[jesper]

Hi John

After a recent upgrade the auto tilt and auto zoom works good, but I find that it zooms in too close (when on the home screen). I can see further on the road than I can see on the map. Some suggestions:
– Show the zoom level in the bottom corner on the map widget, like on the map screen.
– Have the auto zoom level a bit further out on the widget.
– Make the arrow indicating position and direction smaller, remove the blue circle around it and instead have a border around the arrow, like the arrow in the status bar. The way it is now, the arrow covers very much of the map, and makes the position on zoom levels that are functional very hard to see (see attached screenshot). Maybe in the future also user selectable arrow styles? 🙂
– Less shading on the light theme, for increased visibility.

Version 2.99917

I have manually zoomed out in this screenshot.

Also, a gold accent colour option would be very nice.

Thanks for the great work you do!

Best regards
Jesper

[jesper]

Hi again

Is the app compatible with a 4-button controller? I’m contemplating on making a 4-button controller. What would you recommend, programming the HID device to send different keypresses based on the length of the press, so each button has a long press and a short press HID code? Or should each button only have one key code each, and just send the key pressed down and key released events, and let DMD2 handle the key press length?

BR

Jesper

[jesper]

João Pereira wrote:

A device with Play Store required you to buy the license from the Play Store… this is mandatory or Google will quickly ban us from Play Store. The standalone license (which you buy from the Thork Racing website) can really only be used with devices without Google Play Store. Sorry about that!

No problem, such is life. I will start with the Play Store version then. And then buy the standalone when I switch device.

What about OBD Speed and the number of button presses to switch between widgets?

Best regards

Jesper

[jesper]

jesper wrote:

Hi John I bought a DMD2 licence for devices without Play Store, because I will possibly be moving to a device without Play Store in the future. I’m using the downloaded APK and not the Play Store version, but it was not possible to activate the license unless I deactivated Google Play Services. When I reactivated the Google Play Services again, the DMD2 the “Buy Plugin” box reappears and when I deactivate the Play Services, the box is gone again. I understand that directing users to buy the license outside the Play Store is probably against Googles terms, and compiling two different version (one for Play Store and one for the website) is also hassle. But is it possible to change the code, so DMD2 recognizes an activated license even though Play Services are activated? Also i noticed when I tested a HID keyboard with DMD2, it requires three button presses on the arrow key to switch between widgets on the right when the left widget is in focus and vice versa. Is there a reason for this? Couldn’t it be that when the left widget is in focus, as soon as you press KEYCODE_DPAD_UP or KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN, it goes to the previous or the next widget page? And the same the other way around when the right widget is active. Best regards Jesper

Hi John

Going to buy the map plugin, and was wondering if I can safely buy the standalone license and be able to use it on both devices with and without Play Services in the future? Also, are you planing on adding OBD Speed to the widgets? 🙂

Best regards
Jesper

• This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by jesper. Reason: I wrote GPS speed but meant OBD speed

[jesper]

Hi John

I bought a DMD2 licence for devices without Play Store, because I will possibly be moving to a device without Play Store in the future. I’m using the downloaded APK and not the Play Store version, but it was not possible to activate the license unless I deactivated Google Play Services. When I reactivated the Google Play Services again, the DMD2 the “Buy Plugin” box reappears and when I deactivate the Play Services, the box is gone again.

I understand that directing users to buy the license outside the Play Store is probably against Googles terms, and compiling two different version (one for Play Store and one for the website) is also hassle. But is it possible to change the code, so DMD2 recognizes an activated license even though Play Services are activated?

Also i notised when I tested a HID keyboard with DMD2, it requires three button presses on the arrow key to switch between widgets on the right when the left widget is in focus and vice versa. Is there a reason for this?

Couldn’t it be that when the left widget is in focus, as soon as you press KEYCODE_DPAD_UP or KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN, it goes to the previous or the next widget page? And the same the other way around when the right widget is active.

Best regards
Jesper

[jesper]

João Pereira wrote:

Map View is indeed limited to the left panel because it can only be loaded in one place and im too lazzy to make the required extra work to check if its already loaded and show you a message saying it is already loaded and all the other require work to handle all that.

Makes total sense.

BR

Jesper

[jesper]

Hi John

Possible bug:

It looks like Map view is missing as an option on the right widget on the home screen. I don’t know if this is intentional.

v2.992

BR

Jesper

[jesper]

Thanks for the insight into your thought process and philosophy! It makes a lot of sense, and I can releate to it.

I was not actually suggesting using the frontend of OsmAnd, just using it as a backend to lighten the workload. But with the future functions and plans you are mentioning here, it sounds like it will be much better than OsmAnd, and would like to withdraw my suggesion 😛 Really looking forward to the loop function!

I will be pushing this app on my riding friends group this summer.

Talking about riding groups. We usually use Discord to communicate on trips. Discord has a WebSocket API. I would definitely pay for a plugin to be able to see who are in a channel and jump in and out of a channel with two taps. Or another VoIP service, like one built on the Matrix protocol https://matrix.org/.

BR

Jesper

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by jesper.

[jesper]

Hi John

Talking about turn-by-turn…. how is that implemented? Do you need to have premade GPX? Does DMD2 have a built in routing engine or is it dependent on a online routing engine?

OsmAnd is a very good and powerful offline navigation app, with offline routing engine. But I guess you are familiar with it.

Will DMD2 be able to use the same map files as OsmAnd if you set OsmAnd to use the shared storage on the device? I am asking since both DMD2 and OsmAnd are using Open Street Maps. This way you would avoid having duplicates of the maps.

OsmAnd has an API for integration with other apps. This could maybe simplify map downloads, route calculation, GPX generation and other tasks? The only downside I see is that OsmAnd has to be installed alongside DMD2.

OsmAnd has a demo app for the API where you can test some of it.

Just to be clear: this is a local API in the OsmAnd app, not an online API on the internet.

BR

Jesper

[jesper]

Hi again

I don’t know if it’s a bug, but when I try to tap on the different “Buy Plugin” buttons, nothing happens. Both on APK install and Play Store version.

 

BR

Jesper

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