After putting a live ADSB map on this blog, I wanted something similar that runs on my cars Android Auto along with liveATC.net streams of air traffic control tower radios. ADSB Auto is a full-screen map of nearby traffic, fed from my atm.abkmj.com feed and tapping into the live audio streams.
Demo
What it does
- Live map with aircraft icons and callsigns (same general look as the ADSB Exchange globe)
- Pan the map; tap a plane for basic details
- Zoom and recenter (recenter uses your phone’s GPS)
- Optional LiveATC: pick favorite controller towers on the phone, play or pause the stream in the car
Data comes from the same API that powers my ADSB Display site. It’s a personal app built with Google’s Android for Cars libraries. For a real head unit, Google expects a Play-distributed build; I use internal testing for that so far.
Trying it
Its not ready for publishing publicly yet but I can invite a few people to test it out themselves. I can send a Google Play internal testing invite link (closed tester list through the Play Console developer program).
Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Related posts: live map on the blog, ADSB display project.