/BlueGPS4Droid

Bluetooth GPS for Android

Primary LanguageJavaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.5 (2012-05-01)

  • Add Portuguese translation (thanks to rsantospereira (XDA: rikpereira) and meiji (XDA: meiji.emperor))

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.4 (2012-03-27)

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.3 (2011-09-08)

  • Add Russian translation (thanks to skleroz)

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.2 (2011-05-14)

  • Add an option to force auto-activation of the chosen location provider (useful when the device defines a GPS provider but doesn’t provide the preferences used to enable/disable it).
  • Update copyright infos.
  • Decrease the alleged power consumption of the bluetooth GPS (so now bluetooth GPS should consume less power than internal GPS).
  • Change default retries number before auto-closing BlueGPS4Droid.
  • Bug fix (Ticket #5: BlueGPS loops forever when SIRF is enabled but connection cannot be established ).
  • Bug fixed (Ticket #6: Cannot add mock provider if it exists already ).
  • Closing of bluetooth connection improvements.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.1 (2011-01-20)

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.0 (2010-12-10)

  • Add SiRF configuration management (NMEA sentences – SBAS – Static Navigation)
  • Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
  • Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
  • If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider is enabled automatically
  • Add an about window that gives the version of application, licensing information and where the sources may be downloaded.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2 alpha (2010-10-25)

  • SiRF configuration management (NMEA sentences – SBAS – Static Navigation)

BlueGps4Droid 1.1.2 (2010-11-04)

  • Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
  • Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
  • If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider will be enabled automatically

BlueGps4Droid 1.1.1 (2010-09-29)

  • Bug fix (Ticket #4: Connection service is not properly closed https://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/tickets/4/).
  • Add notifications when the connection with the GPS fails and when the connection service is closed because of two many connection retry.
  • Add settings to choose the number of connection retries before exiting.

BlueGps4Droid 1.1 (2010-09-26) – does not work properly because of bug #4. Use either version 1.0 or 1.1.1 !

  • Reconnect automatically when the connection with the GPS is lost (5 attempts in 5 minutes)
  • Replace Android default internal GPS or use a new location provider
  • Send status notifications when GPS loses fix or is disconnected.

BlueGps4Droid 1.0.1 (2010-10-25)

  • Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
  • Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
  • If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider will be enabled automatically

BlueGps4Droid 1.0 (2010-09-12)

  • Connect to bluetooth GPS (NMEA) and replace the internal GPS of an Android device.
  • Record GPS tracks in NMEA files
  • Compatible with Android version 2.0 and above
  • English and French translations