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APRSdroid – APRS for Android

APRSdroid is an Android application for pushing your current GPS coordinates (and maybe also messages, some day) to the APRS-IS network.

APRSdroid is Open Source Software written in Scala.

Feel free to join #aprsdroid on FreeNode!

Project News

The rumors about APRSdroid's death are greatly exaggerated. Release 1.0 will be released to Android Market in the next month(s?) and will allow you to support the App’s development financially. You can get a glimpse of the current development already.

Also, feel free to donate old Android handsets :)

Download

Get it on the Market

APRSdroid builds and release versions are available from the download repository

Once you have downloaded the software, check the settings page for hints on its configuration.

Contribute

If you want to compile APRSdroid, visit the Developer page!

We have created an APRSdroid translation project at launchpad. You can now help translate APRSdroid into your mother tongue!

The default APRS icons are really ancient. A remake of the set in scalable SVG (which would look good even scaled down to 12×12 pixels) would be really awesome.

Screenshots

State of Development

This project is in a beta phase. Plans exist to release version 1.0 to the Android market in the first half of 2011.

Features

The following features are supported by APRSdroid:

  • Creation of APRS position reports
  • Post packets using HTTP, UDP, TCP or AFSK via speaker
  • Configuration dialog for callsign, update period, server
  • Send speed + direction + altitude if available
  • Posted on some Markets: SlideME AndAppStore
  • Log window for previous tracks
  • Map view of neighbor stations (so far only with TCP)
  • Display status bar notification when in background

TODO for versions 1.x

  1. Settings profiles (walking / driving / …; storing the SSID, icon and update ranges)
  2. Add a night mode theme
  3. Graphical selector for the APRS icon
  4. Change distance and interval to sliders (would fix crash on invalid input as well)
  5. Implement smart beaconing
  6. Bluetooth TNC support
  7. use soundcard for RX (TX works already)
  8. Stop logging on low battery

TODO for version 2.0

  1. Digipeater mode
  2. Multiple parallel backends
Add a custom footer
Add a custom sidebar

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