Ian Hawkins

Torque dedicated website coming soon

Hard at work at the next big version update for Torque, including a dedicated website for the online component. Forums will be moved over when everything is complete!

WinterSun MMORPG for Android

Here’s something else I’m working on – an MMORPG for Android called “WinterSun”. It’s in closed beta at the moment but hopefully it will be released soon.
The video shows a small part of the game engine, networked to a server (this is very optimised so it can run on very basic GPRS, as well as [...]

Torque videos

Here is a video of Torque ‘Jesse’ made and posted on YouTube!

Pretty cool! In fact a number of people have uploaded videos of Torque to YouTube!

Theme support in Torque v1.1.8

Torque now has theme support, meaning you can now customise the screen to some degree to make it how you want it to look.
Perhaps you want to make the screen look like the rest of the dials in your car? or maybe you just don’t like the default look and feel of the screen. Here’s [...]

Torque and Extended (EOBD) PID support

Good news!
Torque now supports an easy way to add extended PIDs for any particular model of vehicle to the list of PIDs that you can monitor. This complements the existing custom PID editor so you now have a highly configurable OBD2 tool! If you have access to a list of EOBD PIDs for your vehicle [...]

Torque backgrounds and themes

Torque is always being improved thanks to useful feedback from the many people that use it,
and couple of requests back when Torque was first released asked if I could put something in to allow you to skin the application.
In most recent release of Torque (currently 1.1.3) you now have the option to change the background [...]

Torque OBD 2 engine diagnostics

Torque is an engine diagnostics application for Android that allows you to directly monitor your car engine control unit (ECU) and retrieve various information from the sensors connected to it as well as use your phones internal GPS and accelerometer sensors to graph other information such as acceleration
Torque can be used to view any [...]

LOL Sites funny picture viewer

LOL Sites for android combines several of the internets funniest sites (LOLCats/Icanhazcheezburger, Ihazahotdog, FAILBlog, ThereIFixedIt, etc) into a simple and easy to use lol viewer.
Separating it from other viewers is the ability to pre-cache the latest lols on your phone so you have no waiting time and the ability to configure many behavioural options for [...]

SpeedHUD Head Up Display

Speed HUD uses your GPS and phone screen to display your speed, direction and acceleration.
You can reverse the text so you can put your phone on your dashboard at night and see your speed on your windshield like a Head up Display (HUD)
Some features included are:

Logging / KML export to Google Earth
Speech support
Safety Camera [...]