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Nigeria Airspace Analytics for Android

The ADSBNG platform on your phone — live aircraft over Nigeria, observed flights, and airport analytics. Everything in it is something the receiver network actually heard.

Nigeria Airspace Analytics

Version 1.0.0 (1) · Android 7.0 and above · about 189 MB

FREE
Download APK · 189 MB

It is a large file. Use Wi-Fi if you can — 189 MB is a real cost on mobile data. The download is one file and installs offline once it has finished.

Coming to Google Play. The listing is prepared and not yet submitted — this page will switch over when it is live.

When it reaches Google Play

You will update in place. This build is signed with the same key the Play listing will use, so Play recognises it as the same app: the update installs over it and your API key and settings stay where they are. That is the reason this download waited for the key.

What the app does

Live airspace

Every aircraft currently being received, on a full-screen map — altitude, speed, heading and vertical rate, updated as reports arrive. Nigeria’s airports are fixed markers, each opening its own traffic summary.

Observed flights

Domestic movements reconstructed from position data, newest first, filterable by airport, airline or date. A leg with no arrival is shown with no arrival — the aircraft left coverage, and the app says so rather than guessing.

Airports and airlines

Movement counts by day and by hour, which carriers fly which routes and how consistently, and the busiest hours — observed rather than scheduled.

ADSBNG AI

Ask about the airspace in plain English. Answers are computed from the platform’s own data with the figures shown, so you can check them.

Daily brief and alerts

A morning summary of what the network saw, and push notifications for the aircraft you are watching.

Aircraft broadcast their position, altitude and speed; ADSBNG receivers decode those transmissions and the app reports what was received. Nothing is estimated and nothing is filled in from a schedule — so coverage gaps appear as gaps. It is not an official source of flight times, and it is not for navigation.

Installing it

Android blocks installs from outside the Play Store until you allow the browser that downloaded the file. This is the normal path for an app distributed directly, and the prompts differ a little between phone makers:

  1. Tap Download APK above and let it finish.
  2. Open the file — from the download notification, or from your Files app's Downloads folder.
  3. Android will say installs from this source are not allowed. Tap Settings on that prompt and turn on Allow from this source, then go back.
  4. Tap Install.
  5. If Play Protect warns about an unrecognised app, choose Install anyway. It says that about every app not yet distributed through Play, including this one — verify the checksum below if you want certainty rather than reassurance.
  6. Open NG Airspace — that is the launcher name; Android has room for about twelve characters, so the full title only appears in the store.

Turn Allow from this source back off afterwards if you prefer. The app is already installed at that point and does not need it again.

Verifying the download

Optional, and the only way to be certain the file you have is the file that was published. Compare this SHA-256 against your copy:

9ec412c6c9e8f251d39612777c2e6d5058ad1f439e1c331560f8f0c9a4d69263

On Windows (PowerShell):

Get-FileHash .\NigeriaAirspaceAnalytics-1.0.0.apk -Algorithm SHA256

On macOS or Linux:

shasum -a 256 NigeriaAirspaceAnalytics-1.0.0.apk

If the two strings differ, delete the file and download it again — do not install it.

What it asks for

An app installed outside the Play Store has no listing page to tell you this, so here it is. The app requests:

  • Network state — so the app can tell “you’re offline” from “the server erred” instead of spinning forever.
  • Notifications — for watchlist alerts and the daily brief. Requested when you turn them on, not at launch.
  • Vibration, and wake/boot receivers — so a scheduled notification survives a reboot.

And what it never asks for, by explicit exclusion:

  • Location — the map shows aircraft positions from the network; where you are standing is irrelevant to that.
  • Storage, camera and microphone.
  • Display over other apps — the app has no overlay UI, and this one is stripped explicitly.

Those exclusions are enforced in the build, not just left out of a list — the permissions are stripped from the app's manifest so they cannot be requested at all. Full detail in the privacy policy.

Or install the web app

If you would rather not install an APK, or you are on iPhone, the site itself installs as an app — same platform, no download, works on iOS and Android:

  • Android (Chrome) — menu Add to Home screen
  • iPhone (Safari) — Share Add to Home Screen

It opens full-screen without browser chrome and keeps you signed in. Push notifications and the offline map cache are the two things only the Android app does better.