As usual, some misterious and strange happened with OVI store.

The new Supporter Lite edition has failed because "the app links to external stores and this is forbidden by the agreement". Instead, Supporter and free versions are passing with no remarks. Note that as usual those are all the SAME build.

Of course FreeTrack does not have ANY reference to any "store" whatsoever, just a link to www.trackaway.org...

Why is OVI always so erratic?

Anyway, you shuold be quite exited because development is proceeding fast (albeit a LOT of work will be required for Track@Way 1.0)... i am adding calculations for DOP to improve precision of points and also a dedicated saltellite info page which will show you all the satellites currently in use! I, at least, am excited...

Something very bad...

Unfortunately something very bad happened. The latest OVI store published FreeTrack is seriously broken and will NOT start on most phones. I am pushing quickly a fixed 1.3.28 but given the slugginesh of OVI store process do not expect an update any time soon.

I am really sorry. Meanwhile you can download the latest 1.3.28 from www.trackaway.org and enjoy a couple of serious bug fixes!

Development progress...

The idea of chaning TrackPoint to GPS_point, which will be derived from QGeoCoordinate AND discard all the drawing code its proving to be good. Also this is a good apportunity to stop using QPointF to store lat/lon, due to the annoying limit of using single precision on ARM which leads to serious precision limits.

So far so good... stay tuned!

RIght now i am investigating if using GPSBabel for GPX read/write is a good idea...

Serious bug in 1.3.25 (OVI store)

A serious bug has been discovered in release 1.3.25 from OVI store which, on some phones, make the app crash almost on startup.
A new 1.3.27 is in the way, meanwhile please download 1.3.26b from www.trackaway.org!

Being a bit fed up with working with other stuff, i am back coding for Track@Way release 1.0 (which was previously called FreeTrack release 2.0)....

Right now i started working on replacing the TrackPoint classes with a GPS_point class which is DERIVED from QGeoCoordinate. The idea is to go a bit more Qt-like (am i crazy?) and create my own derived QPainter and put all the real drawing code in there.

So the TrackPoint is now simply a GPS_point...

New release and many news...

Hi all!

Today i have RELEASED FreeTrack 1.3.26!

The most important news is support for time and distance based tracking methods! Now you can track points based on elapsed time or walked distance.... Enjoy!

Meanwhile, i have been moving all pointers from OVI store and from the Google Code web site to the new web sites:
http://www.trackaway.org
http://trac.trackaway.org
http://forums.trackaway.org

There is also some news from the Android port... It has been started! Right now, its 100% experimental and also, its stopped. Yes, i need to wait for BogDan Vatra to release the next SDK for Necessitas before the QtMobility libraries will be portable to real devices. So for now, i can tell you that IT COMPILES out of the box (amazing job BogDan and friends!) but i am still unable to deploy it.

Stay tuned...

So far... its good!

FreeTrack is approaching 11.000 downloads!

It might not be much compared to Android numbers, but there are many facts that make me think its a LOT under Nokia OVI Store.

For example, this week FreeTrack is n.6 best seller (most downloads) app! (at least for Nokia 5800, probably for all S60/Symbian^3?) in the Sports category!

Anyway, i will soon publish another 1.3 release featuring:
- updated translations
- added a small circle to mark the current position more clearly
- some minor twichtes.

I am trying to build the android development environment, and so far i am installing qt-mobility... lets see...

Anyway do not despair: soon the next development cycle will begin!