Is anyone working on an iOS app?

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 03:56:49 PDT 2015


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Guido Lerch <guido.lerch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Miika
>
> Regards,
> Guido
> +41 79 3217739
>
>> Am 12.10.2015 um 12:25 schrieb Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Guido Lerch <guido.lerch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Davide
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Guido
>>> +41 79 3217739
>>>
>>>>> Am 12.10.2015 um 12:06 schrieb Davide DB <dbdavide at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Guido Lerch <guido.lerch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Since I don't have an Android phone anymore and non of my colleagues has I
>>>>> don't know what
>>>>> the Android App does.
>>>>
>>>> There is a basic companion app for IOS.
>>>> AFAIR it was developed for a GSOC but then never maintained.
>>>> I use the Android one (and I could not live without it) but one of my
>>>> buddies (who switched to IOS) use the IOS version and it works [cit.]
>>>> I don't know where you can download nor the features implemented.
>>>
>>> I downloaded it from the App Store.
>>> All it does for me is to allow to add a dive, with the gps coordinates.
>>> It does not allow adding meta data or anything else and it does not display my dives in the cloud.
>>> Seems I have to scan through the sources to see what it's supposed to do.
>>> The reason I haven't done this already is that I understood from Dirk that what I saw is all its supposed to do but maybe I got that wrong.
>>
>> It is supposed to log the GPS coordinates during the dives. If you add
>> dive manually, you are able to give it a name, otherwise it will
>> default to "New Dive  <id>" where <id> is a running number. It is
>> quite limited in that sense, but it does log the GPS coordinates
>> properly.
>>
>> To use the companion app, you just log the GPS coordinates with it,
>> sync them to cloud and then sync the desktop app from cloud, so you
>> will have the coordinates from there and can do all the rest.
> Does that mean that the dives I imported from my computer will never make it into the iOS app? It sounds like as the workflow is
> Log in iOS with gps
> Sync with ssrf
> Add meta data

This is what we currently have. The iOS app only logs the GPS data and
that is it.

> Sync back

This is currently not possible and it was never intended to occur with
the existing iOS app.

> Does not make sense to me at all and is not user friendly.

Well, it depends. The current app is designed to only collect the GPS
information and nothing more. For that it is easy enough to use, but
it seems that most of the people are actually expecting more from it
and thus the concept is hard to grasp.

> Apparently I don't understand this.. Hence will try to find the documentation and don't bother you guys any longer.

Basically you should forget about the current iOS app for what you are
thinking. Current one only logs GPS data, it is not the app you are
thinking of :D

We already have a prototype for Android of a mobile app that is able
to sync the dives and display them on a phone/tablet. And this is what
we are now discussing for iOS as well. If you want to take a look at
the Android app, there are emulators on Android SDK where you can run
the app.

HTH,
miika


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