[Xastir] Off Topic & Slightly Commercial: Android App

[Curt Mills]

Naw, I did it for our SAR group, but needed a way to get auto-updates
to them, so went to the Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for the
solution to that.  Just trying to get my fee back from Google by
charging a minimum amount. The app doesn't do that much: Unix
strategy, do one thing and do it well...

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Fred Erickson <fredferickson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2015 1:28 PM, "Curt Mills" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please delete if you don't care about Android or are offended by an
>> offer for sale here.  It's SAR and mapping-related though!
>>
>> I'm in a slight quandary as I want to mention an Android app because
>> it might be useful to some of you, but it's super-cheap and I'm not
>> expecting to turn a profit on it...  I wrote it for my SAR group and
>> they'll have to pay the small fee too, to get new features and
>> bug-fixes automatically from the Appstore each time I put out a new
>> release.
>>
>> I came up with an idea for an Android app during the Oso, WA,
>> mudslide.  The SAR deputy would come running in with a scrap of paper
>> containing a coordinate and want it translated "right now!" into
>> lat/long for the helo crew.  He'd stand there tapping his foot (or was
>> that my imagination?) until I managed to convert it on a laptop, write
>> the coordinate down quickly on his scrap of paper and our comms log,
>> then he'd be off and running down the meadow to the helo.
>>
>> I wrote "CoordinatesNOW!" with that in mind, to make it the absolute
>> fastest coordinate conversion from lat/lon or UTM to:  dd dd.dddd, dd
>> mm.mm, dd mm ss.s, UTM, MGRS, and USNG.  One button press gets you ALL
>> conversions at once.  I just added a "Get Location" feature that will
>> snag your location from the device's GPS and immediately convert it as
>> well.
>>
>> Because it costs money to become a Google developer, I didn't feel
>> that I could give it away for free, but I priced it at $0.99 so it
>> doesn't hurt much.  I only have to sell 35 copies to get my Google
>> developer's fee back.  ;-)  The development tools were free and I
>> develop it on a free OS (Linux).  Woohoo!
>>
>> If it turns out to be lucrative it might encourage me to add datum
>> translation, or to write other apps for SAR.  So YOU decide whether
>> this is a commercial advert or not.  I'm just trying to break even on
>> this one.
>>
>> Link:  https://sites.google.com/site/sarguydigital/home
>>
>> NOTE:  Requires Android 3.0 or higher.
>
> Hi Curt,
>
> Just installed you app on my Nexus. Great!
> You should charge more, especially since you've given so much of your time
> for Xastir.
>
> Fred
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Curt, WE7U