Stellarium-android

A modded version of Stellarium-Mobile

Fork of chengxinlun's Stellarium-Mobile

Mobile platform specific source code http://stelladata.noctua-software.com/stellarium-mobile/stellarium-mobile-1.29.tar.gz Assets from https://code.launchpad.net/stellarium/ Note that changes have been made to the source code and assets (mainly use uncompressed PC version assets instead of compressed ones)

Copyright: Original Stellarium dev team

Features

• Extend default star catalog limiting magnitude to 13.5
• Allow custom configuration files and catalogs (Put them in /sdcard/stellarium. Same file structure to mobileData/data)
• Tweak UI size for better handling on mobile
• Correct for magnetic declination angle (Magnetic North is not real North)
• Higher quality texture compared to official Stellarium-Mobile
• 2K - 4K - 8K textures from solarsystemscope.com distributed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Planned features

• Planets

  • Draw orbit when selected

• Satellite

  • Support for Starlink.
  • Reduced hint sizes, show when visible and magnitude low.
  • Special yellow color for ISS.
  • Draw orbit when selected.

• Quasars

  • Add support for quasars
  • Online updated

• Exoplanets

  • Add support for exoplanets
  • Online updated

• Meteor Showers

  • Add support for meteors
  • Online updated

• Telescope Control

  • Add support for telescope control
  • Edit UI to support it

• UI

  • Improve search dialog
  • Material themed
  • Full HD support for planet textures

• Performance

  • 30fps stable

Prerequisites

• Qt-for-android (Known to work on qt-5.11 and 5.12)

Please note that for version ealier than 5.10, API for permission models for Android 6.0+ were not correctly implemented in Qt. Notably, Qt did not provide any API for requesting read/write to external storage permission. This permission is essential to the application.

Building APK

Set up android SDK and NDK, and environment in QtCreator. Open stellarium.pro in QtCreator. Push the Build button.

If the building process runs into problems while compiling dummy.cpp, simply copy the file to build directory and rename it moc_predefs.h.

Using a release

! Important ! If updating from a previous release do not forget to delete the stellarium folder present in your internal storage.

See the lastest releases from the releases page

Localization guide

TODO

Change Log

January 2, 2020

Starlink magnitude updated. 2K and 8K support for major celestial bodies. Newline correction for Quasars, Exoplanets and MeteoShowers informations.

June 2, 2019

Upgrading Main app and texture manager to implement QtConcurrent and Thread for increases speed. Not enough fast.

June 1, 2019

Editing Satellite module for better visualization Adding support for Quasars and Exoplanets

April 3, 2019

Update to mobile source code to 1.29.6 Clean up unused files

June 21, 2018

Android 8.0 support Runtime permission request

May 4, 2017

New feature: magnetic declination correction

February 20, 2017

Minor bug fix