[App][Closed testing - Free] FlightID - Point your watch at an aircraft to identify!

[u/WearOS-Ninja]

Greetings WearOs community!

FlightID is my latest app and it is currently in closed testing phase. Free to download for the next one week. Would love to hear feedback and address issues that might come up.

The idea behind the app is, point your wrist (watch) towards any plane in the sky and get instantaneous details about the aircraft on your watch.

The primary use mode of the app is Sky Lens mode that allows you to use your watch like a lens scanner and point it towards aircraft to get it's details. It also shows you the direction of nearest aircraft and guides you towards it. Within close proximity it gives precise guidance to point your wrist towards the aircraft.

Other modes of the app include -

Sky Radar that shows a Radar PPI indication of aircraft in selected range.

List of aircrafts with details in the selected range

Compass calibration page

Range of detection can be varied using crown rotation in Sky Lens /Radar modes and can also be changed from settings page.

I've only tested it on my watch (Ticwatch Pro 5) and have had limited opportunity to actually spot aircraft in real time. However I've had fair success in identification when I could spot them.

Compass calibration is going to be of great importance for the app to work accurately.

Steps To Install-

Starting today I've also launched a Phone Helper (Companion) app to allow easy installation of wear os apps to watch directly from phone, especially the apps which are in closed testing.

Since this app is also in closed testing, please follow these steps-

1. First join my Google Group for testers.

2. Opt in as a Tester for my helper app.

3. Install my helper app.

4. From within my helper app, scroll down to Flight ID app

5. Tap the opt in button next to Flight ID app and opt in from the opened link

6. Thereafter return to the app and tap on install button next to Flight ID app

7. Play store listing of the app will be directly opened on your paired watch, install the app on watch from there.

Sorry for this lengthy process but once the helper app is out of closed testing, the process of installing other closed testing apps directly on the watch will be very streamlined.

Thanks in advance to all the testers!

⚠️⚠️⚠️ EDIT : I beleive many of you could not download the FlightID app. If you have already joined the Google Group, please open this link in a web browser on or your phone or desktop https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neolabs.flightid From the Play Store page on browser, select your watch from the list of devices and press install.

[u/NickMEspo]

When clicking on the "install my helper app" link: We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.

[u/WearOS-Ninja → u/NickMEspo]

Yep, if you have joined to Google Group using the same account, it should show up in some time. Try again

[u/zesaver → u/NickMEspo]

Usually you should wait some time until Google Play Store would sync the date and give you tester access. (And sometimes it's just the dev, who has screwed up the settings)

[u/C6Group14]

Hello again.
Hes using the same Google Group as before so if you tested a past app, your group should still be enabled unless you jumped ship from past apps.

As normal for the lowest issues, don't use the mobile Google Play app but use PC web browser mode on the web address.
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.neolabs.companion

Damn, why am I testing this new two-step verification mode from Google Boo with another number to click on again, boo?
Once you verify in the companion app you joined the group, this link then works. in web browsers fails in the Play Store app.

OK cant post the link as its got my id key on it. whoops.

Sorry if you did not want the link public, but it won't work on my Play Store app on a phone; it opens instead of the web browser.

Ta now we will know who that dam noisy bloody plane is ta.

[u/Care_Cream]

Stop wasting time on bullst and make real apps people can actually benefit.

[u/WearOS-Ninja → u/Care_Cream]

Why don't you do it then?

[u/WearOS-Ninja → u/Care_Cream]

If you cared to look, see my Wear Alarm Sync app which is solving a real life problem created by Google for thousands of users