I am Reading this story on February 18, 2020. This version of Garmin Pilot is not presently available in the Google Play Store. I hope this isn’t Garmin’s attempt to transition to the iPad only. If I have to buy an iPad to get these features, I might as well switch over to Fore Flight. I chose Garmin Pilot because it is the best tool that works on Android.
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Garmin has (almost) always rolled out new features to the iPad version first. These features will eventually make it to the Android version (it typically seems to be a couple months later). I do wish they would align the iPad and Android versions a little closer though, so I know that version X.Y has Z features.
I was really excited until I quickly realized that this was for the iPad version of Pilot. I agree with the above - if I have to go the iPad route I will move to Fore Flight. Just makes sense for that platform.
If they could ever get the Android version to download and install updates better I would be satisfied with that.
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Why switch, though? ForeFlight would have a pretty steep learning curve to have to re-learn how to do everything you already do with Garmin Pilot. I use Pilot on both my larger Android tablet (Galaxy Tab S6) and a smaller iPad Mini (there are no high-quality Android tablets in that form-factor, which I prefer when flying helicopters), plus my Android phone, all under the same subscription.
I agree that it’d be nice if Garmin rolled out updates to the Android version quicker, but it does at least make sense that they’d try to capture the largest share of users (iPad) first.
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> The largest share of users first
Oh. Then you mean Android with 74% of the market. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide