Yesterday, my first Android App hit the Market. Just search for flightpred and you should find it. It should run on any device running Android 1.5 and above. The App doesn’t do a lot so far. Essentially, it downloads an xml file from the flightpred server and displays the predictions for how many kilometers it thinks are possible to fly in the next three days in some flying sites on the small screen. Later I also want to add a GoogleMapsView with the circles like on the flightpred website.
I used to develop some small projects and my diploma work in Java some ten years ago. Since then the language progressed noticeably. I especially like the templatized containers. Back in the days, the containers were not type safe and I always had to cast when accessing elements. Also, the lambda’s look good.
Unfortunately flightpred doesn’t display any data by the time of writing. Is there a problem with the server?
Hi Chris,
yes it’s a problem with the web app. I upgraded the server yesterday night, and the flightpred webapp doesn’t run since then. I will try to fix it tonight. In the meantime, you can use the android app, or look at the bare data:
http://flightpred.ulrichard.ch/forecast.php?format=json
http://flightpred.ulrichard.ch/forecast.php?format=xml
Sorry for the inconvenience
Ricahrd