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Looking for GPS tracker to use together with Google Maps.

Is there an app, like, i.e. GPS Sports Tracker, that can be used together with Google Maps?
Or do you know if I can use CoPilot Live for tracking (and not only for navigation)?
Thanks!

svartoksen said:
Is there an app, like, i.e. GPS Sports Tracker, that can be used together with Google Maps?
Or do you know if I can use CoPilot Live for tracking (and not only for navigation)?
Thanks!
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Try Sportypal! It is free and good.

Trackme uses Google maps and is free.
Works fine on HD2 and has geo-fence. Just search XDA.

johnboatcat said:
Works fine on HD2 and has geo-fence. Just search XDA.
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I assume you too write aboute Sportypal?
Thanks!

Maybe you also wanna try MaspWare GPSmeter. It is not free but it is really worth it's money. Maybe it is a bit too much for someone's needs. I LOVE it!

svartoksen said:
I assume you too write aboute Sportypal?
Thanks!
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Eehm...TrackMe , of course!

I used "Trackme" on my Tilt and now have it on HD2.
I use it on my boat at night as an anchor drag alarm. Set the geo-fence for twice the distance of the length of my anchor line. Mark the position when I first drop the anchor. Phone moves outside the circle and it sends me a text message that sets off an alarm.
Also you can get it to send a text or email with position by sending the phone a text message with a custom message created by you. Good to find your phone if lost.
Also when we leave the boat for the day we leave one phone on the boat and it will text us if the boat moves from a pre-determined circle. Text or email has a link to a google map showing the track since started.

[APP] SnapSwap - Android Photoswap clone

Hi all
Im new here so I hope this is posted right. Ive developed an Android app that is similar to the iPhone Photoswap app. For those not aware, Photoswap lets you take a photo and send it to a random person, and you will in return receive a random photo back. You can then take part in picture-conversations with the person who you received a photo from.
Ive had a couple people testing my app and it seems to just about ready (apart from using the default app icon), and I'd like to put it out there for others to start using (and hopefully provide some feedback on ) Im new to android development (although not new to programming itself), and this is my first android app. IMHO it works better than the similar Picswap app that exists already, as this doesnt force-close constantly or throw-out error messages regarding "corrupt" images
I have attached the APK with my post for anyone who wishes to download and install it
There is a known issue with the app at the moment that it does not (at least on HTC devices) delete any photos that you have taken, and they still appear in your Photos app. From what Ive found, using the camera Intent saves 2 copies of the photo to the SD card, and Ive only found one path from the URI to delete (so 1 copy is deleted, but the other remains). These can be deleted from the Photos app still however, but Im looking into how to delete these automatically from the app also.
Edit: The app also starts with a blank screen (no default image yet), just press the menu key to begin
Edit 16th September: New APK uploaded, fixes some threading issues and adds debug log output. Please download and install this as the old one may continue to run in the background and not pause properly when changing apps.
For those having issues, please use aLogCat (from the market) and filter by "SnapSwap" to access the debug log. Please PM me a copy of this along with your phone model and android version and I will look into it Most issues so far seem to be with Cyanogen Mod and Motorola users

hay, i'm one of the beta testers,
and this app is really nice
i hope the optic would be a bit better in the next beta , but it makes fun to "swapping" pictures with other testers !
it is much faster then "a world of photo" it never take longer then 10sec since i get a picture
Really nice and weLL done
Greetings from germany !

Thanks for sharing!

Im going to try make an icon for it soon along with a default image to be shown as well, and adjust the polling time with the server for replies (or even look at adding a push notification system to it)

Just updated the APK in my original post to fix some bugs as at least one user was not being assigned a unique ID properly, updated the server to watch for this also.
For those that have already installed the app, I recommend installing this one over it
If those that have installed it could provide some feedback it would also be greatly appreciated

nice idea i like it , i will share my photo with others sounds good
i will feed u back

I downloaded, installed and when i took a pic it immediately force closed.

