GOOGLE SKY MAP NOW AVAILABLE IN ANDROID MARKET!
Yesterday we posted an , an Android covering existence matured by Google that module earmark you to ingest your Android Phone to refer the stars your hunting at in the period (or day) sky. That covering has JUST launched but low a assorted name: Google Sky Map.
Here is Kevin Serafini, cipher organise on the Sky Map team, demonstrating the application:
Here are the features traded on the Google Sky Map Website:
Search: Find planets, stars, and constellations guided by your phone.
Motion detection: Sky Map uses your phone’s GPS, accelerometer, and grasp to create a pane in the sky that moves with your hand.
Celestial objects: Browse a transpose display the brightest naked-eye stars, planets, solarise and moon, plan lines, horizon, lvi points, and Messier Objects.
Navigation: Use semiautomatic fashion to permit Sky Map change the transpose for you or alter to a drill fashion that allows the transpose to be dragged with a finger.
The statement from Android Market:
Google Sky Map: A grapheme transpose for Android.
Google Sky Map turns your Android-powered ambulatory phone into a pane on the period sky. When you saucer your phone up you module wager a transpose of the brightest stars, constellations, and planets in that conception of the sky.
When/If you establish the covering and separate it… be PATIENT. The covering needs to encounter you GPS positioning among another things, but in this beta edition there is no “loading” concealment so your phone module “go black” and seem non-responsive. Pressing buttons module probable stimulate a Force Close choice but if you meet move it out, the Sky Map module appear. And if you poverty to add the Application to your screen it module be traded as “Sky Map” not “Google Sky Map” - that strength spend you whatever confusion.
My selection interpret so far:
Man the females fuck this app
Kudos
(Liam)
When I saw the covering on the mart it appeared with “Update Available” book incoming to it which is strange… because this is the prototypal instance it appeared on the market. However yesterday, when I posted most “Star Droid”, you haw advert that commenters criticized me locution an app same this was already ON the market. So I downloaded that application. It was titled Sky Map.
One crapper exclusive adopt that Google purchased “Sky Map” from the example owners, renamed it Google Sky Map and the “Update Available” was actually an update to that example application. That would also vindicate how there are already between 50k and 250k downloads with nearly 5k ratings. We’ll intend more content on this to you as it is prefabricated available.
So though I promised a comparability between the digit applications that today seems unneccessary impossible. Hopefully I’ll hit a analyse of Google Sky Map publicised tomorrow or weekday but I crapper verify you that initially it DOES countenance pretty shucks cool. And yes, Liam - the ladies module sure take it.
UPDATE:
I meet institute a clump of Google Blog posts on the matter with pictures on each:
And also over at the .
It is also engrossing that the digit screenshots of the covering from the LatLong journal were titled StarDroid. It makes you astonishment if they were thinking to study it StarDroid every along but either had ordinal thoughts at the terminal instance or were afeard they didn’t do their cod travail in front since effort maltreated with a causa over the Android trademark.
UPDATE #2:
I dispatched the developers an Email and disobedient to the assumptions that caused yesterday’s backlash, Sky Map has ALWAYS been a Google project, matured by Googlers during their 20% time. Now it is existence launched as an Official Google application, that’s all. For those that criticized me… I poverty you to undergo that both myself AND the Google Sky Map aggroup revalue that category of care/concern. Here is a excerpt direct from one of the aggroup members in an Email to me:
I hit to feature I’m quite grazed that your readers were afraid that we wouldn’t intend comely assign - it’s that variety of approval that makes us poverty to impact on projects same this.
That’s ground Phandroid readers are the best!
Update #3 - From StarDroid to Sky Map
John from the Google Sky Map aggroup fills us in as to the “name change” as discussed above:
Stardroid was the employed study for the send when we prototypal started it. If you countenance at our code, the drinkable packages are every titled com.google.android.stardroid.
As you crapper imagine, when you do a send same this you move employed on it daylong before you intend to the initiate of having a creation and needing an authorised study for it, so we didn’t opt the study Sky Map until quite New on before the prototypal release. We didn’t ingest “Stardroid” because it’s not rattling rattling descriptive (which is essential for ambulatory apps where you hit restricted expanse to exposit what it does). So, there’s no bounteous info here - “Stardroid” is the older employed study we utilised primeval in the project, we don’t such ingest it now.
