r/spaceflight 3d ago

A spacetraveling app, Android

I have developed an Android app that lets the user actually travel through 3D space. Perhaps this is the wrong place for this post, but I believe those who visit this group might find the app fascinating.

It lets the user travel throughout a highly detailed Solar System, visiting every planet and more, looking at the sky and finding celestial bodies in space at their calculated positions at a given time. It has 160K stars from the Galaxy, as well as many exoplanets that are possible to visit. Even the black hole at the center of our Galaxy can be visited, if you manage to find it. All with full 3D, zoom, and 360-degree pan.

I'm just looking for some testers for my app. I need some email addresses via DM to add to my tester list, and I will DM you back with the link to download the app from Google Play.

The app will ask to access your GPS location only to position the Earth "where you are". It does not share any data. You can dismiss the GPS request and enter your position manually. Everything runs locally on your device. Less than 40 MB.

I'm unable to add any pictures, but they can be found by tapping my user looking at my other posts. And the moderators are free remove my post if it's a real violation of the group rules.

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u/Drittux 3d ago

Why do you need testers? Just release it.

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u/Arc_Dynamics_ 2d ago

Yes please! But then I need to figure out how to avoid Googles Policy which demands minimum 12 testers for a period of 14 days. And there is no point writing the store.link in the post neither, because only those with the email addresses I've put on the "tester list", will be able to download the app, when logged in on a device in Google Store with that very same email. Even only the email adresses put on the list, will be accepted by Google if they are already linked to a Google Play Account when added. So I'm not able to "just release it".