Hey stumblers,
Those of you with a Firefox OS device and willing to risk the bleeding
edge can try out a new stumbling app.
The fourth pre-release of MvdStumbler can be found on:
http://pocz.org/ac/projects/mvdstumbler/mvdstumbler.html
This is a pre-release because it has not had other users and has only
been tested on one device (the "Alcatel" branded One Touch fire, code
name 'hamachi') with one version of the operating system (v 1.2). It
probably has fragile edges, may crash, may consume all the memory, seems
to slow down in the fourth hour of use, and generally does not have the
polish of a finished application. Stopping and restarting occasionally
may be needed. However, I have been stumbling Montevideo, Uruguay with
it for the last few months and have uploaded over a hundred thousand
observations so it does work. Hopefully, it can work for some others of
you as well.
If you have strong privacy concerns, this app is not for you. There is
no 'fencing' yet so if you don't want to record your position you have
to stop the recording yourself. Also, the observation data are stored in
the open on the /sdcard partition where any other app can read them.
The app logs observations to memory then, every two hundred observations
or so, writes them to the /sdcard/ partition. On newer devices that's
not the external card which is an issue. The observations can be
uploaded when written to the card or at the end of stumbling session
when back on a less costly internet connection.
The Map needs work. The current background is a bit of a joke. It does
not show you where you are currently. If you re-open the app, it does
not parse the observations to show you where they were. That's all work
in progress although the first issue is hard. The general problem of
getting good, high resolution background map data onto Firefox devices
remains open.
Anyhow, some you you may want to play with this.
Happy stumblin',
~adrian
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