If I may... I'd like to see one of the buttons assigned to minimizing the map and bringing up the legs of your flight plan. Would save a ton of trees!

 

Tapped from my G-Nex...

 

 

That's a great idea. I'll keep that in mind. What other information would you like to see on that screen along with the legs of the flight plan? That feature would fit in great in one of the open spots 

I'm still working on finalizing the new Gauge drop down. My beta testers don't like how much space it eats up when it is down so I've been playing with different ideas to resolve it like sliding the map down, using transparencies, tilting the map, etc. None of the changes worked very well due to such a small amount of area for the map view when the gauges are visible. One of my beta testers has a really good idea that I'm going to try tho. Will see how that works out. Over all the beta tests are going really well and as soon as I work out the design for the gauge drop down I should be releasing the update. 

 

The next release is a huge release from a bug fix and device support standpoint. I have completely rewritten all of the networking code from the launch page. I finally have it a way that I like and it should be much more user friendly. I have also completely redone every single screen layout that FlightMap supports. This was a huge undertaking and is taking a while to test but this change will make FlightMap far more resilient to custom roms and different device hardware. It really is amazing how many configurations there are out there for android tablets.

There were some reports of FlightMap crashing with the latest release version if the "gps" button is selected when FlightConnect does not have the complete flight plan from the simulator. This can happen if FlightConnect is not running when the flight plan is loaded. This issue is now fixed. If users want to see the full flight plan mapped in FlightMap, FlightConnect must be running when the flight plan is loaded in the simulator. FlightConnect is written to function as a service so it can remain running at all times. It uses very little memory. 

 

More info on this update can be found here: 

http://vineripesoftware.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/flightmap-2-6-1-release-to-the-play-store/

 

The update should be pushed to your tablet automatically but if it does not just click this link on the tablet to load up the play store and click update.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrs.flightmap

 

I am sorry to any users that were inconvenienced by this issue.

Thanks for working on this!

 

C.

Looking good. Thanks

Just as a side note, you might want to update your video on the side for walkthrough and features which uses 1.7 and your at 2.6 already

I've been meaning to do some new videos with the new features and new tablet support. I'm still recovering from surgery so hopefully I'll be able to do some new ones soon. I think I really need to beef up my documentation as a whole. Just take a ton of time :-)

 

 

I'm still recovering from surgery

 

All the best in your recovery

Looks good.  Will this work on a "Kindle" from Amazon?

FlightMap does not work on the kindle because the kindle family of tablets do not have access to the Google Api's that FlightMap uses to do the mapping. There are not a lot of mapping options for android outside of Google's offering.

 

My new application called FlightGauge does not use any platform specific api's so I am hoping to make it available on the kindle fire.

 

If I an find an alternative to Google maps to use for FlightMap I may be able to eventually bring it over but it would be quite a bit of work. I'm not sure when I would have the ability to do that.

All the best in your recovery

Thanks, I do appreciate it. Been a rough few months but getting better.

Just to let you know that the latest version works perfectly on my Samsung Galaxy 8.9" tablet. No issues to report.

Many thanks for a great app.

Dave

I am really glad to hear that. I've only been able to simulate 8 inch tablets at this point so it's great to hear it's working. I really want to get one as I find the 7 inch tablets to small for me and the 10 inch ones to big. I bet that is a perfect size.

This works a treat on my Nexus 7 and love using it. The only problem is of course now I want a bigger one :(

I will definitely buy. Keep us updated mate!

This works a treat on my Nexus 7 and love using it. The only problem is of course now I want a bigger one :(

 

I've got 5 tablets right now for the work on FlightMap and now I want more. I use the nexus 7 the most but all of them have a different use Somehow it's addicting buying them. I've also got chromecast, some android tv dongles, and other stuff like that. Now that the things are so cheap it's easy. Now to figure out how to add all of this stuff to my simpit and create apps for them With FlightGauge I'll have covered 2, I guess a radio panel and something else...