IF Cockpit Developer Toolkit: Level Up Your Cockpit Integration!

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Hello Infinite Flight Community and 3rd Party Developers!

We are thrilled to announce that our upcoming application, IF Cockpit, will soon be released to let you take your Infinite Flight experience to new heights! 🚀

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What is IF Cockpit?

IF Cockpit is a new, cutting-edge companion app that will allow users to seamlessly display and interact with live cockpit panels, all connected to their Infinite Flight simulator via their own network. From PFDs (Primary Flight Displays) to joystick controls, our goal is to provide the most immersive and realistic home cockpit environment outside of the simulator itself and the device it’s running on!

What’s the IF Cockpit Developer’s Toolkit?

To enable this experience, we are excited to unveil the IF Cockpit Developer Toolkit, specifically designed for the talented and innovative 3rd party developer community of Infinite Flight. This toolkit will allow developers to allow developers to create their own aircraft-specific panels, which can then be submitted to the Canadian Seagulls team for review, and upon approval - deployment to the app itself, where they can be sold for profit, with profits split between Canadian Seagull Studios Ltd and the developer in question, or made available for free according to the developer’s preference!

What Can You Do with the Toolkit?

  • Create Custom Panels & Instruments: Design your own cockpit panels, gauges, and instruments, and bring unique functionality and aesthetic styles tailored to any aircraft type available in Infinite Flight! Developers only need to have a working knowledge of CSS, HTML and JavaScript to dive right in!

  • Real-Time Data Integration: Access a feed of live data from IF during a flight and send custom commands via the Connect API to enhance the interactivity and realism of the cockpit experience, giving you lots of possibilities for your aircraft panel vision!

  • Test out your panel and debug: With the toolkit, you can test and debug your panel in a closed environment and use our built-in testing tools to simulate aircraft states without even needing to run an IF instance so that your debugging can be completed in-app!

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Why Should You Get Involved?

As a developer, the IF Cockpit Developer Toolkit allows you to:

  • Extend the Capabilities of Infinite Flight: Craft detailed cockpit panels that enhance both visuals and realism for Infinite Flight users.

  • Reach a Global Audience: Showcase your work to a community of thousands of Infinite Flight enthusiasts who are always looking to elevate their simulation experience.

How to Get Started

We’re inviting 3rd party developers to join our 3rd-party developer programme for the Developer Toolkit! You can download the toolkit and tinker with our environment here, and if you’d like to create a panel for submission to Canadian Seagull Studios Ltd, simply register your interest here (placeholder for sign-up link), and we’ll send you all the information you need to get started. Our team is ready to support you as you explore the toolkit’s full potential!

Stay tuned for more updates as we approach the release of IF Cockpit! We can’t wait to see the amazing panel creations and aircraft experience you bring to life with this toolkit! ✈️

Thank you, and happy developing!

– The Team at Canadian Seagull Studios Ltd

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Hey, when am i able to download this app and use it? I dont want to design the screens tho

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@oskar_Pawlus Thanks for the question.

Our current roadmap has us planning a beta release some time in December before Christmas – and we will send out an invite here in the IF Community.

After that, we are aiming for a first public release shortly after the new year.

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Thanks for the response :)
Its like an EFB right but you can make your own designs right?

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Not really - at least on day 1 it will be a panel/joystick app to accompany infinite flight by enhancing the cockpit experience with things like an A321 PFD - much like the one in the photo. There are more features that will come in the months and the year after of course!

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Oh, so live instruments?

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Yes, that’s more the core idea!

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Wow, you guys are making some pretty good creations in short time lol! This is a really great idea! I remember asking if there was a service like this last year for fun, finally, there is! Just two questions though;

  1. this can be connected from a diff device, right?

  2. do you have plans on ever adding a weather radar/map?

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@Anthony_Gulluscio Thanks for the questions. We’re glad you see the value in this type of application.

IF Cockpit is currently targeted at desktop/laptop computers as companion devices to your phone or tablet running IF. The first version will be for Mac OS and we are exploring Windows to follow if viable.

About your question re: weather radar/map – the whole concept of IF Cockpit is that it is providing an application with a framework that enables any developer – us or other third-party devs – to extend the application with new panels/instruments. Nothing would prevent someone from building some form of weather radar/map suitable for IF but this is not something we plan to build for our day one release but it is the type of thing we are considering in our roadmap.

We will release a public roadmap closer to the time of release of the app – so stay tuned!

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Thanks! Wish you guys luck with the project; really neat idea!

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omg MY A320 COCKPIT IS COMPLETE BABY!

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will it be on ipad?

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Looking forward to see this evolve!

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The app is targeted at desktop/laptop computers as companion devices to an ipad/phone being used for flying on IF. We are looking at options for an iPad variant as well but this is not in our immediate roadmap.

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So this is what we were talking about on discord?!!?! YIPPEEE!

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Thanks! I will be using this every flight with my wood a320 cockpit

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will there be oberhead panels and stiff

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It’s entirely possible for people to make overhead/pedestal-style panels if they wish!

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I hope this releases soon!

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Hi @Abif12 …

Check our earlier message in this thread for info on our target timeline: