For example, when you do google search for "gas station", it will return result with map link. If I tap the map link, it goes to Google Map mobile website. Is there way that when I tap the link, it'll launch Google Map App instead ?
thanks!
It has to do with app link association. It seems to be broken on our phone.
See my thread in general:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647805
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Yes not routinely we need to know coordinates on google map, N google also believe this, thats why they ppl disable in new version of map since long.
What actually need to get coordinates? exactly i needed it for one reason
I am using Navigon navigator, once my destination place is not mentioned in POI, How do i get navigation? once you are not much familiar with place. There is no online search option (atleast i know abt Navign India)
Here you need coordinates
Here simple guide to get coordinates from google Map
- Search your place on google map, long press it, it will popup address
- press address box and select to share this place
- select to share via , e.g. select messeging
- Now you can see a map link for your desired place, copy it
- Open Browser, Paste link in address bar, it will ask to open with, select Internet(Browser)
- Now your place will open in browser, n search tab contains digits in format of lattitude n longitude (like 22.306306,70.12345). Thats is your coordinate
- Note this and just open Navigon, select coordinate from menu, enter lattitude n longitude in respected field - Done
- Now you can get Navigation to your place offline with - Start Navigation
I know this is 2-3 step procedure, but if anyone knowing better n easy trick/ any app that showing coordinate share here
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Yes not routinely we need to know coordinates on google map, N google also believe this, thats why they ppl disable in new version of map since long.
What actually need to get coordinates? exactly i needed it for one reason
I am using Navigon navigator, once my destination place is not mentioned in POI, How do i get navigation? once you are not much familiar with place. There is no online search option (atleast i know abt Navign India)
Here you need coordinates
Here simple guide to get coordinates from google Map
- Search your place on google map, long press it, it will popup address
- press address box and select to share this place
- select to share via , e.g. select messeging
- Now you can see a map link for your desired place, copy it
- Open Browser, Paste link in address bar, it will ask to open with, select Internet(Browser)
- Now your place will open in browser, n search tab contains digits in format of lattitude n longitude (like 22.306306,70.12345). Thats is your coordinate
- Note this and just open Navigon, select coordinate from menu, enter lattitude n longitude in respected field - Done
- Now you can get Navigation to your place offline with - Start Navigation
I know this is 2-3 step procedure, but if anyone knowing better n easy trick/ any app that showing coordinate share here
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Can't just navigate to the address? Anywho, maybe you should look into an app more geared towards back country navigation or geocaching. There are quite a few in this category.
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Can't just navigate to the address? Anywho, maybe you should look into an app more geared towards back country navigation or geocaching. There are quite a few in this category.
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can you name one application please ? I want to be able to click on google maps and know the coordinates of that location. ideally i should be able to share the coordinates as well in a text format.
I can even pay for such an app.
jndrfq said:
can you name one application please ? I want to be able to click on google maps and know the coordinates of that location. ideally i should be able to share the coordinates as well in a text format.
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Not using Google Maps directly... Locus is the best.
I remember I used to be able to click in google maps and get coordinates. Useful, when I was in the middle of the lake and I wanted my friends to know where I was.
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I remember I used to be able to click in google maps and get coordinates. Useful, when I was in the middle of the lake and I wanted my friends to know where I was.
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Thanks for the tip! I run a delivery company and use coordinates all the time. They are easy to get from the laptop but tried and failed numerous times to get them from my phone. This is a bit of an awkward way but at least it works. I don't know why Google don't implement a coordinate feature into the mobile app, it's such an essential tool for driving, gets you to within 5 meters of a point
I used to get coordinates this way and use it in Evernote. I guess this method is now obsolete as any attempt to share the place from Google Maps yields only a link and some texts.
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Found a workaround: just head over to your browser and load Google Maps. Search for a place and hold down, use the 'what's here' option. It will search using coordinates and they will be visible in search box.
Also, the url generated from sharing a location in Google Maps app when loaded shows the coordinates in search box (at least in the mobile browser)
Is there a place to download all US map info for the GPS feature on this device? I got lost today and it wouldn't ever establish a new route because I "lost data connection", but it continued to track my position just fine.
I would suggest using an alternative app. I use google map but have copilot as a backup. The copilot let you download and store maps on the device. Google map let you cache map tiles but to cache the whole US probably to big a file. If you must use Goole map only, check out the Brut's version
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I would suggest using an alternative app. I use google map but have copilot as a backup. The copilot let you download and store maps on the device. Google map let you cache map tiles but to cache the whole US probably to big a file. If you must use Goole map only, check out the Brut's version
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Do you happen to know when they last updated it? I Bought for my WM phone a couple of year ago & was really disappointed. That was because my address of 7 years couldn't be found. I ended up sending it back & sticking with TomTom. Unfortunately we are limited with Android with gps programs with down-loadable maps.
With the new version of google maps you can go to Labs (from the menu) and enable a limited form of map caching. It downloads 10 square miles around the area you long press on and you can use it without a signal. You can store up to ten so I basically stored my local area and popular places I go.
Google's obviously working on map caching and this is the first sign of it. Give it a shot and see if it works for you.
