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Brand New Updated Android App Launches Today!

by Savannah
written by Savannah

The long-anticipated update for our Android app is now available on Google Play! We’re delighted to send this update for free to all existing users. We’re also going to keep the price of the Android app at $9.99 for the time being, but in the future it will be priced the same as the iOS app ($19.99).

Earlier this year we began rewriting Gaia GPS for Android from the ground up, in house. Our core developers have been working on this release for six months, and we are very excited to show off the new app. Gaia GPS 5.0 offers all the features of the previous Android release, and much more. It is also faster, more reliable, and more usable in almost every respect. And we have much more to come before spring!

Fast and Interactive Maps

  •  • unbeatable speed and responsiveness of maps, using OpenGL hardware acceleration
  •  • display all of your tracks and waypoints on the map at once, in rainbow colors, just like Gaia for iOS
  •  • vast selection of maps for offline use, including USGS Topos and Aerial Imagery, Worldwide topo and road maps based on OpenStreetMap, and US Forest Service Maps

GaiaCloud

  •  • sync your data seamlessly across all of your devices that run Gaia GPS, from Android, to iOS, to cloud.gaiagps.com
  •  • share tracks with anyone by sending a short link via email, Facebook, Twitter, and more
  •  • keep your data backed up so you don’t lose your adventures when you lose your phone

Tracks and Waypoints, Import/Export

  •   • record and display tracks and waypoints
  •   • tap tracks and waypoints on the map to get info
  •   • see live stats and graphs about your trip, in a configurable trip computer
  •   • overlay mini-stat displays on the map
  •   • import GPX files from anywhere (email, web, Dropbox, etc.).
  •   • export GPX, KML, and CSV

More

  •  • view the map in north or heads-up mode
  •  • view progress of map downloads and other network activity
  •  • display detailed information about the status of your GPS signal
  •  • display TrailBehind places on the map, and get info and relevant webpages about remote places
  •  • search the map for places, addresses, and coordinates
  •  • use five different types of coordinates – UTM, MGRS, DDM, DMS, and Decimal
  •  • use metric/imperial and regular/nautical units
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New Android beta for Gaia GPS

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports
We pushed an updated Android beta to the Play Store today, which anyone can download.
This version displays tracks really quickly, you can delete added map sources, and many other improvements (see release notes on the Play Store). If you are interested when we plan to replace the main version of Gaia GPS, you can get a sense of what we feel like we have to do from the Trello board, which is our roadmap.
All of us at TrailBehind now use the new version instead of the old, but we don’t quite have the feature parity we want to replace yet. We’re getting really eager to ship this to everyone!
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updated Gaia GPS Android beta

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

We shipped a little update to the Android beta again today. This version stubs out the Details screen for tracks/waypoints/maps (most buttons don’t work), and implements a Delete option for everything, and a “Resume Download” option for maps.

We decided the Details screen was a prerequisite for adding waypoint-marking to the app, so that’s why we went ahead with this. There are also various other improvements and bug fixes in the release.

You can check out the beta on the Google Play market.

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New Gaia GPS Android beta – now with MBTiles and Burning Man support

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

We pushed a new update to the Android Gaia GPS beta today.

We have been getting tremendous feedback from the Android beta group now, so we cleaned up a bunch of bugs people have reported from the field. The version of the beta now also notably supports MBTiles, a data format MapBox published that lets people wrap up bundles of map tiles into a database. So, if you have any MBTiles, Gaia will import and show your tiles as a layer.

We’ve wanted to support MBTiles in Gaia for a while, but we did it now to scratch an itch for Burning Man.

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New Gaia GPS Android beta out today

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

We pushed a new update to the Gaia GPS Android beta today, which notably brings GaiaCloud to Android, along with a bunch of other improvements.

The Gaia Android beta is available on the Google Play store, for anyone who wants to preview features and be part of the beta test group. If you are using the regular version of Gaia GPS, you’ll get all the beta updates when they are ready for prime time. You can read about the Open Beta for Gaia GPS Android on our blog.

What’s New Version 0.4

  • add additional map sources in Map Layers menu
  • sync with GaiaCloud, syncs do not happen automatically, but must be initiated from settings
  • fix menus on Android 2.x
  • add map sources with gaigps:// urls
  • various minor bug fixes

Previous, Versions 0.1 – 0.4

  • view and download maps
  • topo, aerial, and road maps
  • record tracks
  • view track stats
  • locate yourself on the map
  • import GPX

COMING NEXT: waypoint marking, POI search, track graphs

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Gaia GPS for Android – Open Beta

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

Today, we’re very happy to announce the Open Beta release of Gaia GPS for Android. You can download it from Google Play now.

Going forward, Google Play will have two versions of Gaia GPS – Beta and normal. Anyone who wants to can participate in beta testing, and the normal version will always get updates when they are finished and fully polished. We plan to update the current “normal” version of Gaia GPS to the new code towards the end of the summer. Most users will probably just want the production version of Gaia, but if you’re eager to check out our new cutting edge stuff, you can get the beta, and help us iron out the bugs.

This release is almost a total rewrite of Gaia – the maps are fast and smooth, and the UI has been overhauled on both phones and tablets. By the time this new app leaves beta, it will be extremely similar to the iOS app.

In the past, we have done all beta testing through private distribution. We are releasing a beta version on the Market because:

  • it’s much easier to manage adding new testers
  • we think we’ll get an order of magnitude more eyeballs on it
  • we noticed larger apps like Chrome do it this way
  • we’re eager to get the new release out, but can’t overwrite the old one until it’s fully cooked

Any feedback is much appreciated!

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