Auto-start aviation tablet app?

[Yetti]

On 6/23/2018 at 7:18 PM, toto said:

Curious what solutions people have come up with for this...

I've owned a variety of dedicated aviation handheld devices, including panel-mounted G* devices like a 696 and an Aera. I've also used a number of different mobile apps on iOS and Android. 

The mobile apps are getting advanced enough that their functionality may well eclipse the dedicated devices (at least arguably), but the thing I can't get around is that you're using a general-purpose device for a very specialized purpose. So if I have, say, an iPad mounted in the cockpit, but I forget to open an aviation app, it's a terrible emergency backup. In the worst-case scenario where I'm IMC and the entire panel disappeared, I'd have to unlock the thing, navigate to the app, open it, wait for initialization, etc. All while bouncing around in the soup. But the dedicated device would have powered up with the master switch, and even if I didn't touch it at all, it's got satellites locked, synced with an ADS-B in source, and displayed a very helpful moving map (maybe even with some synthetic vision or an AHRS-based attitude reference).

That's pretty helpful stuff. 

For those who strongly prefer a general-purpose iOS or Android device as a backup heading/attitude/nav reference, how do you make sure you've got it when you need it? Does the app init sequence just become a mandatory checklist item? Or is there a nice way of forcing an aviation app to launch at device startup, so it's always locked and loaded?

For Android this thread should help you.   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6391902/how-do-i-start-my-app-on-startup

 

For your Raspberry PI since it is Unix.   https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/run-a-program-on-your-raspberry-pi-at-startup/

 

I only do apple stuff when my wife makes me.

[toto]

3 hours ago, Yetti said:

For Android this thread should help you.   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6391902/how-do-i-start-my-app-on-startup

 

For your Raspberry PI since it is Unix.   https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/run-a-program-on-your-raspberry-pi-at-startup/

 

I only do apple stuff when my wife makes me.

Interesting, thanks @Yetti.  I assume that the Stratux folks have already worked out auto-start, but the Android snippets suggest that it's possible to do this with a configuration change that doesn't require rooting.  Probably harder to do with an iDevice.

[Yetti]

Yep stratux folks are just firing the program via the startup config.   Just like the Autoexec.bat of DOS/Windows of old.   Which happens to still be in use should you want to fire a program off on your surface tablet.