Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader
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Stay up to date with the latest in aviation when on the move. Please note that this is merely a reader for the excellent content provided by Simon Hradecky at http://avherald.com/, so kudos and donations to Simon!
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I have received quite a few suggestions/feature requests from some of you but the situation is quite tricky here.
I have originally developed the app for my own use and to learn how to build Android apps. I don't see much point in further developments of the app for a number of reasons:
1. There is no official API for avherald, so what you see in the app is a result of parsing the avherald website, which is quite tricky and not very robust (i.e. a change to the website might render the app useless). As a result features like posting comments, although possible to implement, require a lot of effort and time (also to maintain after they have been released).
2. A couple of months back Simon has released an official iOS app for avherald and I'm sure he's working hard on an Android app, too. Due to the fact that it will be tightly integrated with the data sources, it will most likely simply be better than my app, so everybody will switch to the new one.
3. I have absolutely no incentive to continue working on the app; some time ago I have introduced a mild form of non-intrusive advertising but nobody is clicking on the ads - throughout this whole period the app has made less than a third of what I had to pay to register as a Google developer, to be able to post the app on Google Play in the first place.
4. For a brief moment I was considering releasing a paid version of the app with extra features but since it relies on hard work of somebody else (Simon), I thought it wouldn't be ethical.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
v2.1.0
- parsing of aircraft registration number - you can now click on it to be taken to an external site with photos of the aircraft
- embedded youtube videos now play directly from within the app (doesn't work on some CM11 devices due to a bug in chromium)
v2.1.0
- parsing of aircraft registration number - you can now click on it to be taken to an external site with photos of the aircraft
- embedded youtube videos now play directly from within the app (doesn't work on some CM11 devices due to a bug in chromium)
More downloads Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader was updated to version 2.1.0
More downloads Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Aviation Herald (AVH) Reader
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Amazing app, easy, nat interface. Not talking about the expertise that comments bring to all articles. I am just missing a "share" button to make it perfect. I just wrote to the dev team to share ;) my suggestion, let's see what happen.
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Can't open with mobile data. Only Wi-Fi. It is crazy while trying to close using mobile data. It opens and closes whenever it wants. Also it would be nice to download the pics out of the app. But actually nice app. Like it
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Love this app! But it could still do with some additional features, custom notification sounds, better filtering (i.e. incident, report etc) or may be even the ability to 'favourite' (for want of a better term) a particular event to make it easier to follow. Keep up the excellent work.
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Works like charm. I only miss a "share" button from where I could share events with friends on WhatsApp, hangouts.... I'd suggest this share button to share a link to AVHerald's site or an option to open the link in the app, if the other person has it.
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Sometimes I miss most recent news, and latest events...some incidents are missing completely.But still great app
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Of course linked to the website. There are many interesting cases that you can discus with your co-workers or fellow pilots.
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Works fine. The alert of updates is a valuable feature. Missing a deeper history of events before 2000.
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Good app. Keeps you updated with all the aviation news. One issue.. why is the same app paid for iPhone?
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When coming from another app it doesn't let you scroll
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Easy to use app. Straight forward as needed. Thanx to the developers!
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great app and very helpful
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But I wish I could at least download or zoom in the photos.
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Best app!
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Excellent
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Perfect News
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Absolutely love it
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Love this app, but haven't given it five stars due to the lack of a way to list items by the date they occurred rather than the date they were last updated.
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Absolutely love it
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Very well done
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Nice one
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This is truly a fabulous app and works extremely well for a quick look at the latest aviation mishaps when I am away from my laptop,
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Just like the website. Works greatlly!
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Delighted to have access to AVHerald articles from my mobile. APP works well.
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Very informative app
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Excellent
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Exelent
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But this app makes you wanna take the bus to your vacation spot. 5 stars
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great app and very helpful
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Nice App
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Works great, wish I would have found it sooner
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Great app!
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This totally beats using the avherald website on my tablet. However, it's annoying that the app ignores the system rotation lock, which makes reading in bed difficult because it keeps rotating out of portrait mode. Thanks for developing this app!
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Cool
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Was just thinking about writing an app for AVH.. but did a quick search and found this :) Nice app
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Like the layout. Very true to the site. Hope that in the next release there is a way to "click here to read next 30 comments". Icon is a tad... tragic? Would prefer one that suggests aviation news in a more "in the air" motif.
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Was just thinking about writing an app for AVH.. but did a quick search and found this :) Nice app
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Like the layout. Very true to the site. Hope that in the next release there is a way to "click here to read next 30 comments". Icon is a tad... tragic? Would prefer one that suggests aviation news in a more "in the air" motif.
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The best aviation news app ever