Crow’s Flight

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Crow’s Flight is a GPS compass app for the Android platform. Enter an address and the GPS compass will continuously update your position and point towards the destination. Distance to the point is displayed in meters or kilometers along with a visual distance gauge.

The red line always points north. The triangle points in the direction of the destination. The brightness of the triangle indicates the accuracy of your GPS fix. White being accurate and darker shades being less accurate.

To get it on your android device, go to the Market app on your phone and search for “crowsflight”. or click on the link->crowsFlight (only on Android devices)

Usage:
Go to the menu to record your current location so you can point back to it later.
Enter an address at the top textbox and press go.

crowsFlight is primarily meant for walking. Use it to track where you parked your car, camping, hiking, geocaching, getting lost, finding your way, hiding treasure, etc.

more features coming soon
-closest subway
-mark “here”
-show in maps

Crow’s Flight is open source and FREE.
source: http://code.google.com/p/crowsflight/

If your compass is acting weird, try calibrating it by spinning the phone on a flat surface really fast. Really. It worked for me.

October 4, 2009 at 8:07 am, | Software. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

24 Comments

  1. this is pretty sweet, you using the Android geocoder class for this? I am actually working on an app that does some similar functionality…how accurate where you able to get the location pinning?

    Posted October 5, 2009 at 8:04 am by joey

  2. Yup. Using the android geocoder class. Outdoors, the accuracy is around 3-6 meters.

    Posted October 5, 2009 at 8:20 am by cwwang

  3. Great app, but it crashes on Hero… please fix it…

    Posted October 6, 2009 at 8:18 am by musta

  4. Can you try it again? I think it was crashing because of database conflicts. Should be working now. If not, let me know.

    Posted October 6, 2009 at 6:33 pm by cwwang

  5. Beautiful design. Wish i had an android to try er out :(
    Looks sweet though :)

    Posted October 12, 2009 at 4:43 pm by Jason K

  6. Hi there, unluckily it force close again as soon as you tap on a saved destination…

    Posted November 10, 2009 at 5:49 am by musta

  7. thanks for the note. it should be fixed now. update to the 1.0.9 version.

    Posted November 10, 2009 at 6:28 am by cwwang

  8. ehmm… no it isn’t fixed… version 1.0.9 still having the same issue…

    Posted November 11, 2009 at 2:37 am by musta

  9. sorry. i’m not able to reproduce the error. can you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

    Posted November 11, 2009 at 6:59 am by cwwang

  10. Was great on my Hero but now says No satellites. Goggle maps etc is finding the satellites as is sat nav?
    thanks
    Riuss

    Posted November 12, 2009 at 1:28 pm by Russ

  11. I will. i’ll report as soon as i get in open air

    Posted November 13, 2009 at 4:31 am by musta

  12. ok:
    -fresh install
    -wait gps data
    -tap to see metric units
    -saved current location
    -moved away
    -tap to just saved location
    -waited few second
    -force close

    Posted November 13, 2009 at 6:36 am by musta

  13. I got the same problem like musta but everytime i type an address and press go.
    With old and new version 1.0.9.
    Using a G1 and custom android 1.6 built, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566676

    It worked before with 1.5.

    Hope it can be fixed, I used it a lot

    Posted November 13, 2009 at 10:23 am by Jeff

  14. thanks for the note. I’m going to look into it and have an update as soon as i can.

    Posted November 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm by cwwang

  15. no update but it’s not free anymore…

    Posted January 15, 2010 at 3:59 am by musta

  16. It’s been updated several times since your comment. Please check. The latest version as of now is 1.0.12 Crowsflight it is still free. There’s just an option to pay for the Crowsflight-Pro version.

    Posted January 15, 2010 at 5:00 am by cwwang

  17. On my Hero with Dutch language settings it will crash. English language settings = ok and I mean really OK

    Posted February 6, 2010 at 1:17 pm by Willem

  18. For me, it constantly displays “accuracy: no satellites” and apparently for that reason it does not display the arrow. But the distance and my coordinates are displayed correctly and updated often, so it actually knows accurately where I am. Any chance to fix that? (If there is no better choice, show the arrow even if not sure about its accuracy) I could navigate to the target using the distance, but an arrow would be much more helpful :)

    Also it did crash a lot before. After reading some comments here, I switched my language to English and it worked OK.

    (This is on Samsung Spica, other GPS progs like GPSlogger work fine.)

    Posted May 7, 2010 at 1:36 am by Eryx

  19. I’m a pilot and am looking for exactly this type of app. It would be great if, in addition to bearing, you could also post the true track. Even better if those figures were more prominent on the screen…

    Anyhow, thanks for your great work.

    Posted May 31, 2010 at 2:54 pm by Tom

  20. thanks! what’s the true track? I’d be happy to add a new feature.

    Posted May 31, 2010 at 3:51 pm by cwwang

  21. Using this on a “Desire” perfect …

    Posted June 13, 2010 at 3:08 am by Allan Jones

  22. Why is the “Pro” version exactly the same as the paid version. There does not appear to be a “Map link”
    ” Downloaded from the Market on to a Desire”

    Posted June 13, 2010 at 8:07 am by Allan Jones

  23. The app loads & finds my location, it locks & displays the forces close button
    as soon as I try to enter a direction, Phone is HTC Desire, Language=English
    Any ideas ?

    Posted June 16, 2010 at 1:52 am by Ray

  24. Is APP / Website no longer being supported as would really like this app to work ?

    Posted June 30, 2010 at 3:36 am by Ray

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