Android app ideas for Ireland

uvox

other idea:

App for farmers and other rural-based workers to check animal stocks without driving or walking the fields. If animals have microchips use the geo features to automatically show, count and locate sheep, cattle, etc.

If the count was down, one was missing. If one was on somebody else's land or over a cliff, you could act.

You'd be at the mercy of Ireland's infrastructure providers though.

RISE!

uvox

Stating the obvious, but think about what apps people coming INTO Ireland might need and whether these apps could be exported. Let's not see English-language only apps. Make them multilingual.

Why aren't tourism Ireland pushing multlingual apps in Europe for finding holidays, etc, here?

Watch out for a translation solution from these guys soon: www.tethras.com

theroomisonfire

I would like to see dublin bikes app that would tell you the availability of bikes at stations over the city.

Bluefoam

There is an app for Dublin bikes. It's called veloid and is excellent.

machiavellianme

uvox wrote: »

other idea:

App for farmers and other rural-based workers to check animal stocks without driving or walking the fields. If animals have microchips use the geo features to automatically show, count and locate sheep, cattle, etc.

If the count was down, one was missing. If one was on somebody else's land or over a cliff, you could act.

You'd be at the mercy of Ireland's infrastructure providers though.

RISE!

How would you know if they had mastitis or pink eye or a broken foot or something?

Mitch Connor

machiavellianme wrote: »

How would you know if they had mastitis or pink eye or a broken foot or something?

you'd still need to check, but if you were able to set up a perimeter (based on your land owning or potential hazzards) you could look at setting up notification when an animal strayed over that area and act more quickly than you normally would be able to.

Good idea imo.

Abelloid

machiavellianme wrote: »

How would you know if they had mastitis or pink eye or a broken foot or something?

Facebook status update type thing?

Bluefoam

JustinOval wrote: »

Facebook status update type thing?

I'm not sure that cows are too good with touch screens.

uvox

Though large numbers of sheep clearly are.

The idea would just be a headcount thing really. Injured sheep and cattle tend to be easy to spot, but walking cliffs and fields in Wicklow looking for those last 2 or 3 cows on a January evening I can tell you I would have been glad of the app!

JohnK

That actually sounds like it'd be a really useful app but correct me if I'm wrong - dont the chips used in animals require a scanner to be run over them? What I mean is they wouldnt be capable of transmitting their position right? I suppose you could get transmittable tags in bulk but they’d still cost a fortune and you have the problem of keeping them powered.

robo

I would love a radio app of all the Irish stations. And maybe access to podcasts. Some great ideas on here though.

uvox

How about an innovation app? An app that rates and evaluates ideas according to disruptive potential, game-changer, duh factor, etc.? Some kind of visual display of the relative merits of ideas, rankings, maybe collaborative input from other innovators (ratings?) plus ability to submit ideas to county enteprise boards, enterprise ireland, VCs and so on. The app would need to use parameters localized for the Irish market - competitive, environmental, financial, technical, and so on.

You could call it "Going Forward"

uvox

JohnK wrote: »

That actually sounds like it'd be a really useful app but correct me if I'm wrong - dont the chips used in animals require a scanner to be run over them? What I mean is they wouldnt be capable of transmitting their position right? I suppose you could get transmittable tags in bulk but they’d still cost a fortune and you have the problem of keeping them powered.

Don't think RFID is that expensive and it's already been mooted:

http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040510/ireland___eid_sheep_ear_tags_.aspx

Regardless, you could start with the more expensive beasts (which should be tagged anyway).

Bluefoam

uvox wrote: »

How about an innovation app? An app that rates and evaluates ideas according to disruptive potential, game-changer, duh factor, etc.? Some kind of visual display of the relative merits of ideas, rankings, maybe collaborative input from other innovators (ratings?) plus ability to submit ideas to county enteprise boards, enterprise ireland, VCs and so on. The app would need to use parameters localized for the Irish market - competitive, environmental, financial, technical, and so on.

You could call it "Going Forward"

Are you talking about an app that does what this thread is doing?

KAGY

A boards.ie app for easy viewing

rushnaldo

I cant find a good pollen count app for my asthma?

Mad_Mike

@rushnaldo
Seems odd alright!
Surely somebody could take data from somewhere like here and make a nice simple pollen count app?
I have no idea how to make apps, but I'd imagine it would be very simple to do something like this

apope8

Hey guys

I was having a look at this app

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.profete162.mvforandroid/

It is a widget to show your remaining credit, Texts or data.

It currently only works on a Belgian network.

Is there anyway this can be done for meteor? or any of the other networks

dave13

theres one for meteor called mobile account checker. Works perfectly

apope8

Ares wrote: »

theres one for meteor called mobile account checker. Works perfectly

thanks for the tip, the web text works fine with that app but is it only for billpay customers? I'm on pay as you go and obviously the minutes data and texts are blank? I wonder is there any way of adding credit remaining into this app for payg customers?

Dingatron

KAGY wrote: »

A boards.ie app for easy viewing

That would be good. XDA have a great one for their forum.

Tech3

Surely an online banking app would be very useful?

dave13

An app for Dublin bikes that doesnt use layar would be great. Its very hard on layar to see if your destination is full or empty.

uvox

Agreed. A native app would be way to go.

mathew

Veloid does the trick

M450

Ares wrote: »

theres one for meteor called mobile account checker. Works perfectly

Lately I've been looking at some of the permissions required for some apps.

Why would this one need to access "Your personal information - read contact data" and "Your messages - edit SMS or MMs, read SMS or MMS"

seems very strange...

dave13

mathew wrote: »

Veloid does the trick

Thanks, seems to do the job

dave13

M450 wrote: »

Lately I've been looking at some of the permissions required for some apps.

Why would this one need to access "Your personal information - read contact data" and "Your messages - edit SMS or MMs, read SMS or MMS"

seems very strange...

you can send webtexts from it too. Thats why it needs the above permissions. just press menu and webtext.

Mr. Rager

Don't know if its mentioned before, but a gaa livescore/news app would be a great inclusion to the market.

mkennedy

JustinOval wrote: »

Facebook status update type thing?

Moospace?