Comment by YureZzZ on November 24, 2012 at 3:51am

If you want to fly your phone, why don't you use Google MyTracks?

Comment by MHefny on November 24, 2012 at 3:58am

Google My Track and many similar application, assumes that you are driving a car or walking. The mentioned application cannot give you a KML 3D map where altitude is considered as output.

The main feature in RC Track is that it does consider altitude and generate KML files that you can use with GoogleEarth application to display 3D paths,

Moderator Comment by Brian on November 24, 2012 at 10:45am

Download is very small, 33.3kb?  That correct?  I'll try this out.

Comment by Peter Meister on November 24, 2012 at 10:54am

Very cool use of an android phone....

Comment by meroicon on November 24, 2012 at 2:59pm

Good work Hefny

Comment by MHefny on November 24, 2012 at 3:36pm

Thanks all for your comments ... kindly try and let me know if it is working with you :)

Comment by isojed on November 25, 2012 at 3:02pm

Hi Hefny,

Tried it on an cheap Samsung GT-S5360 (Android v2.3.6) and strapped it on mine hexa.

Waited for the coordinates to appear and touch the On/Off button. After 8 minutes of flying, i switched it off. Oddly the kml file RCPath20121125T220135.kml contained zero bytes...  Tried it again, same result.

Is the Android version on mine phone not supported?

If you could also show the altitude ?

Comment by MHefny on November 25, 2012 at 3:42pm

thanks for trying the application.

I tried it on Andoid 2.2 , GT-9001 2.3.3, S3  4.1 and they are all working.

The problem is that you need to open the application menu by pressing menu then select "exit"... 

... I will update the application to avoid this unnecessary step...however for time being you can try it as is just remember to open the application menu and select "Exit".

You can try the application without flying if you want to... just walk outdoors, open the application.

Good Luck. :)

Comment by isojed on November 25, 2012 at 5:07pm

I closed the app now properly and the file now contains data. Mine excuse, i use iOS on a daily bases.

Showing more GPS data like altitude and number of sats would make the app more useful.

Thank you for writing this handy app.

Comment by MHefny on November 25, 2012 at 5:30pm

You're welcome.

based on your feedback I enhanced it to make GPS button on/off is enough.

also will log speed as comments in the KML file so that you can monitor your speed by opening KML in notepad or any XML reader.

pls check 

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