[Bas van Krieken (Bas van Krieken)]

Originally Posted by JerryL

Bas,

I've got a couple of suggestions. First, and this could just be my phone, is there a way to turn of the keyboard vibrate? I'm running ICS and I've turned off both keyboard vibrate options. Other apps use the standard keyboard but yours seems to use a custom keyboard.

It is not just your phone StarLog uses a custom keyboard to ensure a true nightvision experience. The vibration is build in, so that you get good tactile feedback while using the keyboard in the dark. A setting to switch between de StarLog and the normal Android keyboard is already on my RFC list, so stay tuned

Originally Posted by JerryL

Next, a setting to disable the auto-download of the image would be great. I observe from a lot of locations where I don't get good service so the phone will be in airplane mode most of the time. It seems to slow down main screen if there is no network and the mag and FOV calculations don't update. If I could just disable the picture download I'd be much happier. I could also see an option for caching images if that's not already happening.

This is great feedback! The images that the app downloads are already cached, so you only have to download an image once.
I will try and change the code so that the calculations are no longer dependend on the succesfull download of the object images.

Originally Posted by JerryL

Finally, and this is without using the app in the field, I think it would be great to be able to enter one or more lists of objects, either through the UI or through an import screen. Then in place of the object on the main screen you could select your observing list and the first object on the list would be displayed. Some navigation buttons or a swipe could move back and forth between objects. It would be cool if my list contained objects from one of your supported catalogs if the images could be downloaded and cached for later use in the field. I can think of lots of cool ways to link the lists to objects and observations. It would be a great way to track progress against your Messier or Caldwell lists.

I was already thinking along the same lines as you do! I was also thinking that StarLog may in the future help you keep track of observations lists. I've put it on the RFC list!

Originally Posted by JerryL

I'll let you know how things work after I use it in the field.

Please do, I'm looking forward to your feedback.

Originally Posted by JerryL

thanks,
JL