Oh great, twenty bucks you get some picture of some dudes junk or some other nasty pic.
Smells of Chatroulette.........

im intrested but it fc right after i hit ok. droid 1

FC on me each time right after I take the picture and press the OK button
G1 Dream CM6 stable

Click Picture, Click ok get
the FC Process org.ciela.snapswap

Phaze13 said:
Oh great, twenty bucks you get some picture of some dudes junk or some other nasty pic.
Smells of Chatroulette.........
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There has not been any unwanted material sent via it as yet. Im looking into the best way to ban those that would at the moment. As it is currently though, devices are only identified via a unique ID provided by the server the first time the device accesses it, and this is extremely simple to get around if I were to "block" a device.
To those that have had force-closures: Can you please let me know the following..
1) Do you have an SD Card installed?
2) What device are you using?
3) What version of Android are you running?

Works great for me on Samsung Vibrant. I only get one copy of the pictures (that I take), then of course the temp files SnapSwapImg.jpg (the last pic I took) and SnapSwapImg2.jpg (the last one I received). I totally dig the application! You can reply to pictures (of course, with other pictures), receive replies, and even continue your "pic conversation" with that individual. Yeah, you could end up with a dude's (or chick's, though I doubt there'd be many complaining) junk in exchange for your picture, but putting in any kind of regulation for something like that just ruins the whole point of the application. Can't wait to see this adopted by more people.

Phaze13 said:
Oh great, twenty bucks you get some picture of some dudes junk or some other nasty pic.
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You say that like its a bad thing.
Actually, an adult app like this could be huge. porn drives technology, dont forget it.
Seriuosly thou.. im getting a f/c when I take a pic and click OK. EVO CM6
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Sounds pretty cool; I'll try it out. How many unique users do you have?

how do u download it?

This is just like the PicRoulette app. You take a picture, and it sends you the latest picture someone else just took.
Sent from my FroyoEris using Tapatalk

Force close on my Milestone default camera app (2.1)
stuck on "swapping picture" using camera 360
Edit: it works fine when i am on Wi-fi

Ciela said:
To those that have had force-closures: Can you please let me know the following..
1) Do you have an SD Card installed?
2) What device are you using?
3) What version of Android are you running?
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1: Yep
2: Evo w/ CM6
3: 2.2

snapswap works
Works great on my EVO! Lots of fun. Even getting replies. There was no FC.

Google Maps 4.6

google maps 4.6 is available, some great new features.

Yeah what are they? I updates but I haven't check it out yet
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Layers
A lot of new layers like "My Maps, Terrain, and so on".
What's the "OP" next to my nick name?

OP means you are the Original Poster in this thread

I can't find it in the Market. I have a HTC Legend and I'm from Romania. Could you please help me get it from another source or in another way?

Brazil Navigation
This update enables the Navigation features in Brazil.
tks google!!!!!!!!!!!

Glue said:
I can't find it in the Market. I have a HTC Legend and I'm from Romania. Could you please help me get it from another source or in another way?
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Install failed on i9000 ZSJP8 ROM. Really sad...

plz put the link

Mr.zeus said:
plz put the link
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http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-maps/com.google.android.apps.maps
Really though, what were you expecting?
As for new functions, I'm pretty sure Terrain and My maps were already there.

Anyone figured out yet how to change the distance units in Places? Everything else is in metric, but I get the damn distances Places in ****ing miles.

also where do you put filter on Google map search?
eg how can I limit search
oh wait there is a little icon down the bottom left which shows me the search list page.
and yes I see the distance is in eerr.. miles.. I mean who uses that old system..

IceBone said:
Anyone figured out yet how to change the distance units in Places? Everything else is in metric, but I get the damn distances Places in ****ing miles.
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And for me everything (latitude, places...) is in miles

Indeed, latitude is in miles as well.

...and google still has yet to update the android maps API. The google map-kit for iPhone is still light years ahead of the android.
It's impossible to write a decent map app that performs anywhere near as well as google maps.

I would like to see my own layers. Pics of my kids doing stuff at parks, skateboarding, etc. That would be pretty cool. Point at the ocean and see my kid do an off the top on a wave from last spring. Hah.
Just a thought.
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You can do that now. You just can't get information about individual map tiles, even something as simple as onMapFinishedLoading() doesn't exist. That means your layers will (often) load before the map is loaded, which looks like crap.

