Aerodrome Chart overlay not available on Android?

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Aerodrome Chart overlay not available on Android?

Aerodrome Chart overlay not available on Android?

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Sky Painter	Sky Painter posted 5/23/2014 8:36:48 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 626, Visits: 14K	Thanks Tim. I'm greatly encouraged by your response. Mike _________________________________________ Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.1.0 Huawei P30 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.1.0 PC – Windows 10 (Home Ed) Version 22H2, Build 19045.5198, SD 4.0.1.0
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 5/23/2014 12:44:17 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 8.9K	The issue is not one of money. We want SkyDemon for Android to have this feature too, but we have a (known) set of things to get in place before it will happen.
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Sky Painter	Sky Painter posted 5/23/2014 11:47:30 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 626, Visits: 14K	Forgive me if I'm being dim – not being a nerd and all that – but couldn't the universally available and free Adobe PDF Reader be used, or is a 'reader' a different animal to a 'renderer'? I seem to remember from the SD Newsletter that introduced SD for Android that the declared aim was to achieve feature parity across all platforms so, like many others I'm really hoping that this will become a reality for Android in due course. If necessary, I would even consider paying an 'enhanced' subscription to get this functionality, if that's what it takes. Mike _________________________________________ Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.1.0 Huawei P30 – Android 11.0 & SD 4.0.1.0 PC – Windows 10 (Home Ed) Version 22H2, Build 19045.5198, SD 4.0.1.0
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derWessi	derWessi posted 5/20/2014 8:32:44 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 63, Visits: 157	stevelup (15/04/2014) There is no universally available PDF renderer available on Android devices. On iOS, it is part of the operating system, very high quality and extremely fast. I understand that it might be to expensive for you to buy and integrate a pdf renderer for android. But how about to convert the approach plates from pdf into a file format, that is easier to handle with on android. For example you could convert the plates in 200 dpi jpg-images. I personally will continue to use VFRNav in flight until SD can show me approach plates as overlay. Best regards, Andreas
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lhe	lhe posted 5/3/2014 3:03:52 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 154, Visits: 445	I agree with Svartbjorn. I am quite happy with SkyDemon as a flight planner (using Android), but I would change to another flight planner before changing hardware if I ever felt that the Android version no longer stood up to the competition. I am using lots of software on my Android so there are many other factors that affect my choice of tablet OS. (Not the least of which is Apples policy for its App Store.)
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Mike@EDTG	Mike@EDTG posted 4/18/2014 5:55:48 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 164, Visits: 757	I think the combo SD on Windows PC & Android Tablet is very popular. There is no reason why the android release is so far behind, it shouldn't be treated as some sort of by-product. In Germany the Flightplanner 6.0 Windows/Android combo is very popular among pilots. A huge market to gain... ....just my 2 cents mike@edtg
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MikeTwoOne	MikeTwoOne posted 4/18/2014 11:23:05 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 147, Visits: 2.1K	There is no universally available PDF renderer available on Android devices. On iOS, it is part of the operating system, very high quality and extremely fast. Which is true. But, according to some Android developers (some of my colleagues are), many good PDF libraries are available. So it's not a showstopper by itself.
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Martin Christoph	Martin Christoph posted 4/18/2014 10:56:11 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 16	Hi all I'd like to join all those voting for plates on Android. I'm using SD for few months only but several guys started to test SD once they see me using it. Few bought licences already and most of us are Android so we're fully supporting this idea. It's so usefull, once I discovered it on PC and not beeing able to use it on Samsung but knowing IOS guys can I'm just jealus and feel bad about it. Is tehee any chance to accelarate works on it? Thanks for great soft and confidence up in the sky!!! Tags android need plates usefull
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Markus	Markus posted 4/18/2014 6:11:43 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 146	stevelup (15/04/2014) There is no universally available PDF renderer available on Android devices. On iOS, it is part of the operating system, very high quality and extremely fast. Thank you for this background information!
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svartbjorn	svartbjorn posted 4/17/2014 8:28:04 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 51, Visits: 358	How do you do that? If that is possible, then it is perhaps also possible to overlay ICAO maps or SQlite maps when you need more ground details? Maybe you could email me so we can communicate directly?
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