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Updating a bunch of libraries is often a challenge.
I do recognise your ongoing love, so there is love and world a good place

I launched LM Afa 4.32.0.3_1198 alpha and clicked a bit here and there and all was fine.
I realised that RoutePlanner has issues with offline-router LoRouter Offline, see pic.
Track-segment results in error-notification and a direct line with draw-manually pencil-icon, maybe due to missing calculation-result.
I updated routing-segments, tested tts in settings, chosed different profiles, didn't help.
Online-routing is working, all fine.

@Mick Fu
seems to be controlled elsewhere, maybe hardcoded and at least to depend on set App language.
I suggest to open a dedicated topic.

bugs:
LM beta 4.31.3.6

• App language not saved, always defaults to system language at start.
• select track > Re-route > profile with 'Include navigation commands' and eg. 6 shaping Points > save as new track. Select New track > Tools > internary. Locus tells 'track includes no waypoints', which could be at least the used shaping points, and no navigation commands are given. I have to use 'Make a copy' and enable 'Add navigation commands' to finally achieve navigation commands.
• attention: ditto, Re-route. Then using the save button (icon next to burger-menu) a dialog opens to overwrite the current track. This might be the original one used for Re-route. Quite dangerous. IMHO a Re-route-track should be handled as new track, derived from the original track, and save should be the same like 'save as new'

@Mick Fu
check folder
Locus/data/tts
there should be a tts-file, fr.tts in your case which can be modified
Files are also available at https://github.com/asamm/locus-map-tts-commands/tree/master/src/main/assets/tts_commands if you missed to keep a backup.
Not sure, IIRC it's also mentioned somewhere in help.

Menion hatte die Center-Button-Funktionalität erweitert und das ist auch sehr gut geworden, ist aber leider noch nicht ganz fehlerfrei.

Der Button scheint durchzucyclen, aber der erfasste Status passt nicht immer.
Da ist irgendwo bei If-Then- oder Case-Abfragen noch ein Wurm drin oder eine Variable wird nicht immer richtig gesetzt. In der Folge funktioniert auch die Ausrichtung nicht so wie gedacht.

In der aktuellen LM4-beta ist das auch noch so, siehe folgende Beschreibung von mir, bug derzeit weiterhin vorhanden:
https://forum.locusmap.eu/index.php?topic=9260.0 #5

Meinem Verständnis nach muss die Button-Mitte leer sein, wenn das Fadenkreuz nicht auf der aktuellen Position ist, und wenn auf der aktuellen Position dann mit weißem Punkt.

Es wäre gut bei Fehlern auch seine Locus-Version zu nennen, geht's um das noch mitgepflegte Locus-classic oder um das aktuellere LM4.

Actually it's not masterclass to make an app featurerich but simple in appearance and use.
Though you will easily find bad design or control solutions.
Look at the android-dark-material-design, where active controls or tabs in browser are with that darkgrey that it is pita to reliably distinguish from black. Assuming there might have been a LOT of meetings and finetunings to bring that android-design to life.

Well, that red sign next to position is the worst decision of 2025.
Everything else is said.

I guess Locus will never be for beginners. E.g. look at the simple satellite radar screen with GPS off and you're immediately out of the game, 'no visible sattelites'. Don't get in panic and touch the screen..
I'm fine and understand the logic

[New LoPoint]

MapGooglePlayAfa_4.29.0.11_1179_beta

see pictures

• track overview - shown map only uses a small amount of screen,  a lot of area is used and wasted with information not that relevant to me
• point, red marker - no action when clicking on it, centering to point not working
• LoPoints. When enabled also other symbols are shown. I guess their of 'other poi', though them are disabled in this menu

New LoPoint
Well, though it makes sense to optimize data generation, workflow and handling to optimize resources, the profit for the user is more or less low.
The GUI enhancements are a good start and a general rework was on the list for at least 1.5 years, maybe more, IIRC.