Thank you very much.I Like it

Curious. Does it pull xif data from Picasa for the image overlay? You would think that would be pretty easy to pull off. I mean I would subscribe to other folks layers to see what they do, where they go,etc. So, if I follow a skateboarder and he shares his layer I can see what trick he did at places I also skate. Video embed would be even more awesome.

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Thanks!!
I installed a NAND rom and was great, but it lacks of most of google apps like Gmail and Google Maps...

Google Reader app other than Newsr?

Newsr had a couple of problems that I will report to the developer but I was wondering if there is an app that can mark as read while you scroll instead of clicking on each feed to mark as read.
Thanks!

i use feedly on both my phone and TF, its awesome on both.

I use feedly as well. Its awesome
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Retab is pretty good
Check out news360 also. Pretty good news aggregator and awesome concept

Feedly is awesome. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
News360 widget is slick!

Taptu for me. Tried the others and they don't seem so easily customisable and simple yet slick to use.

I'm quite enjoying Pulse. It can import your Google Reader feeds (although it can't export its own feeds back to Reader), and for any feeds you have in both Reader and Pulse, the has-been-read flag will be synced.

davedontmind said:
I'm quite enjoying Pulse. It can import your Google Reader feeds (although it can't export its own feeds back to Reader), and for any feeds you have in both Reader and Pulse, the has-been-read flag will be synced.
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You can actually get it to sync? I've tried it several times and all I get is to check network connectivity.
Personally I've yet to find one I really like.
Feedly doesn't seem to sync fully or quickly for me. There have been times that I know I've read an article already and it still shows up. Also I find the layout kind of non-intuitive. When I hit "home" on it I keep getting back to different places.
Retab has a better layout, if a bit crude at the higher levels. Once I'm in a section though it does flow nicely. The problem again is that it doesn't sync or track the read state between levels. If I go into my "android" reader folder and read all of the articles it still shows I have unread when I go back up to the top level until I hit refresh.
News360 is cool looking but dead in the water for me. Twitter and Facebook are the dumbest places to look if you're trying to predict what I like to read. How about, oh I don't know, my google reader account? No? Ok, I'll take a look again when you decide that I can decide what I want to read on my own.
My real issue with all of the tablet readers is that they've all focused on being "different" with their look and feel and have failed with the basic fucntion of getting my news and keeping it organized efficiently. That's probably why I keep going back to NewsRob. It's butt ugly on a tablet, but it syncs appropriately and uses local cacheing so the whole damn list doesn't re-load every time I open the app.
/rant

benmyers2941 said:
You can actually get it to sync? I've tried it several times and all I get is to check network connectivity.
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Syncs perfectly for me.

ViViDboarder said:
Syncs perfectly for me.
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Hmm... do you have multiple google accounts set up? I wonder if that could be causing an issue.

This guy loves Pulse!

ASR831 said:
Newsr had a couple of problems that I will report to the developer but I was wondering if there is an app that can mark as read while you scroll instead of clicking on each feed to mark as read.
Thanks!
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Please do let me know what those issues are, so I can fix them.
I have a beta right now that improves the "mark all as read" performance in a serious way.

Chris Stewart said:
Please do let me know what those issues are, so I can fix them.
I have a beta right now that improves the "mark all as read" performance in a serious way.
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I sent you a PM about those. Not sure if you received it.
The bugs are:
1) In portrait mode, the app still shows the three columns.
2) Feeds that are in other languages (right-to-left) display the div/html code in title bar.
Thanks!

Is there any chance you could make Newsr sync items that are shared by my contacts under the contact name as a separate feed as per the Google Reader website? Currently the only way to see them is by looking at "All Items".
Also, can you make Newsr sync read items as well as unread? Sometimes I accidentally mark something as read and then want to go back to read it again. I can't seem to do this with Newsr.

rilot said:
Also, can you make Newsr sync read items as well as unread? Sometimes I accidentally mark something as read and then want to go back to read it again. I can't seem to do this with Newsr.
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I second this.
Also, I just discovered the open-article-with-inapp-browser button. How about loading all links in-app instead of opening the Browser? Example: digg articles.

