FlightCheck — Will It Fly?

My Samsung S25 is looking less like an S25 every day.

I’ve twisted the settings around to automate a few tasks, installed a couple of things from F-Droid, and loaded it up with some of my own experimental apps.

At this point, I don’t expect anybody else’s phone to look or behave anything like mine.

So when I build a new app and it runs perfectly on my phone, I have to ask myself:

If it flies on mine, will it fly anywhere else?

That’s why I’m building FlightCheck.

FlightCheck lets other people test my apps on their own devices, with their own settings, and their own ideas about how things should work.

I’m not asking anybody to write a technical report. Just try a few things and tell me:

• Does it work?
• Does it do what it’s supposed to?
• Does it look right?
• Is it easy to use?

If something breaks, tell me what happened. Maybe throw in a screenshot.

The Offline Test Form

I also wanted a way for people to test an app without having to stay connected to FlightCheck.

The idea is simple. Download a test form, take it along, and work through the app whenever you have time. You can test on the couch, at lunch, or somewhere without an internet connection.

Record what works, what doesn’t, and anything that seems odd. When you’re back online, submit your results to FlightCheck.

You don’t have to test everything in one sitting, either. A few features today and a few more tomorrow are perfectly fine.

The whole point is to make testing easy enough that people will actually do it.

Still in the Hangar

Right now, FlightCheck is running on my internal network, behind a firewall, on my test server.

It’s not publicly accessible yet, and that’s intentional. I’m still testing the testing software. There’s a little irony in that.

Once I’ve worked through the remaining issues, FlightCheck will move to a public server so volunteers can start putting my apps through their paces.

I expect FlightCheck to go live soon.

A pre-flight safety check catches small mechanical or operational problems.

I’d rather find those problems on the ground than discover them after takeoff.