I do!

Quote from MandulAA :

... I'd like to get this app on Play Store some day, so updates are easier for me and for you as well, but that requires registering a developer account (and paying the registration fee) on Play Store which I currently do not have. For now, I'll post any updates to the app here in this thread. ...

Update 0.7
New in 0.7, hotlap charts and a friends list with their active statuses are now available! New screenshots included in the original post: hotlap charts, friends page, highlighting of own/friends' hotlaps and the drawer menu. Editing Friends list also moved, from Settings to the Friends page: tap the pencil icon in the top right corner to edit it.
Please try it out, and as always, if there are any crashes, please post feedback here. I hope you enjoy the new features.
Note: currently, friends statuses on the friends page only show when you have "Background Notifications" and notifications for "Friend Activity" enabled. That also means the Friend page relies on the background update check for friend activity. You might need to reload the Friends page to see statuses, after the background update finished. Later I'll try to separate these two processes, so statuses show up even when you opt-out of getting any notifications.

Download the new version in the attachments of original post.

Changes:

yes/43/MandulAA

Thanks for the feedback (both here and on the LFS Community Discord server's #programming channel)!

Update 0.6
Thanks for trying out the initial release.
New in 0.6, friends management and alert for a friend joining a server is now available! I also included new screenshots where you can see the friend alert and the friends list screen (you can access it in Settings - Manage Friends). Please try it out, and as always, if there are any crashes, please post feedback here. I hope you enjoy the new features. Note: the friend notification isn't instant, as the app is still bound to the 15-min background update interval.
I also plan creating a Friends page in the app, where you can see your friends' statuses and/or current servers which they are connected to.

Check the original post to download the new version.

Changelog:

Last edited by MandulAA, Fri 29 May 2020, 14:27. Reason : "LFS DC" -> "LFS Community DC"

That's a great alternative, as well! Thanks Flame.

LFS Stats for Android

LFS Stats is an app for Android devices which retrieves and shows public LFSW stats, so it can be used on-the-go, without having to open the browser.

The app is not perfect, EXPECT some bugs! I just started to dive in Android development recently. If you encounter ANY bugs, crashes or errors, please let me know here in this thread (explain the situation - what screen were you on, what did you press last time, screen orientation, connection status, etc.). If you post the error log here (or send the error log in a PM or email: [email protected]), I would be grateful for that - it helps me debug and fix errors. If you have any suggestions about features, design or anything related to the app, feel free to post them here as well. It would be nice to hear feedback! I'd like to get this app on Play Store some day, so updates are easier for me and for you as well, but that requires registering a developer account (and paying the registration fee) on Play Store which I currently do not have. For now, I'll post any updates to the app here in this thread. Huge thanks to the LFS developers for their incredible racing simulation, LFSWorld statistics website and the Pubstat system which makes this app work!

LFS Stats is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Features

Current features:

• Notifications:
  • on a friend joining an online server
    
  • on new hotlaps uploaded to LFSW (WR (default) / Top 10 / Top 50 / ALL)
    
• Retrieve and list:
  • hotlap upload log (filter by: ALL, WR, Top 10 or Top 50), landscape view recommended to avoid data not showing up, also you can see Splits in landscape mode
    
  • hotlap charts (of a specific combo). WRs are highlighted bold, own hotlaps are light green and friends' hotlaps are light blue.
    
  • hotlaps by a racer
    
  • online stats of a racer (including current or last status, host and car/track combo)
    
  • server browser (online hosts)
    
• Friends list, their status, current server and last seen information
  

Background updates notifications are off by default and can be turned on in Settings. Currently, each background update takes about ~35 kilobytes (this may vary in the future, when new notification features get added). The notification also shows the splits of a hotlap (when you expand the notification - drag it down a little to peek inside). It is possible to restrict the app from using Mobile Data for background notifications only (in the app Settings). You can also choose the background update interval (every 15, 30 minutes and every hour).

Planned features:

• alert when a friend sets a new hotlap / reaches milestones (stats)
  
• alert for new hotlaps on specific combos
  
• online PB's of a racer
  
• tapping the hotlap notification not only opens app but brings you to the hotlap chart for the combo
  
• list sorting for hotlaps
  
• language selector
  
• dark mode
  
• teams list
  
• ability to open browser to get LFSW Ident-Key so you can copy it and paste it back to the app easily
  
• home screen with some online activity graphs / data
  
• widgets (server status with player list, online friend list)
  
• + I'm open to suggestions!
  

Install and Setup

As the app is not on Play Store yet (for reasons described in the description above), by default, Android blocks installing third-party apps on devices. You have to allow installing apps from "Unknown sources" in your device settings -> Security -> Unknown sources (Allow installation of apps from sources other than the Play Store). Depending on your device, this switch might be somewhere else in your device settings (under Lock screen and Security; Advanced settings; Apps -> Upper right menu: Special access -> Install unknown apps; etc.).
The first time you start the app, you must enter your 32-chars long Ident-Key that you can generate on LFSWorld: LFSW -> My LFSW Settings -> Pubstat access tab. Make sure to NOT bind the Ident-Key to an IP, and do not allow premium usage (just to make sure your LFS balance remains untouched, as the app can't make use of premium usage right now). You can change your Ident-Key later in Settings in the app.

