Glomus

Glomus is a “general purpose” GPS tracking app made for non-professional users.

• Inspirations:
  • “Geo Tracker” by Ilya Bogdanovich

Glomus should contain following modules:

• GPS tracking module (fetching and saving tracks and single locations)
• map module (displaying tracks)
• communication modules (saving tracks on several internet servers)

• Glomus Drawer
• Glomus map screen
  • the same as:
    • “Actual position” screen
    • “Track map” screen
• Glomus track list screen
• Glomus track details screen
• Glomus track textual details screen
• Glomus settings screen
• Glomus about screen

Useful links:

• Icons
  • Material Icons
  • https://fonts.google.com/icons
    • complete list with filtering etc.

• Save Tracks
• Show saved tracks

• Share location
• Share track
• Show preview icon on track list
  • standard icon
  • map with preview (?)
  • something different ?
• Favorites
  • like in Gmail

• Glomus MQTT integration
• “Find my phone” - functionality (in future versions) - see GPS tracker for Android for possible implementation

Sorted by relevance

Organization: https://maplibre.org/

https://maplibre.org/maplibre-compose/getting-started

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-compose

See also:

• https://maplibre.org/maplibre-native/android/examples/

https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge

• OSM-based

• Articles
  • https://medium.com/@ulukiancuk/offline-navigation-with-mapsforge-in-jetpack-compose-cfb48422471f

By Pierre Laurence

https://github.com/p-lr/MapCompose

• OSM-based

• Description: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/maps-compose
• Repo: https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-compose

• Articles
  • How To Use Google Map In Jetpack Compose? by Bahar

https://developers.arcgis.com/kotlin/

• NOT free
• very nice documentation

• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software_libraries
  • Android:
    • https://github.com/kodapan/osm-common/
    • https://github.com/westnordost/osmapi/
    • Mapbox
      • is NOT free, so not checked
        • but 25k Users for Map view are free

• To sort
  • Open Street Maps SDK in Kotlin – Teil 1 Live-Demo & Einführung by Android with Haroon

• Google Maps: https://medium.com/@mahbooberezaee68/how-to-use-google-map-in-jetpack-compose-dc21920b0cb8
  • Overviews:
    • https://fosspost.org/android-open-source-google-maps-alternatives
    • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
    • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/different-type-map-sdks-inandroid-riyas-pullur-a2epc/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23542613/osm-osmsharp-osmdroid-mapbox-which-one-to-use
• OSMDroid:
  • https://mrappbuilder.medium.com/how-to-integrate-and-work-with-open-street-map-osm-in-an-android-app-kotlin-564b38590bfe
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77297775/create-a-map-using-openstreetmap-with-jetpack-compose-in-kotlin-programming-lang
• Mapsforge
• MapCompose
  • https://github.com/p-lr/MapCompose
    • an (old) article about MapCompose: https://medium.com/@p.laurence/mapview-for-jetpack-compose-614caab904af

• Glomus Version 1.0
  • Glomus Version 1.1
• Glomus Version 2.0

GPS tracker apps for Android list

Glomus domain name search

Glomus publishing problems in PlayStore

• Add a scrollable list
• Create a slide-in menu with the navigation drawer component