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GPS - Speed Camera locations app??

Have I missed something or are there no Android apps yet which use GPS data to give a warning when there is close proximity to a POI??
I am thinking of Speed camera traps specifically, but there might be other uses. The up-to-date location of cameras in most countries is easily available in CSV format for download. It need only be a simple app with a flashing screen and sound alert when within say 400m (1/4 mile) of a location; no need to get all clever with maps etc!
I did this years ago with a serial port GPS and a psion 3, it was not pretty code, I'm guessing it must be far easier nowerdays......

http://www.cyrket.com/package/android.traffic

Cool and thanks for a speedy reply. Will give it a try

jashsu said:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/android.traffic
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Ah ha... this is a neat app to look at traffic conditions real time from cams. What I am looking for is a proximity warning for those sneaky police speed traps - the permanent cameras hidden just after bridges and behind trees and road signs which we are plagued with in the UK!!

Since my question last month there has been a whole spate of apps released which do this task:
Speed cam Hunter is the one that's survived longest on my phone thru testing and its not out of beta yet so can only get better. It uses the Foxytag database which has got a committed userbase and after some initial registration problems I was up and running.
Nice ui and a version for us left side of the road users in the UK shows attention to detail.
Frequent improvements have been made by the dev in response to user comment and I think it will be one I will be prepared to pay for in due course as it becomes a polished app.

robmal said:
Since my question last month there has been a whole spate of apps released which do this task:
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Most of which is the same person "Ted Teresa" releasing the same app under 50 different names, and from some of the reviews the app isn't that grand. Even has the hide to charge for some of the apps listed even though they seem to be the same as the free one.

Most interesting..... I hadn't spotted that. the good thing about the community that involves the more engaged G1 user is that eventually quality will win out in the end!
Cheers
Rob

EmWeather Canadian weather application

Dear Canadian htc magic/sapphire/dream/android users (and our international friends that visit Canada),
I just put up the beta version of EmWeather, my new weather application. It is very functional and looks nice. Most other weather apps do not provide this extended information or just have hooks to open weather underground websites (ie. slow and annoying). On top of that, most apps pull from Weather.com which, for Canada anyway, is next to useless.
Environment Canada provides excellent, surprisingly accurate, and very detailed forecasts for the whole country. This app aims to make this information easily available.
Features:
- Free, open-source
- Pulls data feeds from Environment Canada
- Shows current details and 8 extend forecasts on the main screen
- Easy access to detailed forecast information
- Ability to choose any city in canada, no need to do an independent search for obscure city codes.
- Wonderful GUI look
Coming in the next release:
- Alternative icon packs
- French language
Enjoy!
http://code.google.com/p/emweather/
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-emweather-emweather-qnCp.aspx

other devices
Hey Emilie, is there a way to get it working on "other" devices, can't open .apk....being from monrteal I would love this !
Thank you

Hi!
Hi, I'm not sure. What device? I only have an HTC Dream, as far as I know it should work on any android device, though I have to admit it is pretty hardcoded to the screen size.
I'm from montreal too

0.9.1 update
Hi, I just fixed a small silly bug that crept in. 0.9 shows every day as being the "Evening", this is fixed now

dancerobot said:
Hi, I'm not sure. What device? I only have an HTC Dream, as far as I know it should work on any android device, though I have to admit it is pretty hardcoded to the screen size.
I'm from montreal too
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Well....I know it's an HTC forum, but.....oh well my device is a omnia. And just so the people that run this site know, XDA is the place for Windows mobile devices and for MANY programmes, for exemple S2U2 and S2P. And the other sites don't have 1/5 of the information and activity that XDA as....
Thankx

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Well....I know it's an HTC forum, but.....oh well my device is a omnia
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I meant to say I have an HTC Magic, but still, it's the same.
Android is a totally different operating system (based on linux), there's really no way to get it to work with windows unless there is an emulator out there. I can't imagine having to program for a windows phone, sounds like a nightmare
Sorry!
Em

Hey i'm from montreal too! Thanks for the app I like the fact it's using the environment canada data.

