Miscellaneus Comments on 1.0.108

[IsmaelInRedlands]

I tested the app today to get to a customer's office. Some quick comments:

• First of all, the app got me where I wanted to go. So overall, it did its job. The comments below are just enhancements.
• I tested it twice:
  • From my hotel to the customer's office. Distance 1300m
  • From customer's office to the Esri Portland Office 600m
• Remember Distance Units: It would be nice if the app would remember my distance unit choices. I like to work in metric system, but it will always reset itself to imperial everytime I start the app.
• Landscape/Portrait mode switching: When you use this app, I typically hold the device flat in my hand like I were using a compass. In this flat position, the app was jumping between landscape and portrait mode as I walked. It was annoying. It seems to me like supporting only portrait in a mobile phone would be reasonable. If using a tablet we may want to go landscape only.
• Start moving!: The Travel Direction not recognized dialog is meaningless. I would suggest we change it to Start Moving.
• I found the arrow jumping in different directions while I walked. Once can tell that the arrow is not correct for small periods of time. It seems to be related to how this app is calculating my direction based on my path. It would seem to me like the device may be sending locations that are off by a few meters, substantially changing the direction of travel.
• I do not understand the purpose of the new option to show or hide the outer arrow. Well, I know what it does (shows and hides the outer arrow and the circle), but I just do not know why I would want to turn it on and off. I am playing dumb here because I think the question from a user would be fair. It is not obvious what the meaning of that would be.
• Really liked the callback function functionality.

[IsmaelInRedlands]

A bit more about observations with this build: Tried again the app, this case in a car. Nice ride to a climbing gym 13 Km from Portland. The app worked much, much better while driving. Only when we stopped at a traffic light the arrow would go crazy (randomly). Once the car was in motion it would pick up pretty quickly and get back to normal. The behavior seemed consistent with what I experienced in the morning walking.

[marikavertzonis]

• remember distance units is in
• landscape / portrait mode - we discussed this at length, and decided that both modes had a place on all devices (eg: a phone mount on a quad bike could be either landscape or portrait depending on what gave a better view of the screen). saying that the jumping around shouldn't happen. I been walking with an iphone6 and android nexus 6 and not seen this. if the problem persists - created a specific issue.
• After much discussion, start moving message as been changed to "Start moving to determine direction"
• Bouncing arrow comments moved to its own issue - #31
• the purpose of the setting to hid or show the circle and arrow was purely so we could try out both scenarios easily. The decision for release 1.0 is to go with circle only and no arrow. This can be reconsidered in future releases.
• Note that callback only works on iOS at the moment. On Android you go back to a black screen. More work required on this - #2

Closing this discussion issue.