be added to as new apps come online and updates to already reviewed apps are made available.

Are you a developer of apps for the Android Platform? Please go to the Android Developers page to learn how to get your applications listed and reviewed in our site at no cost to you. If you are an advertiser who wants to tap into this market, please see our Advertisers page to learn how you can advertise your apps on our site.

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Comments

1.
Ron Ron United States says:

Very nice!  I have a feeling your site will be a oft-used resource for pilots with Android phones.  Sometimes I wish I had one, if only so I could get away from AT&T....

Regarding the G3000, I wonder if they've tested to see how the all-digital controls handle a spilled drink, a leaky windshield, or other such conditions.  I could tell you stories of how other Garmin panel mounts respond to those conditions, and it's not pretty. Smile

--Ron

2.
mjg mjg United States says:

Re: g3000, let's certainly hope so. I've not seen a mechanical knob go out yet but perhaps they are looking ahead to a day when these boxes have tens of thousands of hours on them.
btw congrats to you and flygirl!

3.
wingsfan wingsfan United States says:

I miss having my iPhone. I loved filing IFR flight plans from my phone. Had to get rid of it though... AT&T service sucks a bag of dicks.

I hope some developers start getting some droid apps out there for aviation! This sight will be used all the damn time!!

4.
wingsfan wingsfan United States says:

Foreflight just came out with a wx app for android!

http://www.foreflight.com/weather

5.
Heli_cowboy Heli_cowboy United States says:

Has anyone came up with something like Aero charts for the droid yet?

6.
mjg mjg United States says:

@Heli_cowboy
Not yet that I can find. Now that ForeFlight has added a weather app (see previous comment), hopefully we'll see them port their Charts app to the Android. Time will tell.

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