Week 6 GSoC Progress Update (Android Port)

Anton Lundin glance at acc.umu.se
Mon Jul 6 08:27:45 PDT 2015


On 06 July, 2015 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:47:42AM +0200, Anton Lundin wrote:
>
> > Also a simple ui for the planner would be on my wishlist =)
> 
> Not so sure about this one. There are so many options plus the smaller
> screen size. And you can't print. Would people REALLY use that instead of
> doing this on a real computer? Or would this be more something that one
> looked at once, said "cool" but then never actually used?
> 
> I simply don't know. I find it hard to imagine that a serious tech dive
> would plan a dive on their phone and then copy it from there to their
> slate or something. But then, I'm not a serious tech diver, so I could be
> completely wrong and that would be the killer app everyone wants.
> 

Me and my dive team do it all the time.

We quite frequently run numbers on different gases, depth, time, deco
gas, whatever on our cell's just to figure out what we can/should do for
sort of dive.

Eg, We do a 55m dive on 21/35, can we deco 50% or will it take to long
time in the cold water so we need to bring the o2 along.

Will my 100 bar AL80 with 50% do, or do i need more gas?


Our plans change all the time, and we always iterate our plans in the
team and just try to figure out what works today. I've used multideco on
android quite a bit, and sometimes the planner on my OSTC 3. Right now
the OSTC 3 is getting support for calculating gas usage which is quite
important, but its still a bit clumsy to iterate different plans on. A
whole touch screen is better input than a two-button-interface.


I would just love a simple planner.

For me it could be as simple as:

Depth, time, gas, deco-gasses, and it just does drop-stone-mode and
gives me whatever is in the "Dive plan details" view.

( I even might wire it up myself, now when i think about it =)


//Anton 

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