My concern is mostly data usability.
From my point of view the strength of Locus has always been community awareness and community support and the potential of integrating data of other community or enthusiast projects and open or free available sources like OAM, brouter, Sonny's DTM, themes etc.

As far as I remember the offline POIs had a huge community interest and some individuals managed it to reverse-engineer the used db-structure IIRC, with huge efforts, maybe it was also delivered at some strongly progressed point.

Will the new used db-structure be documentated and released to also be used by the Locus-community, to also integrate other POI-sources, adapted OAM-data or other future projects?

Red key on the centering button: How/when will it appear? I always and only have the red cogwheel when GPS is not available.

I had to newly install Locus. Though gps was on, Locus still had no granted android-permission to access location, which I directly changed then. My note is not that important and is only about the rare case of fresh install and not granted permission, which might not be obvious in first place.

See pic below about the popup-notice in that case.
Other pic shows the newly introduced red cogwheel in case gps is off. Well, I don't like it as i get tired of the exaggerated alerts today and the question-mark tells enough to me, but it's not my app.

I am quite happy at least to switch gps on/off with the dedicated android controls.
Some safety-aware smartphones feature hardware switches for security-sensitive functions like radio (incl. gps) and camera, for understandable reasons.
From my perspective, I always do feel uncomfortable with pseudo-smart automations in the background without any dialogs and realising this way not being in control of hardware and software, e.g. therefore currently dropping windows and finally switching to Linux (Arch atm).
This understanding of who is basically in charge and control is quite basic, deep and fundamental, might be due to endless hours throughout the journey of C64 up to now and understanding the evolution of computer-technology.
Though I am not doubting Locus and the whole Asamm-Team and this only a simple not-so-simple app, I am glad definitely not being plagued by scepticism, I do not prefer such oversophisticated "features" (mechanisms) in LM, at least not without any option. Therefore introducing an expert-option would be ok to me. Using once a dialog to set this option is also smart.

Maybe it's an idea to use simple changes like eg. optimising status text when gps is off, text is there since ages, see pic. Just kidding and pointing

@Luce: see pictures below.
(Und ist unter 'Alle Funktionen' zu finden, siehe Bild 4)

Maybe 'settings' should be 1 of the icons at least, does not seem to be the case with this setup. Should get doublechecked, identical to 'settings' cannot be disabled at all.

Menion, please notice. The bottom command bar in point mode is barely shown. This is independent from using fullscreen mode.

https://youtube.com/v/JISMz4GFzZI

Confirmed.
But only happens to me with a routeplanner planned track, which I saved, not with recorded tracks.
Only happens at  trackpoint 1 and then subsequently changing to no. 2 etc. With trackpoint 2 the detail popup changes its size with moved overlaying bottom bar, misplaced in the middle close to the location-header. Once I pull the detail popup down to make it smaller, the buttom bar jumps back to bottom, then fully visible, and everything stays fine.

@Andrew:
maybe try the package installer (if this is due to permissions) or redownload package?

I know OSM is quite heterogenous, but it's still too easy to let the online search fail..results while fueling my private jet

(correctly it's McDonald's without blank, white space, and with 's, so it's originally due to the underlying OSM-database. But still fun as being a very popular example about how to handle popular typos, misspellings, multiple entries)

MapGooglePlayAfa_4.21.1.2_1125_beta
i experience lot of lags while moving and loading map-areas. To test if this is vector-map+theme related I switched to a raster-map (mbtiles), same there.
Cannot give details, just a change that is noticeable over here.

v1.3.9
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Guys, I am interested if the "Install latest" in my signature works for you. There's some url forwarding going on and for me it did not consistently work, Locus reported a connect error.

Worked like a charm, see screenshot below. I am using LM4-AFA and checked date of zip and included Tapiola.xml, it's 1 3.9.
Thanks, currently my favourite theme due to chosen colours and also very functional.
(always have to edit my posts afterwards to add pictures)

Ich vermute die wird Balloni55 kennen, er nutzt ja immerhin die beta, aber fragt darüber hinaus..