Download

Current version: 0.8.4.
See post attachments to download the latest version, in a .zip file. If you install the new version of top of the version on your device, saved settings should be kept (ident-key, username, notification preferences etc.). If you notice any anomalies upon upgrading, please let me know and provide as much details as you can.

Requirements

Android 5.0 and up.

Permissions

Currently, the app doesn't request any special permissions that a user has to grant upon installation or during using the app. The app uses the following permissions, granted automatically by the Android system:
- Network access

Changelog

Screenshots

[see attachments]

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 6 May 2024, 12:58. Reason : 0.8.4

Hi!

I've noticed that the devs (mainly Victor, probably) created a new "Online" page here on LFS.net with a new activity graph recently, but since I can't embed that on a website (or app) yet, I'd like to ask about the old one which is on the LFSW Home.
Is it possible to change the text size of the numbers on the Online Graph with a parameter? We currently have the 'text', 'width', 'height', 'bgcol' and 'col' parameters. Is there one for the text size?
Current example:
Thanks!

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 18 May 2020, 20:51. Reason : typo

Quote from Scawen :

Update: We have now fixed a network error, so the old versions should work again now.

Might be a little offtopic, but since the server maintenance, https://www.lfs.net/news page throws a HTTP Error 500. (LFSManual also threw some errors today, but it seems like you guys got it fixed already )

EDIT: it works now!

Last edited by MandulAA, Thu 14 May 2020, 14:51. Reason : fixed

yes/43/MandulAA

Yeah, sad to see these kind of videos. I disliked it, that's all we can do I'm afraid.

Great race and video! You should include the race results table, or maybe just the Top3 as the outro

(we just finished, like 30 minutes ago, a Rockingham Sportscar + UFR race in the TRR 2020 Championship )

Quote from goupeinou :

I have a question about the S3 linence. When I look on my account I have S3 so I should be have access for all contents but I can't see the Rockingham circuit and I just have the international configuration in Westhill. It's normal?

If you are using the latest version 0.6U:

• you should see and be able to play all Westhill configurations at the same time
  
• for Rockingham: check if, on the main menu landing page, in the lower right corner where it says "S2 license: username" if it's S2 or S3. If it's still S2, click that button and try to re-unlock LFS - it should unlock S3 content then
  

EDIT: If you are not using 0.6U like Rony said, update your LFS client

Welcome back!
As for streaming, I fully recommend https://simbroadcasts.tv/ !

Each license upgrade price is 9GBP for you.
If you buy S1 now you pay 9 GBP, later if you upgrade S1 to S2, you'll pay another 9 GBP.
In the end, it doesnt matter if you upgrade license gradually or just go straight to S2/S3. You'll pay the same amount of money both ways.

Quote from BestRex :

Upgrading computer to keep playing very old videogame that I've been playing for ~15 years now? That sounds ridiculous! Old games should work with old hardware - that's the thing.

Wait ... you tag LFS "a very old game" because you have been playing it for a long time and that's it? The fact that it has been around for a very long time (fortunately), doesn't mean it did not evolve with each update - that's the point (be it a hotfix-like small update or a huge graphical update)!

Quote from BestRex :

And, by the way, do I asking to add something new and/or complex to the game? NO. I'm just asking developers to not cut out what this game already has for ~15 years already - which is Direct3D 9 support. Just don't cut out things - how hard can it be???

I'm no programmer myself but have been interested in and following the process, so in my honest opinion, yes, you do ask a quite complex and time-consuming work - there would be two versions and both of them would need to be maintained and tested thoroughly with each update.

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 27 Apr 2020, 10:26.

I'm no programmer myself, but you might find this interesting. Recently, Live telemetry data has become available in a new customizable OutSim packet: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/93701
There's a float parameter for Angular velocity (AngVel) in radians/s in the OutSimWheel data structure of the new OutSimPack. Maybe you could use that

rg #43

yes/43/MandulAA

43/MandulAA/Dániel Balla/Hungary/XRR/Race Green Autosports

Last edited by MandulAA, Sat 18 Apr 2020, 20:05.

Well, you don't really have to wait (max a day), cause there are events every day! https://www.lfs.net/leagues/calendar
Also, there are some multiclass public racing servers online and populated these days (AA multiclass or TRR servers)

I just want to add: #4 and #5 don't just happen, like apples grow on trees.
Adding wet conditions and new tracks isn't just a push of a button or 2 lines of code. While I'm not a developer myself, I can imagine wet conditions require a LOT of coding, also, creating and designing tracks takes a lot of time and creativity. I'm sure devs want to add these down the road.

Upvoted, I hope this event gets big!
For even more info or questions, there is also a Subforum here on the LFS Forums: https://www.lfs.net/forum/471-Buggyra-Zero-Mileage-GT-Cup

I know you got it fixed, but include the solution so others who face this issue can see it Was it your rented server set to demo/s1/s2 mode while loading up an S3 track?

Quote from TFalke55 :

Anyone on discord or teamspeak later for this race? With the whole event taking about four hours I'd love to have some people around to talk to or to be talked to by.

I created a voice channel for RG Events on our Discord server. Make sure to join our server using this link: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD