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The new app (v0.9.1) is on Google Play. One nice new feature is the Record-Me.

The update

The new version has the following updates ( v0.9.1 over v0.9.0):

• Record-Me mode

• Nicer Icons

• Portuguese Translation

• Improvements to the HUD

• Change the default alt. to 50m

• Option to select diferent baud rates

• Option to keep the screen at full brightness

• Fix a bug with the Volume Control

• Fix bug in the RC Override screen

Record-Me

This is an interesting feature, you record a path and make you UAV follow it (J-DeMarco). I'll describe how it works:

1. Enable GPS on your Android Device
2. Go to the planning screen
3. Click on RECORD
4. Walk around (it will record a waypoint every 2s)
5. Hit RECORD again, it should say "file saved"

Now you have just created a file with the path you just walked, if you want load up the file and push it to your ArduPilot board and make your drone fly it. The image at the top of the post was made using this mode by taking a ride around my neighborhood.

How was it done

One nice thing with this version is that it is all done on top of the community work, I just did some review, re-factoring to keep-up the code base clean, testing, and merging. Here are some stats on the work we did from the last version:

6 authors have pushed 45 commits to all branches, excluding merges. On master, 24 files have changed and there have been 864 additions and 339 deletions. For more info go here.

For more information I suggest the DroidPlanner Wiki page. And as always if you want to help consider donating for the project by buying this app, joining the development team, or reporting a issue/bug/improvement on GitHub.