Mobile Trail Explorer v1.7

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I proudly present the release of Mobile Trail Explorer v1.7. Development team have created an excellent release that contains many highly requested features like exporting saved trails from phone’s memory. There are also new views such as satellite sky view which was contributed by Anthony McCormack. Development team have also grown as Gareth Jones joined in few days ago. Welcome aboard!

So what have changed? Here are the release notes for the v1.7:

  • Changed Logging Levels to more “understandable” ones.
  • Logger now states what level it’s currently logging at.
  • Changed How Trails & GpsPositions are serialized
  • Implemented a Version system, to allow for updates etc.
  • Implemented an update feature for version 1.6 and lower
  • Implemented re-exporting of Tracks that are saved in RMS (Issue 44)
  • Satellite sky view (Issue 51)
  • Track elevation view (Issue 31)
  • Export saved trail (Issue 45/50)
  • Added Sms Ability to send a GpsPosition/Waypoint as an SMS! (Issue 52)
  • Drawing style options (draw whole the trail or end of the trail)

Mobile Trail Explorer - Trail view Mobile Trail Explorer - Elevation view

Mobile Trail Explorer - Information view Mobile Trail Explorer - Waypoints view

Mobile Trail Explorer - Satellites view Mobile Trail Explorer - Satellite sky view


You can download the latest binaries from Mobile Trail Explorer page, and you can download the source code from Google Code project page. Let us know how it works? Do you like it or not?

  • Anonymous

    You Guys Rock

  • Jan Grønlien

    Help.
    When I start the midlet, it fails with:
    Null Pointer
    java/lang/NullPointerException
    Logger.logger is null. The first time you access the logger, you must use getLogger(ReordSettings).
    My phone is Nokia 6233

  • Jan Grønlien

    After deleting and installing Mobile Trail Explorer, the midlet works great.
    Seems like the problem was caused by the “update”.

  • http://www.vesta.co.za P.K Robbertse

    Support for the Nokia E90 GPS ?

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    We don’t have any devices with built-in GPS unit so it is hard to add support for those devices. We will add support to such a devices as soon as we can have access one device.

  • Paolo

    Hi i’m using trail explorer 1.7 on my Nokia E65 here in Italy and it’s all Ok,
    but I noticed that the mobile slow down when I start it.
    Perhaps is the count down of the days that get slow my phone.. (e.g. 2 days from the last use) I think it get slow my phone, because I haven’t other programs installed on it.

    Could you in next version of trail explorer cancel that function and not count the day from the last use?

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    Paolo: If you aren’t using the software then it shouldn’t slow it down. I don’t quite understand what counting are you referring to? Mobile Trail Explorer only displays the time from the last known GPS position so that user can see when he lost the satellite fix.

    Symbian devices are well known to be buggy so you should check if there are any firmware updates to your E65.

  • Soenke

    Hi, would it be possible to add SonyEricsson HGE-100 support to mobile trail explorer? It’s the new corded GPS-headset from SonyEricsson. Actually there are only paid navigation-applications and a tracker without export-function like i use it with your software.

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    Soenke: I believe that it would be possible to add support for HGE-100. Only problem is that we don’t have access to that device and therefore it is quite hard to implement the integration code.

    Do you know what protocol does it support? As it is corded it probably doesn’t support Bluetooth but it might work the same way as other integrated GPS units that use JSR-179. This is something that I have planned to implement as it would then work with devices like Nokia N95.

  • Soenke

    HGE-100
    Sorry, don’t know the protocol. Just know about the HGE-100 compatible JAVA-apps.

    Special version of Wayfinder Nav
    http://ext-wf-dl.wayfinder.com/sehge100/java/wayfinder_navigator-java-jp7_240x320-sehge100-en.jar

    Special version of Wayfinder Earth
    http://ext-wf-dl.wayfinder.com/sehge100_earth/java/wayfinder_earth-java-jp7_240x320-sehge100-en.jar

    there are also a Tracker and a GPS-Location app but I haven’t found a way to DL them from SE-homepage, yet.
    Maybe you can get the informations about the protocol by a decomplied jar?

  • Mayank

    your applications are great. i got ur link by google. now i download all ur applications for R&D. i am working in j2me gamming but i want to swich gamming to application bcoz i am crazzy about applications. so your application will help me a lot for study the jsrs and their implementations.

    if u have some other links from which i can download th application for study purpose then please send it to me my mail id mayank.be.mib@gmail.com

    Thanks & Regards
    Mayank Kumar Varshney
    India

  • http://www.leue.net Andreas

    Tommi,
    concerning E90 support – for how long would you need such a phone to examine it? I could send you mine for a period of time, if that helps. Alternatively, is there anything you could do remotely? Or (if I get reasonably detailed instructions what to do), I could do some investigation myself.

    Andreas

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    Andreas: Thank you for the generous offer but I couldn’t really borrow your E90.

    On the other hand there is something that you could do: You could test our latest build that includes a support for JSR-179 (Integrated GPS). Beta can be downloaded here. You can activate the feature from the the development menu: Settings > Development Menu > Use JSR179

    Please report how it works on your E90.

  • http://www.leue.net Andreas

    Ok, I downloaded the beta (needed to specify the jad-file at the same location) and could activate the development option and select the device under GPS device. It now allows starting recording, but says “No GPS fix.0″. That may be so since I currently cannot see any satellites. More info in the evening…

  • http://www.leue.net Andreas

    So, well, it keeps saying “No GPS fix.0″ – it was not related to the signal availability. Can I do something else?

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    Andreas: I created an issue for this problem and hopefully other developers will give some feedback so that we could solve this.

  • http://none Pierre

    Hi,
    Thanks for this great idea. I was looking for such a java app for long : difficult to find an application that shows sky view using JSR 179.

    So I installed version 1.14, and selected “Use JSR 179″

    Unfortunatly I have an issue with my nokia 2710 (Build-in GPS, JSR-179).
    As soon as I activate the search for a GPS, I got very shortly a screen showing that JSR179 GPS as been found (though hard to be sure what is actually written) and then immediatly after I got a reboot of the phone. Badly, no idea about the error that occured.
    Too bad !

    Anyway thanks to you & the team for your efforts.

    Pierre