Waypoint 4.1 Released

Waypoint 4.1 has been released.  This update adds the following features:

Proximity Alerts
Proximity alerts allow you to be notified when you are apporaching your waypoint.  This alert can be configured in the Edit Notifications menu item.  There are 4 preset distances to choose from: 30, 50, 100, and 150 meters.  When the proximity alert is enabled and triggered a system notification alert message will be displayed in notification bar.

Notify user if GPS sensor is not enabled
Waypoint will check if the GPS sensor is enabled and if it is not, the user will be prompted to enable the GPS sensor. If the user decides to enable the GPS, the Location and Security menu is displayed where this setting can be changed.  Once complete, they return back to Waypoint.  Waypoint will remember if the user enabled the GPS sensor and prompt the user to disable the sensor on exit, but only if the Back button is used to terminate the application.

This version resolves the following issues:

Directional arrow rotation issue
The directional arrow was not rotating properly on all screen resolutions.  Thanks go to the user that pointed this one out.  With a little help from the Android emulator to simulate multiple screen resolutions, this one was resolved.

Waypoint 4.0 Released

It has been a while since the last post, but Waypoint has continued to be improved.  Release 4.0 adds some great new functionality.  Now waypoints can be grouped and organized by categories.  Categories can be created, renamed, and deleted.  Waypoints can now be renamed and moved between categories.  Coordinates can now be set from a map view (Waypoint Pro only) and the vibrate on destination is now configurable.  In addition to the back end features just mentioned there were also some improvements to the front end.  A new button has been added to the main screen to select categories, and the directional and destination icons are now larger for better viewing on larger screens.  See the screenshots below.

The help section will be updated shortly with all of the new features.

Waypoint 3.0 Released

Waypoint 3.0 has been released.  Now a directional indicator has been added to the main screen to assist in navigating back to the selected waypoint.  Once the waypoint has been reached the directional arrow will display a target and the phone will vibrate.  Support for entering coordinates manually has also bee added.

Waypoint Free 2.0 Published

Waypoint 2.0 has been published to the market and includes the following new features:

• Compass Reading
• Heading (Current heading based on GPS)
• Bearing (Bearing to destination based on GPS
• Ability to search Google Maps for the selected Waypoint

Now you can get directions back to your waypoint via Google Maps, if they are available, as well street view images. A bit a refactoring and code cleanup has also been done.  The following screenshot shows the new features on the main screen:

Waypoint Help

The following screenshot tour gives an overview on how to use and navigate Waypoint Free and Pro menu options.

Waypoint Free 1.2 Published - Bug Stomp

Version 1.2 is a quick follow up to the last release to resolve reported force close issues.  This release resolves the following issues:

• Force Close when selecting a perferred unit of measure.  The options default to mph, however if an option was not selected it resulted in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
• Force Close attemping to convert an invalid coordinate.  If a coordinate specified in the Seconds Format contains seconds greater than 59 the convert method will throw an IllegalArgumentException

 A new application image has also be added to match the UI improvements from version 1.1, see below.

Waypoint Free 1.1 Published

The first update to Waypoint has been published to the market, grab it when you get a chance.  This update resolves a Force Close issue that occurred if a waypoint was not selected from the list and "OK" was selected.  An option to select the desired units is now available in the menu under the Settings button.  Available options include mph, km/h and knots.  Persistence also has been added to maintain the selected waypoint and units across sessions.  The user interface has also been enhanced with a background image and larger font, see the new screenshots below.  If you haven't already updated check the market and grab the download.

Hope you enjoy the new version.

The Droid Dev