Plugins - CivTAK / ATAK

Very Low Bandwidth Voice Comms

March 23, 2026March 23, 2026 - 1 Comment

50x smaller/faster (TAK) Voice Comms (Bytes/Sec!). AI-powered. Translation-Capable. Simple Setup. This project is a total game-changer for anyone operating in bandwidth-starved environments. Thanks to the groundbreaking work by AFRL, Certus, and RTX/BBN, we are seeing a revolution in low-bandwidth voice chat. We’ve moved past Megabits and Kilobits—this voice technology is measured in Bytes per second. Why This Matters Current voice …

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Search & Rescue Plugin Released

March 23, 2026March 23, 2026 - Leave a Comment

AFRL developed some TAK-based tools for finding missing people — from lost hikers to downed pilots. They’ve made the civilian components public — both as a web based tool (separate post) and here as an ATAK plugin. This YouTube video explains how to use the tool and includes a link to Google Drive for the APK (This will eventually go …

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Current Satellite Imagery From Commercial Sources

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025 - Leave a Comment

SkyFi now provides direct integration to commercial high resolution satellite imagery through TAK. Technically they have been doing this for a while.

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ATAK Plugin Development Tutorial

December 4, 2024December 5, 2024 - Leave a Comment

Here’s an ATAK Plugin development tutorial. (multiple parts) with video from Godfrey Nolan, of RIIS. See the web pages as well as the videos. Part I: Part II:

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ARIK/Hammer Open Source Posted

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 - Leave a Comment

The source code for the ATAK Plugin which allows the communication of points/positions to be transmitted over analog/voice radios. The code allows transmission either by holding the phone to the speaker. The code is liable to be useful as a guide post for how to write ATAK plugins, as well as for the off-grid TAK communication. The plugin is not …

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Download “Built-in” Plugins That aren’t in the Play Store – ICU, TAK GeoCam, Image Markup, Night Vision

October 11, 2020October 12, 2020 - 5 Comments.

The standard version of ATAK that’s distributed by the TAK Product Center (TPC) includes several plugins/integrated apps with the APK (and the whole thing is marked “Distribution A; Approved For Public Release; Distribution unlimited”. However, these plugins are not part of the Play Store distribution, because of policy limitations on Google’s part. Therefore, I’ve included them here for download. Note …

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Virtual OpenTAK Conference Thanks!!!

October 11, 2020October 12, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Thanks from the OpenTAK Conference organizers.

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OpenTAK Virtual Conference Saturday

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 - Leave a Comment

OpenTAK Conference this weekend. Registration is limited.

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SDK Released; CivTAK Open Sourced

July 10, 2020December 23, 2020 - 3 Comments.

Update: The SDK is now available for download. The SDK for CivTAK has been released by the TAK Product Center. You can find it here. CivTAK 4.0.7 has also been Open Sourced using the GPL 3 License. You can find that source code here. The next step is likely be CivTAK in the Google Play Store. Update: The SDK has …

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CivTAK 4.0.7 Has Been Released

June 25, 2020August 7, 2020 - 15 Comments.

CivTAK 4.0.7 has been released. This is the enterprise-quality, “F-35 of Geospatial Collaboration” official, plugin-capable release of CivTAK. You can get it here. Its the most capable geospatial collaboration tool out there at any price. T-Rex recommended that iPhone users go buy an Android to try it out it is so powerful.

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