Companion app released on Play Store

[Pablo Wolter]

I can do this, I have an Android handset with GPS. I'm running 4.0.3. 

I already have downloaded it and have some questions, what's the minimum setup required to start using it?

Saludos,

Pablo Wolter
pwolter at gmail.com


On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> 
> Aurélien PRALONG <aurelien.pralong at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> The companion app for Android has been released on the Play Store (
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.subsurface)<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.subsurface>
>> .
>> 
>> For those who don't know it yet, it goal is to capture your dive locations
>> via your smartphone GPS and send them to a web-service, so that you can
>> import them in the desktop Subsurface. It is available in English, German
>> (thanks again Dirk), French and Romanian (the store is only in English
>> though, for now).
>> 
>> Any contribution (bug reports [I hope not too many], feature requests,
>> translations...) is welcome.
> 
> Thanks Aurélien,
> 
> I've used this app (an earlier incarnation, far less nice than the one
> in the store right now) on a few dive trips and find it extremely nice.
> 
> The version in the play store now includes the "background" feature that
> Linus has asked for - so if you are on a dive boat, just start the
> service and it will send location fixes every thirty minutes.
> 
> Subsurface is supposed to do the right thing when those are imported,
> but my guess is there's a little more work to be done here.
> 
>> Concerning near future features, I see :
>> - Google maps integration
>> - File export, digestable directly by the desktop Subsurface (thanks
>> Leonidas for this suggestion)
> 
> Excellent.
> 
> 
> I had been planning to announce this publicly today, but I am now
> wondering if it wouldn't be better if we did a couple of days of
> internal testing to sort out any bugs / issue before we release this to
> the broader user base.
> 
> Quick question: who here has an Android device with GPS capability and
> would be willing to try this out over the weekend?
> 
> The idea would be to simulate the typical user
> 
> - account creation / setup
> - stand outside your house and pretend you are diving :-) and record a
>  location
> - start the background service before you go shopping or do something
>  else where you move around
> - create dives in Subsurface that match the sample data (so a dive that
>  starts a few minutes after the time when you stood outside your house
>  plus a few dives that allegedly happened during the time you were
>  moving around (so simulate the dive boat)
> - the download from webservice and make sure everything is recorded
>  correctly, the dive locations are added, etc.
> 
> I will certainly do that and expect to find bugs on the Subsurface
> side. If a few more people could try and provide data points that would
> be great.
> 
> And then next week we can announce the Android app (and release an
> update to Subsurface if necessary).
> 
> Anyone interested / willing to help with this?
> 
> Linus? Henrik? Amit? Lubomir? Jan? Anyone?
> 
> (and yes, eventually we'll need an iPhone app...)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /D
> _______________________________________________
> subsurface mailing list
> subsurface at hohndel.org
> http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface