Hi,
would it be possible to view basic information as on a bike computer?
I think of speed (of course), distance (e.g. since track recording), actual height etc.
I know there is the possibility of custom screens, but I think this is too complicated for
the "standard"-user.
Also you loose the ability to use locus as in standard-view.
Regards, Thomas
Custom Screen: Simple Map
- Map and Route
- Speed
- Altitude
- Accuracy
- Course
CustomScreen 'MS-UniCS' is overloaded.
At this screen you see the possibilies of 'Custom Screen'
May be something between.
Regards, Skater
I'm just doing the exercise to create a bike computer custom screen ;) I will rise the text font sizes so that you can see it better on biking. If I'm done, I will upload it here.
Hi,
unfortunately locus can't be used with custom screens as usual.
I think this is not very nice.
Also, I'm sure many users use locus like me. I'm also sure that many
of them would like to have a bike computer view.
I have never written an android app, but since the variables for speed etc. must already exist,
I can not imagine that it's too hard to code that. But perhaps I'm wrong...
Regards, Thomas
why Locus can't be used with custom screens as usual? Custom screens system is created mainly for such purpose - like bike trip screen, speedmeter, etc. Work on custom screens will anyway continue. Now is priority vector maps and navigation, custom screens then ...
Quote from: "menion"why Locus can't be used with custom screens as usual?
I didn't build my own one. But at least with the ones that are built in, I can't zoom, show standard buttons when "doubletapping" etc. And very import for me: map does not turn when phone turns.
Are those things possible when building my own custom screens?
Regards, Tom
no they aren't. actual basic map screen usage is in quick button on right panel on map screen and quick switch to custom screen when needed. As I wrote, custom screen will improved but it's not a priority now
OK. Looking forward for improvements.
BUT: I created my first custom screen, or more precise I changed one of the samples. And it worked quite well. Most of the things I wanted work now.
I was searching quite a lot of time how to turn map, until I found that these settings are just taken from main window.... quite silly.
Since zooming also works with two fingers, I can live without buttons for that.
So, since it works now nearly perfect, that's OK for me. But nevertheless some suggestions:
- Working with XML, and things like linear layout etc. are very hard to understand for non-geeks. Having the oportunity to show some simple information in main window without custom screen would be good for many users
- You could hide the top-bar (Home-Button, Name of CS, Menu to choose CS), since this is valuable screen space
- It should be possible to have special characters, like german "Umlaute" like ä, ö, ü. At least I didn't manage that.