Boaty Apps for Android

Here are some

Navionics - but only works on phones, not tablets - and it costs £20 for European charts

Mobile traffic - full AIS info (as long as you have mobile coverage)

mobileGRIB - get the latest raw data and predictions

TideApp - guess what it does! - let's you save favourite ports
 
chi-girl said:
perfect- just what i was looking for.

there are so many download sites, does anyone know if there is an official one?
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Per the Bendy One's comments, the Android Market is the official one, with the shopping bag icon. There is a setting on your phone which will stop you from installing Apps from anywhere except the Market.

AppBrain is an excellent source of apps too and the Amazon App Store is also rated. Your phone will run nearly all Android apps except those specifically for Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) which is the version tablets use.

If you're not familiar with QR codes then download Barcode Scanner and give it a go - QR codes are those little squares with what looks like a black and white picture that's been over-zoomed in it. Most times an app you find on the web when reading a review or something will have a QR code on the web page - simply open Barcode Scanner and point your phone's camera at it. The app will recognise the code and put a link on the screen for you to press that will open the app in the Market.

So if you open Barcode Scanner and point the camera at this

chart


it will link you straight to the Saildroid app so you can install it.



Edit: I'd really, really, really recommend you get an Aqua-pac type dry bag for it as well or it will almost certainly get damaged if you try and use it on the boat. Smartphones hate water. Some don't even cope with rain very well..
 
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also on the android market:

Marine navigator (you can load your own raster maps that worked on OpenCPN just fine!)

3D compass an augmented reality compass (combine gmaps, 3d compass and overlay of the background through the camera)

not sure there is a mobile traffic, there is a marine traffic though which does AIS very well.

Anchor watch

good luck, really like the droids!

V.
 
thanks so much, these progs work really well.
the phone is a htc desire hd and the screen is a great size great for navigation.

I've ordered a splash proof full cover so hopefully all will be well
 
I've downloaded marine navigator lite as i couldn't see marine nav.
i need to get a bigger sd card as my 2gig is filled up and i need another 1.5gig of space.
i only need the solent area raster charts but I don't know how to separate them from the world charts i was given. there are hundreds of maps with only numbers for id's
 
chi-girl said:
I've downloaded marine navigator lite as i couldn't see marine nav.
i need to get a bigger sd card as my 2gig is filled up and i need another 1.5gig of space.
i only need the solent area raster charts but I don't know how to separate them from the world charts i was given. there are hundreds of maps with only numbers for id's
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at the bottom of openCPN screen, there's a series of blue, lightblue and empty blue boxes with curved corners. Hovering the cursor over them, will highlight the map they refer to on screen (in bright red) and popup a window with path, filename info. That should do, just pick the right ones up and upload them to your HTC.

BTW, what format vector maps did you manage to upload to openCPN (I'm not interested in your area so don't give me names, just format types)

cheers

V.
 
I've looked in the map containing files and the file names end in .a, .b,.c
it says cm93. i was posted these by a very kind forum member so i have them all on CD.
 
I can't find any blue boxes just a long yellow bar. then again I've probably messed with the settings.

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ive id the charts i need. i hovered over the yellow bar and it gave me the file name
 
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chi-girl said:
I can't find any blue boxes just a long yellow bar. then again I've probably messed with the settings.
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or most likely the difference between raster and vector maps. I only have raster maps loaded, I'll have a go loading a couple of **93 maps of East Med I have and see if it works...
 
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