APP idea (companion app)

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Hey!

Wouldn't it be cool if we had an app where we can do the docked actions via smartphone?

e.g:
accepting missions
buying / selling stuff
claiming powerplay allottments
selling / buying equipment

What do you think?
 

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INSTG8R said:
Well there is already an App but it's only for iPhone and frankly it's utterly useless.
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Ok, iPhone only doesn't just cut it. We want Android!

And it shouldn't be useless if it can handle the stuff above.

The coolest would be of course chat functionality..
 

Bomba Luigi

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you need to be docked to do these things so you have the Option to do this on Screen already. Whats the point of having it on a second screen too?
 

INSTG8R

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Ok, iPhone only doesn't just cut it. We want Android!

And it shouldn't be useless if it can handle the stuff above.

The coolest would be of course chat functionality..
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So then you will just get the same useless App. The only thing it actually does that could be considered "useful" is it shows your Ranks, Credit Balance, and the station your in. The Market section is useless. The Shipyard is useless and totally out of date. Basically they launched it and that was it.
So if you can convince to actually make it useful by all means.
 

s0litaire

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Could be useful to have your REP at last station, Finance details Statistics and Inventory (what ships where and their load-out).
 

IronGremlin

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Honestly I can't see much of a point to a companion app unless it let me do something that I couldn't do without switching screens or alt+tabbing.

Like, a companion app that remembered commodity prices at previously visited stations would be cool.

An app that let me take notes about a system or station would be neat and super useful.

An app that gave me an out of game galmap would be amazing.

An app that automatically loaded the system map for the system I am currently in would also be super useful.

If it just lets me do stuff at a station that I could accomplish with a few button presses, I don't see the point - remotely being able to accept missions would be pointless because of mission timers.

I could see maybe being able to buy or sell commodities because you could buy low from work or something, or buy rare stocks, but IMHO that encouraged camping, which is kind of terrible gameplay anyway.
 

wolverine2710

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INSTG8R said:
So then you will just get the same useless App. The only thing it actually does that could be considered "useful" is it shows your Ranks, Credit Balance, and the station your in. The Market section is useless. The Shipyard is useless and totally out of date. Basically they launched it and that was it.
So if you can convince to actually make it useful by all means.
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The web-api has all that information. It just isn't displayed in the iPhone app. The web-api has not been updated for PP, so you will miss that information. A tool which uses the iPhone web-api is EDMarketConnector. It is open source and can be found on github. Its a so called OCR Error Free aka aka mobile api based tools which optionally sends market data and Shipyard info to the EDDN.

The usage of the OEF tools is unclear atm. FD has NOT said NO but NOT said YES either. A good read is the FD thread "Any news on the official ED API ?". It describes that in January FD asked us for input for an official ED API, that currently the API has been given a low priority. That an author of an OEF tool has asked for some leeway to temporarily use the OEF tools, that Michael Brookes said "its being discussed". All with quotes from FD and sources. After that (22th of May 2015) we haven't heart anything. Also a good read is this post and the articles preceding it. A catch-22 scenario fro FD imho. Basically ANY measure they take against the (users of the) tools will cost them time/resources. More time then it would take them to make the tools absolutely obsolete. As in dump market data and other data in a JSON/XML and let the third party tools take care of it (for example sending it to EDDN).

For more information about and an overview of the three OCR error Free (OEF) aka mobile api based tools see this FD thread. It does NOT contain direct links to be in compliance with the FD rules. Apply google fu.

I REALLY hope we will see an official ED-api soon. It will be give an ENORMOUS boost to the third party tools eco system. Lots of NEW tools can then be created. Tools which can't exist now because we have no data.
 
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Bomba Luigi said:
you need to be docked to do these things so you have the Option to do this on Screen already. Whats the point of having it on a second screen too?
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That I can go outside and enjoy the sun instead of sitting at home and waiting 30 minutes to click on "Get Allottment".
Yeah, I could also fly around in the remaining 29 minutes. But why? I need to go back to the powers seat anyway and my cargo space gets fuller by the landing.
What else - fighting in a T9? I don't think so.
 
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