Aura for Eve Online is a mobile app for the Android mobile operating system (version 2.1 and up), which, as simply put by its creator Jason Parks (a.k.a., capsuleer "Marcel Devereux" in the universe of New Eden), "is an application to track and monitor your characters for EVE Online."
As of this writing, Aura for EVE Online has reached version 1.0.4, completely rewritten and considerably matured from the RC versions that preceded it. If you loaded it on your phone before, but took it off, as did I last year, it's now well worth reloading for another look.
Aura's two most useful features, especially for those with too many characters on multiple accounts, are the notification feature and the main "Pilots" character menu (pictured left; click to enlarge).
As we all know, there's nothing more critical to virtual happiness in the universe of EVE than keeping that skill queue running non-stop 24/7, 365 days a year, even when you don't have time to devote to online activity. And there's nothing more tragic than getting podded and losing skill points due to a clone you simply forgot to update.
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The notification function will send you standard mobile phone notifications, with rattle and/or sound of your choice, tipping you off to changes in skill queue status and out of date clones. The main character menu lets you check at a glance your character account totals and each skill queue's current item and remaining queue length. Skill queues that will reach that alarming state of emptiness within 24 hours are called to your attention in red text.
Within minutes of installing Aura on my Droid phone and configuring notification in "Settings," I received a warning that two alts' clones were out of date. I was sold on keeping Aura on my phone, right then and there.
