[squawksarah]

Nature Explorer v6.0.2
Requirements: Android 2.0 and above with up to 380mb free SD Card space.
Overview: Aviasoft Nature for Android has 15 nature topics to view. Locale is Western Europe. Each item has an illustration, photograph and text description. Birds subject also has bird songs. Nature topics and the newest app may be downloaded from within the app. New tablet version can be run alongside the main phone app.


* Birds (European)
* Butterflies (European)
* Insects (Spiders and other Anthropods)
* Marine Life
* Wild Flowers (European)
* Trees
* Fungi
* Reptiles & Amphibians
* Weather
* Fossils
* Rocks
* Wild Herbs
* Mammals (NEW!)
* Night Sky (NEW!)
* Green Plants (NEW!)

* Features...
* Auto sd-card detection
* Data stored off-line on your SD Card or internal memory(up to 350mb)
* More support for new devices
* Full Database editor within the Windows version
* Species can be sorted alphabetically or scientifically and seen in Latin and common (English) names
* Search Functions improved and bug fixes
* Menu improvements with picture icons for species
* Extra data and features for Birders
* 'Slideshow' auto-advance feature.
* Improved Database
* Pinch-Zoom for images (or use zoom buttons)
* Memory usage reduced
* Bugs with search and list sorting in latin fixed.
* Improvements to overall funtionality of app
* Simple data edit in-app
* NEW! custom user-defined path to sd-card for devices with non-standard memory roots.
* NEW! In-App topic database download and install option
* NEW! Custom category lists for personalised on-the-fly species lists.
* NEW! More precise species selection from the menu using a second category list

Version 6.0.2 changes:
* NEW! Tablet version 'beta' released
* Small improvements in Phone version.

Version 6.0.1 changes:
* Second menu category to give more control over what species are selected
* Bug-fixes in downloads page (the graphics) and other areas

Version 5.8.0 changes:
* New topic: Green Plants added in this release (uninstall previous version first)

Version 5.7.2 changes:
* create a personalised on-the-fly list of species

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More Info:

Code: Select allwww.aviasoft.co.uk

Download Instructions

Nature Explorer for ANDROID ALL APKs (downloaded as a ZIP) (3.17mb):
http://www.aviasoft.co.uk/aviasoftnatureandroid.zip

Nature Explorer for ANDROID ALL APKs (3.17mb):
http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/80337701/file.html

Nature Explorer for WINDOWS DESKTOP v5.3.0 - FULL (330mb):
http://www.aviasoft.co.uk/aviasoft.nature.explorer.full.zip

The latest versions may also be downloaded free at: http://www.aviasoft.co.uk

[lohtse]

is there away to have it run in landscape on a tablet??? would be awesome if it could...

also one of the features I do miss from winmo version is the ability to search using shape and colour.....Anyway to impliment it on Droid or is it there and just not seen it?



regards
Lohtse

[squawksarah]

lohtse

sorry for delay. on holiday walking in the dales.

i don't recall being able to search by colour or shape. some topics have categories of species (we used to called these groups in wm) by colour. fungi has common shapes. the old wm had graphic menus which allowed you to choose a category by colour or shape. these pictue menus are not part of the android version but the associated group categories are still abailable from the category list.

landscape mode.. how do you see this orientation being useful? portrait is the best way to view the images on a small phone.i have a 7 inch tablet which can show much more. how would you envisage nx looking on a bigger landscape display like a tablet?

[lohtse]

have both 7" and 10" tablet and landscape is sometimes is more comfortable when holding the device and also easier for young persons to hold it too... was just a thought..

as to the other info)relating to my question) that was what I meant.... again it's easier for young persons to use a shape to search and or a colour...

which part of the dales was you in?

[squawksarah]

we are staying at ingleton on the west side of the dales. just below inglebrough fell, which we are going up soon. i almost brought my paraglider along so as to be able to fly down again. i wish i had. i will give the landscape display some thought.

sarah

[lohtse]

lol was just up the road over in selside leading a caving group!!!!

and yes you will have regretted not taking your PG with you;-) some great thermals up there!

[squawksarah]

ah! we saw the caving place today coming back from climbing pen y gent.

[lohtse]

pennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny!!!!! She's beautiful!!!!!!!

Hey and you walked up her lol.... though there is a nice section with a grade three scrabble as you take the main path too top and then theres the face on the south side near trig but can be loose....But fun when under winter conditions!


oooooooops think we have gone off topic tee hee!!!!

[squawksarah]

... theres the face on the south side near trig but can be loose..


we took the steeper south side route. red partridges on that side. and crazy lapwings everywhere in the upper hils. really surprised how few birds of prey are here. saw mountain pansy flowers today higher up in the hills near hawes wave clouds seem bigger around hawes in a sw'ly. what a superb place. i could spend months here walking, climbing and flying not to mention taking photos.

home tomorrow after which i will look into a landscape option to the app!

you are amazingly fortunate to work in the dales. sweet!

sarah

[lohtse]

Hey am no mountain pansy!!! :-/ lol

Cover whole UK


glad you had a great time next time you are near peaks(i live on edge of it) let me know and happy to put the two offyou up for a few days too..


great news about app but don't rush as not too important...
Amazing app as it is...

regards
Lohtse

[squawksarah]

lohtse

i am working on a tablet-only app version that can be installed alongside the phone app.

i found simply allowing the phone app to work in landscape orientation wasn't useful due to the tabs being set up for portrait orientation.

the dedicated tablet cersion will show 2 images on the screen at the same time, making use of the extra space tablets have. it will be aimed at 'standard' 7 and 10 inch tablets, rather than phones in landscape orientation.

what are the specs of your tablet? eg.. 7 or 10 inch and screen width/length in pixels? standard dpi is 150.

we hope to get back to the dales again later in the year, i really want to fly them.

sarah

[lohtse]

tabs are 10" and 7" ones an advent vega and others samsng tab 2, not sure of dpi etc....

[squawksarah]

tabs are 10" and 7" ones an advent vega and others samsng tab 2, not sure of dpi etc....

thanks, lohtse

i am developing this tablet app on a tab 2 and i will find the vega specs! you may try a beta when it is ready if you wish.

[squawksarah]

NEW! TABLET VERSION RELEASED!


This is additional to the existing PHONE apk and can be installed on the same device. It does not remove the main phone version of nature explorer.

The tablet is in beta - it uses the larger (landscape) display of a tablet to show more information at any time. (See the screen pictures on the Aviasoft website.)

It should work on standard 7" and 10" tablets (i.e. the Samsung Tab range) 950x600 pixels, 1024x600 pixels or 1280x800 pixels screen dimensions.

Other sizes may be added if anyone finds their standard tablet needs its layout added. The tablet and phone apks are within the zip download file and you can install both on the same tablet.

This new tablet app does not have a couple of phone version features as yet: field-note taking or database editing.

I would appreciate feedback from tablet users

Tablet feedback and info on this new tablet thread, please...

http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=421&t=794738&p=1923332#p1923332

[squawksarah]

NEW VERSION V6.0.8 here...

viewtopic.php?f=399&t=809015