EVE Technology Lab

Hey Guys! I just wanted to announce the official launch of Eve Live Viewer for the iPad.

My app shows kills listed on Eve-Kill.net using the EPIC API on a 2D Map of the Eve Universe in near real time (Usually around 5 minutes.)

Here's some of the features:
-Near Live Views of Public Eve-Kill.net Killmails
-Link to Full Killmail reports on Eve-Kill.net via Safari
-Filtering based on Region, ISK Value, or Ship Type
-Search for Specific Systems and display Jumps
-Track your movements from Dotlan's EveMaps using their Radar functionality.
-Systems now show Alliance name's and logos.

Also, did I mention it was totally free? No banner ads, no in-app purchases... just free. I wanted to make something for the Eve Community that could be used by fleets, null-sec, and low-sec players. I hope this app helps and please give lots of feedback on this.

Furthermore, I have also submitted an update which includes Evemaps.dotlan.net's Radar integration to show your location live on the map as well as their Sov/Faction/Alliance Feeds. I've uploaded a video HERE on some of the coming features as they were in v1.1.

Finally, I have to mention that I designed this app entirely on the iPad using Codea. Codea is well known for the first app to help developers create their own apps and test them on their iPad without Xcode. Look here for an example of one of the first apps to do this.

Current Version (v1.3): Link
Video Example (Video I used to Submit to Apple for Approval: Link
App Blog/Website: Link

Next Version: 1.4
**Coming Soon**

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Bug Fixes
-Fixed a Search Bar Bug that can cause the app to freeze/crash
-Fixed a Dotlan Radar bug that can cause the app to freeze/crash
Display System Names on the map underneath the stars
Adding a Basic Historical Killmail List
Changed the way Stars and Notification Beacons are drawn to increase the speed of the app a small bit
Altered the font size of Dotlan's Notifications to allow it to fit better in the notification bar.


Version History:

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v1.3: Added Dotlan Radar Support, Dotlan RSS Feeds, Alliance Names and Images for systems
v1.0: Initial App Store Release Version

Known Issues in v1.3:

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-Map view with all jumps shown is a little laggy. I am working on speeding this up and the submitted v1.3 is the first step to this.
-Currently the app works in portrait mode only. This will be fixed once I begin my work on the iPhone Binary. (Yes, I plan on doing an iPhone version)
-There's been a suggestion to bring in pinch to zoom. I will be adding this in around v1.4 or 1.5.

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Many Thanks to Eve-Kill for such a great website and API as well as Dotlan. Don't forget to donate to these guys.

Eve Live Viewer has now been updated to v1.3!

Screen Rotation I am working on right now.
Map Panning I may work on. Right now, everything is running in a 2D engine, due to speed. I hope to eventually move it to 3d, but that will be a bit down the line.

As for the faster response, this has been my devil. Theres a lot of info that is being drawn, I've been able to speed up the entire app by moving the stars to being drawn as a "3d sprite", but the regional and stargate lines can not be done the same way. I'll keep dreaming up ways to speed it all up though. I'm not using Obj-C to write this app, so I don't gain some of the speed bonuses of doing it natively. I promise I'll keep working at it though until I loose my mind.

Thanks for the suggestions.

This is possible. I will look in on implementing it. The main problem with adding more graphically to the map is that it is beginning to cause slowdowns in the app as a whole. However, adding it as an option is a good idea and allow you guys to decide if you want to trade functionality for speed.

I'm working on version 1.4 now. It is taking a little longer than I would like because I recently started a new job, but I want to try to kick it out soon. Hopefully will have Historical killmail listings and a few other bug fixes added in.

Thanks for the feedback though. I'll try to get it in as soon as possible, Thaddeus.

I just added an update to what will be coming with version 1.4. I'm hoping to have it come out soon. All I am really waiting on is to finish up the basic implementation of the historical listing of killmails screen.

Again, the more feedback I get, the better I can make the app.

Thanks again for everyone's input!

I really do want to do the system highlighting based on its statistics. All in all, it just comes down to time because I have to manually grep the data from Dotlan's website since no API is provided to get the raw data. It is in my todo list, but need to find a nice free weekend where I can write it all in.

I hope you can try out the radar functionality soon. Let me know if the website end clears up and you are still having issues with it. It was something that I felt needed to be made for fleet commanders to track their surroundings. The way I want to see this app is the ability to switch radar on, filter killmails by current regional area, and be able to display systems where there pilots are in space for easy roaming pvp groups.

I'll get on finishing up 1.4 and then start planning to maybe get the system statistics out in 1.5 afterwards.