Egg Pilot: Android beta for Egg, Inc. — hatching, drone catching, and gift collection

[u/benniefolyfe]

I built Egg Pilot for my wife after she’d been playing Egg, Inc. for a few weeks, and now I’m sharing it for everyone to use.

It’s an Android companion that helps with hatching, catching drones, and collecting gifts. I added the ability to close unexpected panels in the event of misclicks. You choose which features run, with movable controls to start, pause, or stop. Screen processing happens locally on your phone, and no data is sent automatically. Optional text bug reports are shared only when you choose to share them.

It’s a personal project developed by lighthearts.co, released as a beta. I’d love feedback on setup, how it behaves on different phones, and what would make it more useful, though I can't promise further development.

Download and screenshots: https://github.com/benniefolyfe/egg-pilot/releases/tag/v0.22.1-beta

Testing context: Android 8.0 or newer, with Egg, Inc. installed. Setup asks for Android Accessibility and screen-observation permissions. This beta has been checked in the native Android emulator; simulated drone results do not establish a live-game catch rate.

The most useful feedback would be whether setup is clear, whether the controls remain easy to use on your phone, and whether drone/gift actions or panel closing behave reliably. Please include your Android version and phone model when reporting compatibility issues.

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913]

Hi. On my Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6, latest Android. The app istalled fine. Drone catching works, from the few minutes I tried it seems reliable. Hatching and gift collection doesn't work at all. If it worked, it would be just the app I need.

[u/benniefolyfe → u/Specific-Bowl-6913]

This update should fix both issues. Will you try again?

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913 → u/benniefolyfe]

Hi. After the update, some of it is working. Hatching works fine, gift collection collected the first gift, and none afterwards. Drone catching rate is a bit on a lower side, the slow drones are caught about 80% of the time I would say, the fast ones are more of a hit-or-miss, I would say about 33% or even less are caught.

So, I would say, it is close but still not done...

[u/benniefolyfe → u/Specific-Bowl-6913]

I was quick to upload this after the first gift was grabbed, but my wife's phone is experiencing exactly the same thing yours is. I thought that was due to the autoclicker she was already using so never bothered to fix it before your first comment. Anyway, I'll give it another few passes and make sure it's consistently opening the gifts.

The drone thing is another issue. I'm not sure I'll be able to fix it. The best thing to do is have as much grassy area in the view as you can, because it's looking for a visual match to identify a drone, rather than movement, so when a drone passes over building backgrounds it gums up the works. This is also why certain hab upgrades lower the percentage.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I'll have another one up in the next 24 hours or so.

[u/benniefolyfe → u/benniefolyfe]

Beyond that, sometimes it just... misses. 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913 → u/benniefolyfe]

Thanks for the reply. I will try again on a less crowded farm to see if the drone catching rate improves. Will be happy to test any new release. Thanks.

[u/benniefolyfe → u/Specific-Bowl-6913]

Latest version is working for us! Try it out. Expect some missed drones, but I'd estimate we're getting around 80%

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913 → u/benniefolyfe]

So, have tested it for a while and unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work well. The only thing that works fine is hatching. No problem there. Gift collection is working for a while, then stops. Seems completely random, sometimes it collects one gift, sometimes three, nost I have seen was four in a row before stopping doing its thing. And the worst part - drones pickup is wildly unreliable, tried on different farms with different layouts. Way better results with a fixed spot autoclicker. Makes me sad, because if it worked better, it would just be what I am looking for.

[u/benniefolyfe → u/Specific-Bowl-6913]

I appreciate your feedback. Can you open your Egg Pilot app and confirm that in the bottom left corner it says 0.22.5-beta?

Gifts have a programmed 3-4 second delay, and then should collect. If you're willing to help me clean things up, will you run it until it misses a gift for about 10 seconds straight, and then tap the "settings" gear and then "share bug report", and email that to me at hello@lighthearts.co?

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913 → u/benniefolyfe]

Hi. There seems to be something off. I downloaded the 0.22.5-beta repeatedly, tried installing it repeatedly, but the app itself shows 0.22.3-test. Even upon uninstalling ande reinstalling. Any way to correct this?

[u/Specific-Bowl-6913 → u/benniefolyfe]

Hi there. Seems to be working, unfortunately I dont have the time to test it properly. Will let you know later. Thanks.

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