Feedback on my first personal Android app - Flight Check Ireland

Atomic Pineapple

Firstly thanks to mikedragon32 for allowing me to post this.

I've just published my first Android application today, I've been working on Android for awhile but in a more low level manner that doesn't allow me to create apps as such.

So I've started some personal apps to build up my portfolio for potential future work/employment.

I was wondering if people could take a short bit of their time to download the app, give it a bit of use and give me some constructive feedback on the application.

The app is a flight checker for the major Irish airports that displays the arrivals and departure times for the major airports on the island of Ireland.

I'm interested in peoples feedback on the app and any improvements they think might be a good idea.

Hopefully it might be useful to some of the travel forums users in some way

Heres the link - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mammothtooth.flightinfo

Thanks

mikedragon32

Looks great. Only issue for me was that when i attempted to open the Google map for each airport, i just got a grey grid with no mapping, just the tile which presumably indicates the airport location.

Using Samsung Galaxy wifi 5.0

Atomic Pineapple

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Looks great. Only issue for me was that when i attempted to open the Google map for each airport, i just got a grey grid with no mapping, just the tile which presumably indicates the airport location.

Using Samsung Galaxy wifi 5.0

Interesting there should be no issue loading the map. You definitely had an Internet connection?

mikedragon32

Yep. Launched as soon as it installed!

mikedragon32

Did a restart and it's working fine now, maps appearing for all airports.

Might be a nice touch if an option was given on the maps to work out a route from current location but otherwise, it's nifty app. I'll keep it onboard!

Atomic Pineapple

mikedragon32 wrote: »

Did a restart and it's working fine now, maps appearing for all airports.

Might be a nice touch if an option was given on the maps to work out a route from current location but otherwise, it's nifty app. I'll keep it onboard!

Yes I'd love to do something like that but I think its tricky to do I will however research it and see what I can do.

The Corinthian

"Not compatible with your device."

Now, I've got a Defy, running 2.2.2, so if it's not able to run on this, I suspect you've just cut out a big chunk of the market, because my phone is not exactly out of the ordinary where it comes to Android smartphones presently out there.

What's your minimum SDK level? What screen resolutions are you catering for? Are you using something specific that may be making this incompatible with what are pretty common device specs?

Atomic Pineapple

The Corinthian wrote: »

"Not compatible with your device."

Now, I've got a Defy, running 2.2.2, so if it's not able to run on this, I suspect you've just cut out a big chunk of the market, because my phone is not exactly out of the ordinary where it comes to Android smartphones presently out there.

What's your minimum SDK level? What screen resolutions are you catering for? Are you using something specific that may be making this incompatible with what are pretty common device specs?

Interesting, it's min SDK is 2.1 and all screen resolutions are catered for. I'm not using anything out of the ordinary either.

These are the required features:

android.hardware.location.network
android.hardware.location
android.hardware.location.gps
android.hardware.touchscreen
android.hardware.screen.portrait

The Defy shows up as a supported device in my developer console too!

Is the Defy lacking in any of those features?

The Corinthian

draffodx wrote: »

Is the Defy lacking in any of those features?

Nope, it has all of those. Have you imposed geographical restrictions (e.g. that it is only available in Ireland)?

Another possibility is that the Market has not fully 'published' it yet - it can be a little buggy that way.

Atomic Pineapple

The Corinthian wrote: »

Nope, it has all of those. Have you imposed geographical restrictions (e.g. that it is only available in Ireland)?

Another possibility is that the Market has not fully 'published' it yet - it can be a little buggy that way.

Yeh, Ireland and UK only for now, where are you located?

The Corinthian

draffodx wrote: »

Yeh, Ireland and UK only for now, where are you located?

In neither

Atomic Pineapple

The Corinthian wrote: »

In neither

Phew, thats why then you had me worried!! If you want to have a look pm me your country and I'll open it up for it.

MOH

draffodx wrote: »

Yes I'd love to do something like that but I think its tricky to do I will however research it and see what I can do.

Either you've implemented that quickly or I've got the wrong app? Works for me.

Weather's not working for me though - just says 'null degrees celsius' and everything else is blank.
Other thing that struck me was that the list of flight all started from 4 hours ago , leaving me having to scroll way down to find the current ones - would be helpful if it either gave me a smaller window around the current time, or auto scrolled to somewhere closer to now.

Useful app, I'll keep it handy.

Atomic Pineapple

MOH wrote: »

Either you've implemented that quickly or I've got the wrong app? Works for me.

Weather's not working for me though - just says 'null degrees celsius' and everything else is blank.
Other thing that struck me was that the list of flight all started from 4 hours ago , leaving me having to scroll way down to find the current ones - would be helpful if it either gave me a smaller window around the current time, or auto scrolled to somewhere closer to now.

Useful app, I'll keep it handy.

It looks like the site I was scraping has blocked my php scripts!! Didn't take long!!

Atomic Pineapple

MOH wrote: »

Either you've implemented that quickly or I've got the wrong app? Works for me.

Weather's not working for me though - just says 'null degrees celsius' and everything else is blank.
Other thing that struck me was that the list of flight all started from 4 hours ago , leaving me having to scroll way down to find the current ones - would be helpful if it either gave me a smaller window around the current time, or auto scrolled to somewhere closer to now.

Useful app, I'll keep it handy.

Weather should be back working now with version 1.0.4 update, as well as Belfast International and Knock data.

The app currently uses the native navigation app to show the route but I'd rather have it in app on the map that is displayed.

Auto scrolling the list is a great idea actually especially for Dublin as its list is fairly big. I'll look into that.

Thanks for the feedback.

MOH

Only seeing 1.0.3.2 in the Market at the moment?

Atomic Pineapple

MOH wrote: »

Only seeing 1.0.3.2 in the Market at the moment?

It can take some time to show up, its up as 1.0.4 for me now, also you may have to clear cache on your market app to get it to change.

MOH

Just checked it again, working fine now.

Atomic Pineapple

I've updated the app last night to version 1.2.3.

It includes better font for the terminals on Dublin airport, filtering by airline, flight number and location, fetching of airline logo if available on the details screen, Airline name is now displayed on the list of flights and flights info for Kerry airport is implemented (Weather is not available).

I'm hoping I've improved the app taking in the suggestions here but I've received my lowest rating since the new updated was published and no comment was left for that rating so any feedback on the new updates is really greatly appreciated.