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EVE Buddy
A companion app for Eve Online players available on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.
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Description
EVE Buddy is a companion app for Eve Online players. It has three key features:
- Give you access to your characters without having to log into the Eve client or switching your current Eve character
- Provide you with helpful functions, that the Eve client is lacking, like asset search across all your characters
- Notify you about important game events (e.g. structure attacked) and new Eve mails
[!IMPORTANT] This is an early version and not yet considered fully stable. We would very much appreciate your feedback, so we can find and squash remaining bugs. If you encounter any problems please feel free to open an issue or chat with us on our Discord server in the support channel #evebuddy.
Some features may not be fully implemented yet (e.g. some notification types). Our current focus is on bug fixing, rather then adding more features. But if you are missing anything important, please feel free to open a feature request.
We very much welcome any contributions. If you like to provide a fix or add a feature please feel free top open a PR.
Features
A more detailed overview of the provided features:
- Information about each character:
- Assets: Browse through your assets at all your locations
- Character: Current clone, jump clones, and more...
- Mails: Full mail client for receiving and sending Eve mails
- Communications: Browse through all communications
- Planets: Status of PI colonies
- Skills: Training queue, catalogue of all trained skills and what ships can be flown
- Wallet: Wallet and Wallet Transactions
- Combined view over all characters:
- Overview (e.g. wallet, skill points, location)
- Assets search: Full asset search across all your characters
- Show list of all planetary industry colonies
- Wealth: Charts showing wealth distribution across all characters
- Can minimize to system tray and show indicator for new mail (desktop only)
- Get notified about important events (e.g. structure attacked, training queue expired)
- Desktop & mobile version
- Automatic dark and light theme
- Offline mode
Highlights
Asset browser for each character
You can browse the assets of a character by location. The view by location is similar to the in-game view when docked.
Full mail client
You can receive, send and delete eve mails. Similar to the in-game mail client.
Planetary Industry
You can see the current status of your PI colonies. And you can also get notifications when an extraction has expired.
Overview of all characters
The overview pages gives you key information about all you characters at a glance.
Asset search across all characters
You can search for assets across all characters.
Colonies of all characters
You can see all colonies used for planetey industry from all your characters at a glance.
Wealth charts across all characters
The wealth page gives you a graphical overview of your total wealth (= wallets + asset value) and contains breakdowns that help you better understand the structure of your wealth.
Notifications
EVE Buddy can send notifications on your local device to notify about new communications, mails, expired training queues and more.
Mobile version
EVE Buddy also works on Android and has a mobile friendly navigation:
| Character navigation | Mail browser | Asset browser |
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Installing
To install EVE buddy just download the latest release from the releases page to your computer or mobile. The app ships as a single executable file that can be run directly. When you run the app for the first time it will automatically install itself for the current user (i.e. by creating folders in the home folder for the current user).
Please also see the detailed instructions for each platform / installation method:
You find the latest packages for download on the releases page.
Linux
[!NOTE] The app is shipped in the AppImage format, so it can be used without requiring installation and run on many different Linux distributions.
- Download the latest AppImage file from the releases page and make it executable.
- Execute it to start the app.
[!TIP] Should you get the following error:
AppImages require FUSE to run., you need to first install FUSE on your system. Thi s is a library required by all AppImages to function. Please see this page for details.
Windows
- Download the windows zip file from the latest release on Github.
- Unzip the file into a directory of your choice and run the .exe file to start the app.
Mac OS
- Download the darwin zip file from the latest release on Github for your respective platform (arm or intel).
- Unzip the file into a directory of your choice
- Run the .app file to start the app.
[!TIP] MacOS may report this app incorrectly as "damaged", because it is not signed with an Apple certificate. You can remove this error by opening a terminal and running the following command. For more information please see Fyne Troubleshooting:
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "EVE Buddy.app"
Android
[!NOTE] Please note that the app can currently be only installed from the release page and is currently not available in any of the Android app stores.
- Make sure you have enabled in settings that you can install from your web browser (For detailed instructions please see How to install Unknown Sources applications in Android)
- Navigate to the github releases page in your mobile browser
- Select to download the latest EVE_Buddy.apk file from the release page (this can take a minute)
- When prompted choose to install the file / open the file with the default installer
- In case you get a security warning from Google Play Protect:
- Select "More details"
- Select "Install anyway"
- Once installation is complete: Select "open" to start the app.
[!TIP] If you want to use EVE Buddy's notification features you need to allow the app to keep running in the background. This is a setting for the app under Batter > Usage and called "Unrestricted". For details instructions please see How to prevent apps from 'sleeping' in the background on Android.
Build from source
It is also possible to build and run the app directly from the source on the github repository. For that to work your system needs to be setup for building Fyne apps, which requires you to have installed the Go tools, a C compiler and a systems graphics driver. For details please see Fyne - Getting started.
When you have all necessary tools installed, you can build and run this app direct from the repository with:
go run github.com/ErikKalkoken/evebuddy@latest
Updating
The app will inform you when there is a new version available for download. To update your app just download and install the newest version for your platform from the releases page.
Uninstalling
If you no longer want to use the app you can uninstall it.
Desktop
The desktop versions has an special app for removing our data:
First start the delete app for removing your user data:
./evebuddy --delete-data
This command will ask for confirmation and then delete user data from your computer like characters, log files, etc.
Then delete the file itself:
rm evebuddy
Mobile
On mobile you can uninstall the app via the Android Settings and it will also remove all data.
Troubleshooting
The app has an application log and a crash file that can help with trouble shooting. You can export both logs from the Settings menu in the General section.