That's OK, thanks

[APP] auto-mate first showing of features

Hi all
I've been a member of XDA for a while (have a hero and been on the villanrom builds since they began). But I am a developer full time and so I have decided to start in Windows Phone 7. I know silverlight, I know .NET so why not.
I have started the company 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' and this is a showing of the first application.
auto-mate. This app allows you to record your cars stats at each fuel up and service to allow you to view statistics about your cars. This app will also allow you to setup service types (months or miles) and the app will schedule them for you taking into account your mileage per year. MOT and Tax renewals are stored and show when they are close.
The reason for this app is this: I drive 24,000 miles / year which means that I need to maintain the car more than just a yearly service, this app will tell me when I need to change my oil or have a minor/major service based upon the miles I drive per year and the miles I'm doing recently allowing me to budget for it accordingly.
This app syncs to the cloud so you can look over all the cars you are monitoring from your office and export the information or book a service.
This app is in beta at the moment, it is not feature complete as I need you to be able to say you have done your MOT or Tax but its almost there. Of course with it syncing to the cloud there is a cost, that I MUST pass on somehow. I looked into Ads but Microsoft in thier wisdom only allow thier ad framework in america so Im out (UK). But I'm thinking of a free version that has ads (in future) and does not sync to cloud. Thoughts on what you would/might pay for this app would be greatly appreciated.
The future of the app?
Well I am planning a pro version which is for business mileage and will export from the web site allowing business travellers to fill out expense forms. But there are lots to add to this app as well.
Take a look at the vid and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyw_ivcygk
Njoy.

id add light comercial vans upto 3.5tonnes as many courier use wm devices so many will upgrade to wp7

Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.

4 or 5 euro isn't a bad prize .
if you could put in lpg and diesel blend (trucks that run on diesel and lpg ) then this app would be the hammer .
it would also be nice if you could ad your own car/truck .
lets say I have a scania R420 and I am driving on diesel and lpg , I would want to know if I am saving money .
normally a truck uses 32 litre of diesel every 100 KM
now it uses 22 litre of diesel and 10 litre of LPG
Diesel: costs 1 Euro
LPG: costs 0.50 Euro
it would be nice if your app could calculate my savings per 100 KM .
if you could make that happen you would have a winner .
Greetings Cees.

looks great! i would be willing to pay $5-7 for it without adds. I would also be willing to beta test for you as i am picking up a samsung focus on monday.
Keep up the good work, hopefully we will see this app in the market soon!

App showing in other games on my phone
I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny

Looks like a decent app but it also shows up in other gas for me

Thanks for comments
Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
Answers:
1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.

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Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
Answers:
1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.
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When I put it to my phone using a developer account its in the normal place. Strange

jgibo said:
I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny
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You could try uninstaling and resyncing, as its all stored online you just re log back in.

acky85 said:
Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.
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One idea I have going is that as the data is stored online, I should be able to send a message to the phone when a service / mot /tax is due and the pic will go amber and show a 1.
The thing i'm working on right now is auto-mate (offline edition). The basic functionality of keeping track of your vehicle, store when your tax/mot is, and it will schedule the services for you, but all offline. becuase of the zero cost to me, it will be priced low. thinking £0.75...
Hope to have that out in a week.

Just checked and microsoft has put it under games, when I specifically said Tools and it was under tools originally.???
Nice one microsoft.
I could e-mail microsoft to change this but I'll just do an update which will fix it. Sorry for it being in the wrong place, not my fault.

Glad to hear. I just tried uninstall and reinstall and it didn't work. I hope I can enter my 2 years of data easily on the website. Can't see doing that on the phone. I could just get a new car and start over Those new 5.0 mustangs are nice. Add sync and I would be a happy camper

Prepare to be one happy camper, now im not saying now, im not saying in 1 week but excel import/export is always a step in the process

Just to let you know, an update was sent to microsoft over the weekend. This update will put the app back in the apps list. Include better charting, bug fixes. And ability to send error reports on some errors if they happen

Thanks for the update. Finally moved from under Games. When will the web site be up? I still haven't entered my previous data. Have been hoping to do it online and sync to phone.

Its in alpha now.... Beta next then live.

I just realized after putting in my second entry that I can't enter how much per tank or price per gallon. Any chance you will be adding this?

Yes, this is coming in an update.

Clicking on the historical button for miles/week shows the graph for MPG?
Also, whenever I enable the live tile, save the settings. The marker always goes back to disabled?

[APP] Chemist Companion -[R]- 2/22/11 -[V]- 1.0

Name: Chemist Companion
This is my second app, and the reason I learned to develop apps.
There is a lot of reference material I use often in my line of work (synthetic chemist), and I wanted this info on my phone in a nice easy to use package. So I created it for my self and decided to share it with the rest of the world. It is NOT just another periodic table.
NIST Periodic Table
Thermodynamic Data (ΔG,ΔH,ΔS, Heat Capacity)
Physical properties of common solvents (Formula, MW, MP, BP, FP, Density, Solubility (in water), Relative permittivity (dielectric constant)
Relative pKa
Solvent miscibility table (I combined quite a few different tables to make the most comprehensive solvent miscibility table I have seen to date)
NMR shifts of common solvents/contaminants in common duterated solvents
I will be updating the software with much more data later, but I thought I would roll the first version out. For the practicing chemist it is an amazing companion. It might be helpful for students as well. It has already made my life much simpler, and if it helps anybody else, great.
There are two version, free ad supported, and a paid version for $1.99.
Both are available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
*DOWNLOAD*
These links should launch the Zune software, or just search Chemist Companion on the Marketplace.
Free version, ad supported.
Paid version, $1.99 US
*DOWNLOAD*
Questions and comments appreciated.

