Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice
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@jayb thank you for this hard work!
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@jayb Seems like this is ~80% of the way to a fun, 2D top-down-scroller casual game.
Fly around, tap to steer in response to bullseye callouts… tap on a bad guy to launch an amraam.
I’d pay $1 for that in the app store … just sayin.
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@jayb
Nicely done! This is a very useful little tool. Thanks for taking the time to code and share it!
Regards,
Tomcattwo
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@marcq12 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
Hey jayb!! Tried to find your app on my Android but couldn’t for some reason
Thanks, Marc…
hey Marc,
I can help you out some more tonight (in half a day or so). In the meantime, please let me know if it is one or the other problem you are seeing:You are unable to find the app on Google Play
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You did install it from Google Play but it does not appear on your phoneAlso, what kind of Android device are you using and do you know the version of Android on it?
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@foxster said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@jayb As a new pilot this is very helpful to me. Thanks for sharing. I like the training feature also; I’m going to use it when I’m waiting at appointments. I’d like to think I’ll get comfortable enough not to rely on the companion app, we’ll see, but very cool!
hi foxster, I have been coding more than flying lately. So I have kept up my own practice with the app.
As you might get from this, I have never had any good intuition about bullseye calls. But using the training I realised a couple of things for rule-of-thumbs:
If you and the enemy radials are numerically far apart, you are usually safe if the distances also are high.
One exception is of course if you are at 350 and he is at 10, then the radials are not far apart. But for most cases this rule can help us decide
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@airtex2019 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@jayb Seems like this is ~80% of the way to a fun, 2D top-down-scroller casual game.
Fly around, tap to steer in response to bullseye callouts… tap on a bad guy to launch an amraam.
I’d pay $1 for that in the app store … just sayin.
Thanks @airtex2019, if I ever get any spare time I will look into that
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@awmk1 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@jayb thank you for this hard work!
Thank you - I hope it can be of use to you seasoned pilots too
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@jayb said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@marcq12 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
Hey jayb!! Tried to find your app on my Android but couldn’t for some reason
Thanks, Marc…
hey Marc,
I can help you out some more tonight (in half a day or so). In the meantime, please let me know if it is one or the other problem you are seeing:You are unable to find the app on Google Play
Or
You did install it from Google Play but it does not appear on your phoneAlso, what kind of Android device are you using and do you know the version of Android on it?
Cheers,
jbCan’t find it on Google Play and I’m using a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 10.1
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Excellent work!
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I’m in the “not on Google Play Store” (Spain) group… Can you install it manually?
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@icer I could make an APK available. Gimme a couple of days
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@icer an apk is on Github now
-jb
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@marcq12 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@jayb said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@marcq12 said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
Hey jayb!! Tried to find your app on my Android but couldn’t for some reason
Thanks, Marc…
hey Marc,
I can help you out some more tonight (in half a day or so). In the meantime, please let me know if it is one or the other problem you are seeing:You are unable to find the app on Google Play
Or
You did install it from Google Play but it does not appear on your phoneAlso, what kind of Android device are you using and do you know the version of Android on it?
Cheers,
jbCan’t find it on Google Play and I’m using a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 10.1
Thanks, Marc…Google Play tries to limit the apps we can access by the device we are using. But there is no reason for why it should not be available for you, that is a compatible device. I had someone else with a tablet and a similar issue, and the following steps seemed to help him:
On my phone it is Settings-Storage-Other apps-Google Play services
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@jayb said in Free Android app for Bullseye overview and practice:
@icer an apk is on Github now
-jb
Got it, installed on my device fine, will try it out soon.
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@jayb Hello, very cool, this APP!
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@jayb I know once you do something someone’s always got an idea, but just a thought for some possibly low hanging fruit. When the timer is counting down I find myself putting my finger where I expect the target to appear, then wait to see how close it is. Could you capture the screen touch and place a dot there to compare with result once the timer ends? Just a thought, but lovin’ the app just the same!
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@foxster that’s not a bad idea at all, I could look into that once I have finished another project I am working on.
Also, I am contemplating dropping the Easy practice mode and letting the timer countdown be a setting somehow. That leaves space for a new button at the bottom which could be used to gamify the callouts a bit more, like how close you get and how fast.
Any thoughts and ideas are most welcome
-jb
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I wrote something similar that works on most browsers on desktop and mobile devices with voice so you could train by listening to the bullseye call and see if you got the right location. Depending on the platform and your browser you might get a male or female voice. as the default. It helped me to just listen and form the picture in my head. You can set your own bullseye and click the request picture call.
Try: https://sites.google.com/view/tech69/home/bullseye-training
Hope this is helpful for others too.
If you want to write your own your own tool you can look at the html and javascript here:
https://github.com/ohommes/bullseyeCheers!
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@ohommes That is a really cool tool. I especially like the speech part, to inject that extra bit of stress that comes from having to work from what you hear only. Thanks for sharing!
-jb
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