Some unexpected problems cropped up on Droid and possibly other Android 2.0 phones after I released 1.0.8 last week. Basically the screen layout became bad on these higher resolution phones even though I did nothing that should have affected this other than updating the Android SDK against which RideTrac is built.
I only own an original G1 phone so I was unaware of this problem until some helpful users alerted me to the situation. In this new version I had to rewrite the screen layout code so that it adjusts properly to different resolution screens. I have tested it directly on G1 and Droid phones as well as in the Android emulator at different screen sizes and as far as I can tell it is working nicely now. There are, however, a lot of different phones out there now and I simply can’t test them all directly. If you are still having problems on your phone contact me at support@hubrisware.com so I can continue to make this better. Thanks.
dave Biking, RideTrac
Its been quite a while, but the new 1.0.8 version is released today. This version fixes all known problems that were caused by the Google API changes introduced in Android 1.5. Other small improvements were made as well, such as improved GPS location filtering to remove spurious bad locations, but the big new feature added is support for marker collection. This has been the most popular new feature request for RIdeTrac and I finally found time to add it.
- Markers are special locations that you can save and give a title, description, and optionally an image.
- Markers will show on the map as a special icon (
).
- Clicking on the icon will bring up a small window giving you a thumbnail image and the name of the marker.
- To create a marker you need to have the GPS On and a location fix acquired.
- Click the Menu button, then select Markers.. -> Create MarkerEnter a title and description.
- Optionally take a picture by clicking the camera icon.
- If you create a marker during track recording, the markers will be associated with that track and exported as placemarks in KML (so they willshow up in Google Earth or Google Maps).
I’ll update this post with more information and update the Users Manual soon.
Enjoy.
dave Biking, RideTrac, Uncategorized