A tricorder for Android
Anyone who has followed the different Star Trek movies and series, and especially the Trekkies, will know what a tricorder is. It's a device capable of scanning, analyzing data and communicating with other analysis and scan applications.
The United Federation of Planets needs you
Well, if you ever wanted to have a tricorder on your Android, you've now got the chance to download its APK. We're talking about Trycorder, a tool or whatever you want to call it released by F-Droid and that recreates this device on our smartphone or tablet.
Carry out complete medium analyses on all the planets you discover.
However, making the most of the possibilities offered by modern mobile phones, especially Android that didn't even exist when the famous TV series was conceived, it allows us to carry out all these functions:
- It looks, feels, and sounds like a tricorder from the United Federation of Planets.
- Scan your surroundings: temperature, pressure, light, magnetism, gravity, orientation... or maybe not but who knows.
- Control the device with voice commands.
- Take photos and record videos of everything you come across on the new planets you discover.
- Control your own spaceship remotely.
- Chat with other users from all over the world.
- Check the operations log.
- View the phasers, torpedos, and transport operations on the sensor's screen.
- The application can be used in space that you and your smartphone are ready to travel to space.
Well then, if you want to have a tricorder on your Android and become part of the Enterprise's crew, don't wait any longer.
Requirements and additional information:
- Minimum operating system requirements: Android 4.1.
- The installation of the app by means of the APK file requires the activation of the "Unknown sources" option within Settings>Applications.
With a degree in History, and later, in Documentation, I have over a decade of experience testing and writing about apps: reviews, guides, articles, news, tricks, and more. They have been countless, especially on Android, an operating system...
Antony Peel