This application enables people to look up the areas of cities which are restricted for being used by cars limited by their specific emission profile. The app shows the outline of the low emission zones and provides additional information about dates or special regulations such as for vehicles registered abroad. Moreover, the user can use the FAQs to read about emission groups, fine particles, stickers for cars or motorbikes, punishments, exception permits and many more. Further, there are several links included pointing to external websites which serve more information to read through.
The map screen of the app shows the outline of the low-emission zone
The application is designed to work both on smartphones and on tablets. Android 2.2 (Froyo) and never versions are supported.
Users can leave there feature request on a special website which not only allows to post own wishes but also to vote on ideas of others.
Before the app can be built a bunch of values have to be set.
- Google Maps v2 API key
Please make sure to provide two API keys both for the release and the debug build
of the application. The package name of the debug build has the .debug suffix
to allow parallel installation on one device.
- TraceDroid email address
- Contact email address
These settings can be found in following places:
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/Umweltzone/src/debug/res/values/config.xml -
/Umweltzone/src/main/res/values/config.xml -
/Umweltzone/src/release/res/values/config.xml -
Google Analytics tracking id
These settings can be found in /Umweltzone/src/main/res/values/analytics.xml.
In order to build a release version of the app signing information must be provided.
Therefore, put the needed information into a gradle.properties file. There is a
example included which contains the properties which are referenced in the build configuration.
The source code is licensed under GPLv3.
This content is licensed, if not stated otherwise, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
