SkyOS
- 8 Devlogs
- 12 Total hours
An aviation themed WebOS designed to convert your desktop into a digital cockpit!
Ship #2
My 3rd feature added to SkyOS is a nice little flight radar widget found at the bottom right corner of the desktop. I utilized the OpenSky API to display the number of aircraft in your area, and the callsign and altitude of the closest plane to your location. I will say the visual aspects of this feature was pretty easy to create, however is was the logic behind this that took some time to understand. Overall, I’m pretty happy about this feature! The only gripe I have is the limited amount of times you can call data from it, so I had to set the refresh rate to 60 seconds, which is a little slow.
After a little bit of playing around with js and getting some help from online tutorials, I was able to create a workspace system, similarly found on most operating systems like Windows 11 or most Linux distros. You can use this for multitasking and can have up to 5 workspaces open at once with different apps opened in each one, without fear of them closing when switching desktops!
I have added a new feature for SkyOS! Using Meteomatic’s Open Meteo API, I was able to implement a weather widget in the top right corner of the desktop workspace, so you can see the current temperature in the area you are currently in.
Ship #1
I have finally finished making the ACP (Audio Control Panel) app for SkyOS! It features 3 songs from msfs2020 and fsx, and features a song time display, and controls to skip and go back a track, and a play/pause button ofc.
Finished creating the wallpapers app, to switch the background to 3 different images, a Boeing 777, Airbus a350, or F-22.
At the time of making this devlog it is 12:14am. I am lwk exhausted, but just finished building my second, and so far most complicated app for SkyOS (in terms of the logic). It is a simple but functional Stopwatch cleverly called “Chrono”. I also want to mention ~1 hour out of the 3 hours logged in the second devlog, was spent building the chrono app
After a bit of struggle getting the formatting of the elements of SkyOS to work properly, I have finally finished my first app! I call it FlightLog, which is a place to type anything you want, and save it. It works similar to Windows 11’s NotePad application, but simpler.
Finally got a hang of html, and JS! Curently was able to build the basic framework of the onboarding window, and the top bar of SkyOS. I also put a stock image of a Soutwest 737-800 as the background, as it appropriately fits the theme of SkyOS.
