NMEA/IP aware Android apps

[Mollymawk]

Can anyone recommend any Android navigation apps which can receive NMEA data over IP - either by TCP or by UDP broadcast? (Output from OCPN or kplex.)

Specifically, my main objective is to display an AIS radar on my Android tablet.
A plotter app with NMEA/IP support would also be useful as my tablet's GPS doesn't work well inside the cabin (steel hull). I currently use MXMariner, but it doesn't have this capability.

I know apps like this exist for iOS, such as iNavX, but I don't have any iThings.

Caesar

[muttnik]

The same question was posted recently on the YBW forum:
Still no wifi AIS android app?
The app which Digital Yacht posted about at the end isn't fro, but at £6.49 is cheaper than iRegatta pro which looks like the other alternative. Sorry no personal experience of either.

[Mollymawk]

Keith thanks for that, a few ideas there but it looks like the general situation with Android navigation apps is abysmal.
I still hope to write my own someday, if I ever have the combination of enough time and enough power in the batteries... :-D
If I find anything useful I'll post back here.

[Ziggy]

Seems that wifi AIS is planned for MX Mariner Release 2.1. However, the current MX Mariner chart coverage seems to be limited to US, UK, Brazil, and NZ. I don't know if Will Kamp has any plans to expand it.

For all it's worth, I'm very interested as well.

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by muttnik

The same question was posted recently on the YBW forum:
Still no wifi AIS android app?
The app which Digital Yacht posted about at the end isn't fro, but at £6.49 is cheaper than iRegatta pro which looks like the other alternative. Sorry no personal experience of either.

Works only with Digital Yacht hardware.

b.

[barnakiel]

iRegatta

droidAIS

Sailtracke Polar AIS NMEA

[Ziggy]

Vesper Marine just released their WatchMate app for the android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....bhs.watchmate

[CaptTom]

Originally Posted by Ziggy

Vesper Marine just released their WatchMate app for the android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....bhs.watchmate

Perfect timing, thanks! Just working on hooking up my new Vesper AIS now. Just need to run one more antenna cable and I can try it out.

[Ziggy]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

Perfect timing, thanks! Just working on hooking up my new Vesper AIS now. Just need to run one more antenna cable and I can try it out.

Let us know how it works. I set mine up using vmAIS on a PC, before the Android app was out. Now everything is buttoned up until the Spring, but I'm looking forward to trying the app.