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So as most of you do, I'm reading about apps in XDA and various other android blogs. I kept running into the whole "highlight-app-name-copy-app-name-open-new-tap-go-to-google-play-click-search-field-paste-app-name-hit-search" game and it thought there has to be a better way.
Enter "Context Search": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbpfafcplnjmakknnonpegphpmpmhjhj?utm_source=gmail
Add Google play, you don't need the "https://" (see screenshot). Now i can just highlight the app name, click down arrow, choose Google Play and BAM it goes to google play store and searches for the app name.
Go ahead and try it. Its prettly slick.
Open http://play.google.com, right click in the search box, add as a search engine. I use play as keyword. Want to search app named QWERTY: Ctrl+t, play TAB QWERTY INTRO.
I'm a keyboard user when on a computer.
Open http://play.google.com, right click in the search box, add as a search engine. I use play as keyword. Want to search app named QWERTY: Ctrl+t, play TAB QWERTY INTRO.
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Oh nice! I never used the TAB to search in chrome. This may now change. Thanks!
When I open a link on the XDA forums to an app on the Play Store from my browser (Chrome 48.0.2564.95) on my phone (OnePlus One, Omnirom 6.0.1 nightly, BaNkS dynamic GApps), the links do not open in the Play Store app; they open in a new Chrome tab.
E.g. from my phone, if I click this link (Google app on Play Store):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox,
the link opens in a new tab instead of the Play Store app. Links on other websites work just fine, but through XDA they don't. If I long-press the link on my phone's browser, I see that it is actually a link via an XDA API (a url like *click.xda~.com/api/click?*) that ends up linking you to the Play Store. Note that I don't see the XDA API links from my computer browser (Firefox 44.0), but the actual play.google.com link.
EDIT: the link above does open through play.google.com without the XDA click API on my phone an thus opens in the Play Store app. However, I have an example of a link that always fails me:
The first link in this thread (Cyanogenmod Calculator app) opens the website instead of the app on my phone.
I understand XDA wants to monitor what sites their forums link to, but I don't understand why my phone/browser doesn't end up opening the Play Store app instead of the Play Store website: even the API link should finally be redirected to some url like *play.google.com/store*, which is a link that my phone normally opens in the app instead of the website.
What might be causing this problem? Is this the intended behaviour by the XDA website, or is this a bug? Is there a fix?
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When I open a link on the XDA forums to an app on the Play Store from my browser (Chrome 48.0.2564.95) on my phone (OnePlus One, Omnirom 6.0.1 nightly, BaNkS dynamic GApps), the links do not open in the Play Store app; they open in a new Chrome tab.
E.g. from my phone, if I click this link (Google app on Play Store):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox,
the link opens in a new tab instead of the Play Store app. Links on other websites work just fine, but through XDA they don't. If I long-press the link on my phone's browser, I see that it is actually a link via an XDA API (a url like *click.xda~.com/api/click?*) that ends up linking you to the Play Store. Note that I don't see the XDA API links from my computer browser (Firefox 44.0), but the actual play.google.com link.
EDIT: the link above does open through play.google.com without the XDA click API on my phone an thus opens in the Play Store app. However, I have an example of a link that always fails me:
The first link in this thread (Cyanogenmod Calculator app) opens the website instead of the app on my phone.
I understand XDA wants to monitor what sites their forums link to, but I don't understand why my phone/browser doesn't end up opening the Play Store app instead of the Play Store website: even the API link should finally be redirected to some url like *play.google.com/store*, which is a link that my phone normally opens in the app instead of the website.
What might be causing this problem? Is this the intended behaviour by the XDA website, or is this a bug? Is there a fix?
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Hello,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
I cannot reproduce this behavior on my device.The link you gave is directing me to the PlayStore.
@bitpushr can you take a look at this?
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I don't like cluttering my Android phone's screen with a lot of icons
I like to have a single search for web search and apps search
I use Action Launcher
I set a gesture that will open Google Search
Until about January 20, 2021, I was able to just open Google Search either via the gesture I set, the Google search widget, or the Google app itself and start searching for the name of an application I have installed on my phone. For example if I typed "tele", in the suggestions the "telegram" app would show up. This was also working with Actions Search, no issues.
However, at around the date I mentioned above, this feature disappeared both from Google Search and Action Search. I guess Action Launcher's search uses Google to do the search and get the suggestions.
Now, if I do search with Google Search for "telegram app" and click search, the app will be the first result and I can click the card in the results and the app starts. But this introduces more typing and at least one more tap as well.
Interestingly enough, if I fire up the Google Assistant, switch to keyboard and type "telegram" the app will start. Further searches will suggest it, so I can type just "tele", but it still requires an extra click (I have to click the keyboard because assistant starts in voice mode, and starting in text mode is even worse because it start without focusing the text field so I have to click twice, once to focus the input field and once more on the field to fire up the keyboard)
So far I tried clearing Google app's cache and restarting the phone several times. It didn't help.
I also checked in settings -> Personal Results that installed apps are checked. I even unchecked/rechecked it with a Google app cache clean in-between.
Do you guys and girls have any suggestions?