To view the logs on mobile you might want to install another app. While there are many decent apps for viewing log and text files on the Google Play store, we can recommend the following two apps:
- For viewing log files: LogLog
- For viewing txt files: Text Viewer
FAQ
Where can I get support?
Fo bugs and feature requests please open an issue in the GitHub repository.
For support and any other questions please join us on in our channel #eve-buddy on this Discord server.
What safety measures are taken to protect my character data and token?
EVE Buddy is designed to protect your character data and token and has implemented the following safety measures:
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All character data and tokens retrieved from CCP's servers are stored on your local computer only. Your data is therefore safe as long as you prevent any unauthorized access to the data on your computer.
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EVE Buddy also does not log any tokens (they are replaced with the text
REDACTED). It is therefore safe to share your logs with maintainers for troubleshooting. -
EVE Buddy is fully compliant with the requirements for OAuth 2.0 for Mobile or Desktop Applications from CCP.
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In case you need to switch computers you can remove your data with the delete app.
Why do I not see all of my character's data in the app?
Server limitations
CCP's servers have limitations on how far back some character data can be retrieved.
Here is an overview of some limitations:
- Wallet journal: 30 days, 2.500 entries
- Wallet transaction: 2.500 entries
However, EVE Buddy will keep all historic data once retrieved. For example: If you allow EVE Buddy to update on a regular basis, it will be able to keep a record of your wallet transactions over many months and years.
Structures
A special case are Upwell structures. Access to structures depends on in-game docking rights. Unfortunately, it is not possible to later retrieve the name or location of a structure, which the character no longer has access to. For example character assets might be displayed in an "unknown structure".
Credits
"EVE", "EVE Online", "CCP", and all related logos and images are trademarks or registered trademarks of CCP hf.
Documentation
Source Files
Directories
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internal
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app
Package app is the root package of all domain related packages.
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Package app is the root package of all domain related packages. |
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app/assetcollection
Package assetcollection provides data structures to analyze and process asset data.
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Package assetcollection provides data structures to analyze and process asset data. |
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app/character
package goesi contains helpers used in conjunction with the goesi package
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package goesi contains helpers used in conjunction with the goesi package |
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app/chartbuilder
Package chartbuilder provides a chart builder for rending themed Fyne charts.
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Package chartbuilder provides a chart builder for rending themed Fyne charts. |
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app/esistatus
Package esistatus contains the ESI status service.
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Package esistatus contains the ESI status service. |
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app/evenotification
Package evenotification contains the business logic for dealing with Eve Online notifications.
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Package evenotification contains the business logic for dealing with Eve Online notifications. |
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app/eveuniverse
Package eveuniverse contains the Eve universe service.
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Package eveuniverse contains the Eve universe service. |
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app/icon
Package icon contains all bundeled app icons.
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Package icon contains all bundeled app icons. |
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app/pcache
Package pcache implements a persistent cache.
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Package pcache implements a persistent cache. |
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app/statuscache
Package characterstatus is a service which provides cached access to the current update status of general and character sections.
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Package characterstatus is a service which provides cached access to the current update status of general and character sections. |
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app/storage
Package sqlite contains the logic for storing application data into a local SQLite database.
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Package sqlite contains the logic for storing application data into a local SQLite database. |
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app/storage/testutil
Package factory contains factories for creating test objects in the repository
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Package factory contains factories for creating test objects in the repository |
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app/ui/desktop
Package desktop contains the code for rendering the desktop UI.
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Package desktop contains the code for rendering the desktop UI. |
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app/ui/mobile
Package mobile contains the code for rendering the mobile UI.
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Package mobile contains the code for rendering the mobile UI. |
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app/widget
Package widget contains custom widgets with app dependencies.
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Package widget contains custom widgets with app dependencies. |
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cache
Package cache implements a simple in-memory cache.
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Package cache implements a simple in-memory cache. |
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deleteapp
Package deleteapp contains the Fyne app for deleting the current users's data.
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Package deleteapp contains the Fyne app for deleting the current users's data. |
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evehtml
Package evehtml provides converters to deal with Eve Online HTML.
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Package evehtml provides converters to deal with Eve Online HTML. |
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eveicon
Package eveicon provides access to Eve online icons as Fyne resource.
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Package eveicon provides access to Eve online icons as Fyne resource. |
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eveimage
Package eveimage provides cached access to images from the Eve Online image server.
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Package eveimage provides cached access to images from the Eve Online image server. |
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fynetree
Package fynetree contains a type that makes using Fyne tree widgets easier.
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Package fynetree contains a type that makes using Fyne tree widgets easier. |
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github
package github contains features for accessing repos on Github.
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package github contains features for accessing repos on Github. |
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httptransport
Package http provides custom http transport implementations.
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Package http provides custom http transport implementations. |
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humanize
Package humanize transforms values into more user friendly representations.
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Package humanize transforms values into more user friendly representations. |
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migrate
Package migrate provides a simple mechanism for dealing with migrations of a SQLite database.
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Package migrate provides a simple mechanism for dealing with migrations of a SQLite database. |
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optional
Package optional provides the generic type Optional, which represents an optional value.
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Package optional provides the generic type Optional, which represents an optional value. |
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set
Package set implements a generic set container type.
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Package set implements a generic set container type. |
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sso
Package sso provides the ability to authenticate characters with the Eve Online SSO API for desktop apps.
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Package sso provides the ability to authenticate characters with the Eve Online SSO API for desktop apps. |
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syncqueue
Package syncqueue provides queues for cuncurrent use.
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Package syncqueue provides queues for cuncurrent use. |
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widget
Package widgets contains custom widgets for this app.
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Package widgets contains custom widgets for this app. |
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tools
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