+1 for Pulse here as well. I'm loving the interface and search function.

Pulse is no good if you have lots of friends in Google who share things and you want to share stuff with them.
The integration isn't there, it just grabs the feeds and that's it.

Phereo 3D

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.phereo
share and view 3D photos, now works on the O3D

My pictures gets always out of focus after uploading, hope they fix it.

they also need to add a convergence control.

Fantastic. Now even mpo pictures works in 3D! We are just missing an oprion to download pictures.

ThiaiZ said:
My pictures gets always out of focus after uploading, hope they fix it.
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How it can be? Mine r good.
Can u send a link to uploaded photo and share original photo (file)?

abo_mara7 said:
Fantastic. Now even mpo pictures works in 3D! We are just missing an oprion to download pictures.
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I think that u can save images from the cache.

out of focus
Dear friends,
Thanks a lot for your interest in Phereo!
In fact, I need to confess that there was a problem with upload from O3D: photos were not out of focus, but image was uploaded with swapped channels (left-eye image went to right eye and vice versa). It feels like out of focus maybe.
We have resolved it on server side - so now images will go right way without app update. Unfortunately, we can't do anything with images already uploaded.
We are sorry for the inconvenience - and kindly welcome you to stay with us!
Kind regards,
Vasily
Phereo Team

Phereo said:
Dear friends,
Thanks a lot for your interest in Phereo!
In fact, I need to confess that there was a problem with upload from O3D: photos were not out of focus, but image was uploaded with swapped channels (left-eye image went to right eye and vice versa). It feels like out of focus maybe.
We have resolved it on server side - so now images will go right way without app update. Unfortunately, we can't do anything with images already uploaded.
We are sorry for the inconvenience - and kindly welcome you to stay with us!
Kind regards,
Vasily
Phereo Team
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cheers
10 char

ThiaiZ said:
My pictures gets always out of focus after uploading, hope they fix it.
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After the last update it works just perfect,almost as good as when i look on own O3Ds screen. Thanx Phereo team.
PS.Is that any way to delete old uploaded pictures, those I first uploaded before the update are still shown out of focus?

REQ for phereo
can you give as an option to save a picture? that should be very great.
thanks for this nice app.

Well i found out that all the pictures
you see on phereo are stored on the phone self. You have to change
permissions than you can see the images in gallery.
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can you explain better?

Phereo said:
Dear friends,
Thanks a lot for your interest in Phereo!
We are sorry for the inconvenience - and kindly welcome you to stay with us!
Kind regards,
Vasily
Phereo Team
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Well, thats good. Take a look at your account creation stuff, I've tried for a few days to make an account and it fails without a meaningful error message.

wiebenik said:
Well i found out that all the pictures
you see on phereo are stored on the phone self. You have to change
permissions than you can see the images in gallery.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda premium
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Where is this cache folder?

Love the ability to view and share 3D but I seem to have a problem with the app no one else has mentioned, all pics (even ones I take and upload) show with a lot of interference like lines across them as if a lot of almost invisible bars are in front of the pictures.
Any idea why this is?
Regarding the account creation error I also had this, yet when I checked the email address I had specified I still had a confirmation email and can log in with no problem. I think the app quits when the username you choose is already taken.
Dave

abo_mara7 said:
Fantastic. Now even mpo pictures works in 3D! We are just missing an oprion to download pictures.
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They have a download option in last release, but it doesn't work in full-screen view. It works only in gallery preview mode.

mistermentality said:
Love the ability to view and share 3D but I seem to have a problem with the app no one else has mentioned, all pics (even ones I take and upload) show with a lot of interference like lines across them as if a lot of almost invisible bars are in front of the pictures.
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I get this too, however if I download and view it's fine

Phereo released a new version of the application. The new look is great!

yes but saved pictures are not in fullscreen any more.

nic85 said:
yes but saved pictures are not in fullscreen any more.
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Yes, it is the only disadvantage right now. I hope they fix it soon.