siameseHague
Active Member
Evening all.
I’ve had permission from Charlie to post this, so here goes.
I’ve been building a small Android app called Sporting Ledger. It is basically a private shooting diary for keeping track of outings, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, places, notes, species, rounds fired and reports.
It is not meant to be exciting. In fact, if it is boring and useful, I’ll take that as a win.
One of the reasons I built it is that I got fed up trying to piece things together later from memory, notebooks, photos and messages. It should be handy for pulling information together for Irish Section 29 and Section 42 deer returns, and for the UK side of things too, such as Natural England deer licence returns for closed season or night shooting, NatureScot deer authorisations and cull returns, and similar records people may need for Wales or Northern Ireland. You can also tag and store locations using your phone's GPS.
To be clear, it is not a legal compliance system and it does not replace whatever official return, licence condition or record you are required to keep. It is just intended to make your own records easier to keep and find.
Privacy was a big part of the build. You can keep everything on your phone only. Nothing has to be uploaded to the cloud if you do not want that.
There is an optional online cloud option, mainly so you can recover your records if you change or lose your phone. That uses Amazon Web Services in Ireland. In plain English, that means it is not sitting on some random server I knocked together in a cupboard (that is where the test server is!).
Google requires a closed test before the app can go properly live on the Play Store, so I need a few Android users to try it.
What I need is fairly simple:
Install the test version.
Add a few dummy or real entries.
Tell me what is confusing, clunky, broken or badly worded.
Tell me if the whole thing is a waste of time.
To be clear, there is no hard sell. No mailing list nonsense. No expectation that you keep using it. If you are naturally sceptical about apps like this, you are probably exactly the sort of person I need.
If you are willing to help, please DM me the Gmail address you use for Google Play and I will add you to the closed test.
Thanks, and apologies in advance for the rough edges.
I’ve had permission from Charlie to post this, so here goes.
I’ve been building a small Android app called Sporting Ledger. It is basically a private shooting diary for keeping track of outings, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, places, notes, species, rounds fired and reports.
It is not meant to be exciting. In fact, if it is boring and useful, I’ll take that as a win.
One of the reasons I built it is that I got fed up trying to piece things together later from memory, notebooks, photos and messages. It should be handy for pulling information together for Irish Section 29 and Section 42 deer returns, and for the UK side of things too, such as Natural England deer licence returns for closed season or night shooting, NatureScot deer authorisations and cull returns, and similar records people may need for Wales or Northern Ireland. You can also tag and store locations using your phone's GPS.
To be clear, it is not a legal compliance system and it does not replace whatever official return, licence condition or record you are required to keep. It is just intended to make your own records easier to keep and find.
Privacy was a big part of the build. You can keep everything on your phone only. Nothing has to be uploaded to the cloud if you do not want that.
There is an optional online cloud option, mainly so you can recover your records if you change or lose your phone. That uses Amazon Web Services in Ireland. In plain English, that means it is not sitting on some random server I knocked together in a cupboard (that is where the test server is!).
Google requires a closed test before the app can go properly live on the Play Store, so I need a few Android users to try it.
What I need is fairly simple:
Install the test version.
Add a few dummy or real entries.
Tell me what is confusing, clunky, broken or badly worded.
Tell me if the whole thing is a waste of time.
To be clear, there is no hard sell. No mailing list nonsense. No expectation that you keep using it. If you are naturally sceptical about apps like this, you are probably exactly the sort of person I need.
If you are willing to help, please DM me the Gmail address you use for Google Play and I will add you to the closed test.
Thanks, and apologies in advance for the rough edges.