helllo
well, I'm a chemical engineer student myself and I would really appreciete such an application
however, i couldn't find it; tells me that the app is no longer available on the marketplace

virus975 said:
helllo
well, I'm a chemical engineer student myself and I would really appreciete such an application
however, i couldn't find it; tells me that the app is no longer available on the marketplace
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It went live right before I posted it, but it takes time for it to actually show up in the Marketplace, and it also appears to become available on the Marketplace at different time by region. Maybe they only push the new Apps at specific intervals throughout the day in different regions. Try again in a few hours or tomorrow morning!

Interesting app, however it says it's not in the marketplace.

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Interesting app, however it says it's not in the marketplace.
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Read post right before yours. Just time for Microsoft to push it out in the different regions and Markets, and clear caches and such. Check again soon!

It sounds really nice. Do you have a winmo version for sale? Also, some features (off the top of my head) that would be nice, even though I've never used it:
A PV=nRT calculator; esp. one that makes it easy to use different units, like atm or temp in celcius (l-atm/k-mol vs. j/k-mol)
A humidity calculator (i.e. saturated conc of water vapor in air as a function of temperature, or the conc of water vapor at a given humidity and temp); or, maybe just an Antoine equation calculator, with a database of constants for different liquids, as well as the possibility to import constants for things that aren't stock.
Unit converter (like temp (C, F, K) and pressure (bar, atm, psi...))
Anyway, wish I could use it, and good luck!

SeeMe GPS Real Time Tracker [2.1+]

New realtime web tracking system, runs on any phone 2.1+
You can send links to people you want to share your position with. Has configurable "update" times and shows last update/update interval/battery status on the web tracking page (useful for example when you are outside, roaming wilderness for many hours and need to save those last 10% of battery by turn long update interval - people watching you do not freak out, why didn't you move for a long time).
Current status: works, I am optimizing the GPS usage for battery savings.
Market link

Had to move this to the Paid Apps forum
Nice app too

nice
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Great app! Extremely happy with it!

that the spirit

nice app
i'll give a try, specially usefull when you for some reason lend your mobile

Does it work even without GSM signal or not?
Tnx

It's the app that I looking for ! Awesome

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Does it work even without GSM signal or not?
Tnx
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It does, over Wifi.

I am the author of this app and have one question - did you ever clicked on ads in this app? I am just trying to make a kind of "Survey" between users to know, which way to go. I have the paid version, but it doesn't sell well, so I made the Ad-supported version, listed in Google Play for free, but not many people click the ads.
What do you think? Do you think, that having the app free, supported with ads is viable option for me?

Does this application allows recording and upload tracks?
I`m looking for app like old GPSed for iOS and Blackberry.

pR13S7 said:
Does this application allows recording and upload tracks?
I`m looking for app like old GPSed for iOS and Blackberry.
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No, it just allows realtime tracking for now.

kokesh said:
Do you think, that having the app free, supported with ads is viable option for me?
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For the most part if I use and like an app, I will get the paid version. Outside of that, I don't see the ads, and I would not click on them if I did.
Via my HTC Rezound

It is strange. They have stopped showing for some reason, I have experienced it on my devices several times. I'll look into that

hmmm. great app, starting to download now. thanks

Not sure about this time tracking application. We had been using Replicon's time tracking product suite which is an easy to use cloud based solution. It has a simple to use calendar view interface, great features for usability and unparalleled back up support too. NO issues till date, had been quite efficient and productive tool.

braden shaw said:
Not sure about this time tracking application. We had been using Replicon's time tracking product suite which is an easy to use cloud based solution. It has a simple to use calendar view interface, great features for usability and unparalleled back up support too. NO issues till date, had been quite efficient and productive tool.
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Good try, spam bot This ain't time tracking

Looking forwark to seeing and app like that

nice application, ang i want to tray this. thanks

Nice app... but
I just downloaded your free version to see how it worked before purchasing and have a question.
In your description it says you can send links by email but there is no option through the phone app to send links at all. The only place I seen that offers any type of links to send is on the website. I think this option should be offered through the phone app.
Is this something you plan on adding?