3 months ago, Anonymous Pork
Not bad, and yet terrible
I got a SkyRider drone, bought replacement batteries for it, and got it in the air. It’s not a bad drone, the best one I’ve had so far. But I could only do so much with just the controller. I needed to get the app in order to get camera data. I downloaded the app, and immediately noticed the stretched look of it. It seemed to be made for 16:9 screens, whereas iPhones have a 2.16:1 aspect ratio. So instead of redesigning the GUI for the entire app, the developers just stretched it to fit. Next, I linked my drone to the app and started recording video. On the packaging of the drone it doesn’t say anything about the quality of the camera. And now I knew why. It could only stream 640:480 pixels of video. Not only that, but the quality was terrible. No white balance, no brightness compensation, and no onboard video capture. All of the video data was saved on the phone, which is a recipe for terrible fps and lag. The worst part, however, was that you cannot save media from the app. It has to be saved in photos, and if you turn that off, you have no way to move the media out of the app other than screenshots. I still had fun regardless of these flaws, and have a lot of good memories made with this app. I thought fly by phone tilt was cool. But it was a pretty bad app.
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