Subsurface mobile and the GPS service

[Willem Ferguson]

I have been playing around with the mobile GPS service (Android 4.3 on 
Galaxy S3). I did this by activating the locations service before I went 
on my Saturday morning errands, creating some dives by hand on Linux 
Subsurface after returning from the errands, and then downloading the 
locations and applying them to the hand-created "dives". Things appeared 
to work more or less ok, but I will finally see when I use this while 
diving a week from now.  A few comments on the UI.

1) When I activate Subsurface-mobile I get the screen on the left of the 
attached image. The button at the bottom allows me to drag the screen to 
the right, bringing up the middle screen in the attached image. Notice 
that the options in the left hand screen are more or less duplicated in 
the middle screen. As far as I can see, upon starting Subsurface-mobile, 
the program should bring up the middle screen. If dives have not been 
loaded (see top part of screen on left) this info should be shown when 
one chooses the "View Log" option on the main menu.

2) The GPS menu on the right of the attached image: The option "Run 
location service" appears three times, once on the main menu (middle 
screen) and twice in the GPS menu (right screen). I suggest that it only 
appears once (not 3x), and this should be in the GPS screen (on the 
right). The checkbox is a friendly way for achieving this. The ultimate 
would be if there is an icon in the icon bar at the top of the Android 
screen indicating that the location service is running (in a similar way 
to other services like Wifi), but this would probably belong to 
finishing touches at the end of the development cycle.

3) Having used the location service, it is critical to be able to view 
the individual GPS points and to be able to delete some of these points. 
This is possible with the companion app and has simplified life for me 
on countless occasions after performing back-to-back dives. Therefore in 
the screen on the right in the attached image I would like to see an 
additional item "View stored GPS data" just above the item "Apply GPS 
data to dives". This option should, at a minimum, allow one to delete 
some of the locations that may confuse Subsurface when applying the GPS 
positions to dives.

I have not yet managed to download dives from the cloud.

I hope I do not sound slightly critical, this is great development you 
are doing!
Kind regards,
willem

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