mobile or Companion ?!

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 2:12 AM, Jukka <jukka.lind at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> 
> What is Subsurface Companion ? It looks very different to
> subsurface-mobile. Can it connect to subsurface cloud ?

No it cannot. It's an app with a very limited purpose - allow divers (for 
example, on a dive boat) to collect GPS location that can then be merged 
with the dive list in Subsurface and be used to have reasonably precise 
GPS location information for your dive sites.

> What is Subsurface-mobile ? Why cannot I find in google play store ?

It's a version of Subsurface that is targeted at mobile devices with a new 
UI written with phones and tablets in mind. It is in public beta test right 
now, check here for an opt-in URL that will allow you to find it in the
 Google Play store:

https://subsurface-divelog.org/2016/02/subsurface-mobile-for-android-first-beta/ <https://subsurface-divelog.org/2016/02/subsurface-mobile-for-android-first-beta/>

As the post indicates - this is a beta release and has a number of known 
bugs. Also, after releasing the beta we decided to make a few UI changes 
so this is nowhere near what will be the first official release. Finally, even 
though this is mentioned in several locations it seems to confuse some 
new users: the current beta CANNOT download dive data from your dive 
computer. You still need the desktop version of Subsurface for this.

> Who is Aurelien Pralong ? No, I dont use google+

Aurelien is one of our contributors and the main author of the companion 
app which is why he posted it to the Google Play store. Since the new
Subsurface-mobile includes the functionality of the companion app, we
assume that this will be removed from the play store once the mobile
application has been released

/D
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