Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I’m actually working pretty hard on getting the 0.3 version ready as soon as possible. It’s about to become a really major update so I really want to test things through before releasing the update. It has lots of new nice features and UI improvements.

It has a few more goodies except the previous published feature list, but they will remain a secret for now I can just assure you that this app will soon become your favourite logger !

There were some major UI improvements made which I felt couldn’t wait for 0.3, so here’s the list for what has been done in 0.25

I thought I’d share the feature list / change log for the upcoming 0.3 update for Offline Logger.

Feel free to post any comments regarding it.

• Confirmation when deleting history logs (prevents deletion by mistake)
• Better graphics/UI in the History log.
• Detailed information about a log (duration, amount of points, avarage logging interval, max/min speed, buttons to delete/share)
• Add a help icon/popup to the menu to show some basic info.
• Better UI and more information to the main logger view
• Display a warning if GPS is disabled when starting the logger.
• User configuration: Enable/disable autostart logger when application starts
• User configuration: Enable/disable celltower position failover
• User configuration: 12h/24h selectable time formatting in UI

A bug was found. An embarassing one, but now it’s fixed and a new update is available on market!

The bug caused the history log-files not to be saved, which made the applications main-task to fail, but the fix was easy and now it’s working again. The reason was that the application tries to access the memory card to verify that it’s available and writable before starting a log (so you don’t log for 5 hours and then not possible to store the coordinates), but it created a file with the same name as the directory it tries to save the log-files to later, which made the directory creation to fail. A file and a directory with the same name cannot exist in the filesystem.

Many excuses to the affected people (probably <5 people since the application is new )

Battery statistics

I’ve been testing the application with 5seconds interval on a fully charged HTC Hero running Android 1.5. The results were pretty impressive, allthough I was running without a SIM-card and with wifi off (like airplane mode). It ran for about 12 hours, and then I turned it off manually, but it will run for an estimated 15 hours @ 5sec interval before battery is fully drained.

Offline Logger is now officially released on Android Market!

This is a FREE GPS Logger which does not use data/internet for anything. Good battery features such as disconnects the GPS for intervals on 30seconds or higher. Fallback to cell tower positioning if a real GPS Fix is not available within 10 seconds.

List of features:
* User changable interval
* Show history, delete or share logs
* Background service with wake-lock (works when display/phone is idle)
* Tested on Hero (Android 1.5) and Nexus One (2.1) with good results
* Fallback to celltower position when a real gps fix is not available within ~10seconds
* Information on amount of points in current history, and last update in UI

First release is available in English only, but in all countries.

Coming features:
* Homescreen widget for quick-starting/stopping a log
* Improved UI
* Sorting abilities in history
* View route on google maps (will require data/internet to load map)
* More configurations

Search for “Offline Logger” in android market, or scan this barcode to get started: