My apologies if this is posted in the wrong place.
Here's an app I created. It's for Android 4.0.3 and up.
Since I am unable to post .apk files directly, or even zip files, I've had to change the .apk extension to a .doc extension. If you download the file, be sure to change it back to .apk by viewing file extensions, then renaming it. To download the .apk, choose: APK - Merv'sUltimateUrbanRuralKitCheckList 19May2016
Also supplied is an actual .doc of it, which does not begin with APK-.
The app does not have any device permissions. There's no paid for PRO version of it. It's advert free. There's no analytics. It doesn't track what you do.
On the surface, this app looks as though it was done with a Prepper or Survivalist mindset, but officially it’s really just a Camping Equipment Checklist that I originally made for myself. I kept adding to it and it grew and evolved out of all proportion into what it is now, and then I had the strange notion to share it.
It should be made clear that I do not claim to be an expert in bushcraft, camping, or survival skills. I’m not a prepper or survivalist. I’m explicitly and implicitly entry level, a tenderfoot, a beginner - whose “experience” is what I’ve read in the SAS Survival Guide, the US Army Survival Guide, a book by Ray Mears, and Horace Kephart, and a book about food for free and hedgerow harvests, and a couple of other books. I've watched Ray Mears on television, and Major Les Hiddens (The Bushtucker Man), and Ron and Karen Hood (Hood’s Woods), and several hundred videos from Youtube, and signed up to naturalbushcraft.co.uk. I’ll even freely admit that while I’ve “studied” the concept of making fire with a bow, I’ve never really tried to make fire by that method. The only major accomplishments I’ve done is to climb Ben Nevis (where I stayed overnight to watch the sun set) by way of the Carn Mor Dearg Arête, and I'm 39 miles short of completing the West Highland Way (starting at Glasgow Central Station, not Milngavie)....
With that in mind, welcome to Merv’s Ultimate Urban\Rural Equipment Checklist, which is just an extensive list of items (in 20 categories) that are available to you for when you assemble your Land-based, Urban \ Rural \ Bug In - Bug Out \ Homesteading \ Wilderness, Pandemic, Disaster, Emergency Support \ Every Day Carry, Camping Kit, Package, or Bag - or, in short, your LBURBIBOHWPDESEDCCKPOB.
It certainly is a bold statement to call this app an “Ultimate“ Checklist. Maybe it is the most inclusive and expansive checklist out there, and maybe there are others even more ultimate - but, hopefully I've managed to include most of everything that anybody might need or want.
Be Advised! This app is NOT a teaching device. It does not tell you how to make fires, build shelters, set up traps (or tarps), nor does it impart survival techniques. If you want to learn that go get yourself a survival book of some kind, the SAS Survival Guide by John “Lofty” Wiseman, for example, or attend a survival course, or two. There's hundreds of such books on the market, and a search on the internet will help with the other. Nor is this app a condensed survival manual, although on Blurb (Page) 2 there is a lot of general broad-stroke camping\survival ideas, aide-mémoirs, pointers, helpful hints & tips, and suggestions that might be useful. The list is by no means complete, nor in any way authoritative nor absolute in how you should do things.
Finally, in creating this app, typing a seemingly endless list of items took it’s toll on my sanity, and to alleviate the monotony my nerdy “sense of humour” injected some things into the lists that serve to highlight and underscore the ostensibly absurdity of such an all-encompassing, all-inclusive, checklist. Experienced people may well look down upon this app with derision and scorn - as well they probably should; but people new to the outdoorsy lifestyle, should hopefully find it useful in someway.
The Categories
Food and Water / Cooking Fishing Kit
Signalling and Communication Shelter and Comfort
Navigation Weather and Bug Protection
Sewing Kit Tools and Knives
Fire Making Weaponry, Hunting, and Trapping
Carrying Equipment Entertainment
Lighting Hygiene and Sanitation
Medical Kit Climbing Equipment
Clothing and Footwear Vehicle Stuff
Homesteading & Boltholes Additional and Other
As far as I'm concerned, the app is as "complete" as it's going to get, and so I would welcome any feedback, ammendments, suggestions, corrections, and whatnot on it.
MtB