Feedback on RidgeScout scouting app

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Hello, I am a member of 4388 Ridgebotics, and I have spent several months developing a new scouting app for our team. Here is an overview of some of the main features of the app:

For one, the app is written for Android. We had some problems with laptop charging, and the ability to charge the tablets using an external power bank is a great improvement over last year.

The biggest advantage of this app is it’s flexibility. It’s scouting input is built around a system similar to ScoutingPass, where there are multiple different types of fields (Text input, checkbox, etc) that can be used to collect different types of data. The main difference is that these fields can be edited on the fly within the app, and the data does not get corrupted.

Another crucial advantage of this app, is the ability to disable any data input a scouter did not collect. This was a large problem we ran into in previous years, for example a scouter would enter “0” for the number of notes that a team has collected in a match, which would throw off all the data.

Here is some more info if you are curios:

  • The program is meant to run offline, but we are going to work on using an FTP server for cloud storage and syncing between devices

  • There are in-app analytics, they are by each type of field, and there are multiple different modes. I will add more info about this when I write the docs.

  • The app will hopefully soon be available on F-Droid.

We would really like to hear your feedback on this! I believe this is the first Ridgebotics has gone public with any kind of project like this.

FYI, this project is still very much in development, so if you find any problems, open an issue in the repo.

Source code: GitHub - Team4388/ScoutingApp2025: Ridgebotics 2025 scouting app in Android
Releases: Releases · Team4388/ScoutingApp2025 · GitHub

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I like the design goal of being able to add and remove fields without data corruption.

I see a few screenshots on the Github page. Is that the full scouting interface? I doesn’t seem like a lot of info to collect. Most scouting apps collect amp vs speaker scoring this year as well as behaviors like passing. Maybe your intent is that it is easy to add more fields? Most scouting apps come with all the fields you need.

Do you have installation instructions somewhere? I don’t know how to use the .apk file you provide.

One minor thing: there is a spelling error in your README. “loosing” should be “losing”.

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Thank you for your reply! And sorry it has taken me so long to reply.

  • I’ve now written the wiki, here: Home · Team4388/ScoutingApp2025 Wiki · GitHub
  • The app is now available on F-Droid, though is is not up to date with the github release
  • There are more input fields than are visible in the image, the view scrolls down
  • The apk installation is simple, you have to open the Android file explorer, and find where the APK is located on the device, and then tap it to install it. More info is in the Wiki