Aviate

If there’s one app I’ve always been jealous of from the iPhone, it’s Flighty, a super-useful flight tracker that not only logs your flight history, but puts all of the information you might need in a single place alongside a UI that’s far better than anything your airline is offering up. But it’s never come to Android. The launch of “Aviate,” though, is as close to “Flighty for Android” as I’ve seen.

Following its recent acquisition of Aviate, Yahoo has relaunched the company’s home screen replacement software today. Rebranded as Yahoo Aviate Launcher, the app is now out of beta and introduces some new features like Favorite People, which automatically places your most popular contacts into a list of favorites for fast access. To place a call or send a text, simply swipe upward from your device’s home screen.

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