App Updates

After years of discussion and months of work, we’re delighted to bring Folders to Gaia GPS for Android. Folders allow you to group your tracks, photos, other data in the ways that makes sense for you. We also added a new Timeline view to the app.

Folders

With the release of Gaia GPS version 6.0 for Android, you can now organize, share, import, and work with your data more easily. Find information about managing your folders on our Knowledge Base.

get organized – you can have folders like “Rocky Mountain Maps” or “Difficult Hikes” – group your data however you prefer, toggle visibility for collections, and share sets of data with others

easily access imports – Gaia automatically groups imported files into folders to keep your data together

keep less data on your phone – delete folders from your devices, and restore them on gaiagps.com when you want them again

Timeline

With the timeline, you can view all of your data on one screen, grouped by age.

Thanks to a new program Google initiated, beta testing for Gaia GPS Android is easier than ever.

If you are an Android user that would like to help us continue improving Gaia GPS, we would love to have you sign up as part of our beta testing team. Here is a link to our Knowledge Base article that explains the steps to join.

You will need to have downloaded Gaia GPS from the Google Play store in order to participate.

Note: Because of this new program, we no longer update the old beta testing version of the app. If you paid for the old beta test copy, email us at android@gaiagps.com and we will happily send you a copy of the new version for free.

We posted an update to the Android version of Gaia GPS today, which adds the ability to download maps along a track or route. This has existed for a while in the iOS app, and it’s a super-convenient way to get a map of where you are going, which doesn’t take up much space on your SD card.

In addition, we did some house-cleaning based on your feedback! We fixed some lagginess that people reported when resuming the app, fixed waypoints and photos attaching to tracks, improved the UI when taking a photo, improved the Trip Computer recording UI, made the bottom stat bar remember stats, and actually a few other performance improvements and bug fixes.

Drop us a line at android@gaiagps.com with any comments. Many days, it’s your emails that are defining what we do.

The new release of Gaia GPS for Android is packed with new features, but the most important addition is probably a tool that lets you measure distance and create multipoint routes. We have been thinking about this route-maker for literally years, and we have implemented similar features in our iOS app. This rendition is how we always wanted it to be.

Besides the route-maker, you’ll find new abilities to crop tracks, change track colors, and you’ll see thumbnails for your tracks in your saved list, which makes finding the one you want to look at much easier.

More to come. Let us know what you think at support@gaiagps.com

We just shipped a new Android beta release for Gaia GPS, which you can download here. We’ll roll these changes out to the main app later this week.

This update actually wasn’t as much work for us as some of the last few, but we think you may notice this one more than the others, regardless. It includes a route-making & distance measuring tool, which is even better than our iOS version. I’d call this the Berlin Wall in terms of unifying Gaia GPS feature parity across iOS and Android.

We also added some other very visual features, like showing thumbnails for tracks in the Saved list, and the ability to change track colors by pressing those thumbnails.

You can probably find some differences between our iOS and Android apps now, but the two apps are essentially the same from here. The Android app shines in some respects (like map speed and route-making) that we are going to have to go back and play catch-up on iOS now, too.