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Originally Posted by Spamdumpster
Saua - This is a great app. I finally had a chance to play around with it yesterday and this morning with my 8100. I have a couple of comments & suggestions, but take them for what they're worth -- the app is great as is.
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Thanks for testing and thanks for the feedback, I really need that!
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1) Connecting to GPS: Last night it connected fine. This morning I had some issues and had to restart the pearl before the app would connect to the bluetooth GPS. I checked and I did have the option checked to initialize GPS on start up, so I don't know what went wrong. Probably something with the device and the bluetooth API, not with your app.
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I've included a fix which should enhance the connection quality (especially when losing the signal), but I don't know if it helps with external pucks. Maybe I'll have to access external GPS pucks via the Bluetooth API which would be more work, but would allow more flexibility in handling disconnects (see
#34 (Add GPS access via Bluetooth API) - bbTracker - Trac).
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2) I love the different views for elevation, speed, and track. You commented in your last post that the space bar should switch between views, but that doesn't seem to work on my 8100.
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That's probably because the 8100 doesn't have a designated space bar (the key used for space is probably reported as '0' to the application). I can add '0' as a shortcut for changing views for those cell phones without a full Qwerty keyboard.
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3) Additional view: consider adding an additional view that shows the stats in larger text, without a graph. For example, coordinates, speed, elevation, heading, and maybe average speed shown in larger fonts. Some people also like to have a view showing number and location of satellites, but I don't care about that.
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That's already on my TODO list (see
#18 (Implement a easily readable StatusScreen) - bbTracker - Trac ). Showing number and location of satellites isn't easily possible with API I use, because it does not expose that information. I could only do that with the direct BT access that I mentioned before and then only with external pucks.
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4) Visibility: Consider messing around with the background and font/track colors for better visibility. I don't have any suggestions as to what would work better, but the black on white is kind of hard to see. One thing I recommend is for you to pick what you think works best and leave it at that. I don't see any reason for color choices -- unless it's really easy to program.
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I can definitely play around. The reason I choose black on white, is because no matter if you've got a color phone or not, it will be at least somewhat readable. Adding color choices is probably not too hard programatically, the reason I'd like to avoid it has more to do with UI clutter: I don't want the options screen to be filled with 3000 (mostly) useless options. I'd prefer to choose good defaults if possible.
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That's all I got for now. Thanks for your work on this -- the application is really fantastic.
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I'm glad you like it and thanks again for the feedback.
You can also file bugs and enhancement requests in the
bbTracker issue tracking system. Currently that's anonymous but I will try to enable registration so that you can get updates on bug fixes as they happen.