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ekelly / Husky-Hunters-Android

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Remove get directions #2

Open ekelly opened 12 years ago

ekelly commented 12 years ago

For battery life concerns

wylieconlon commented 12 years ago

Directions are an important part of the app. Maybe you shouldn't have a phone with such terrible battery life! :P

ekelly commented 12 years ago

Maybe I should just make it an option. But I was discussing this with steve, and keep in mind, GPS takes A LOT of battery, on any phone. And if we're going to be out there for 7 hours at a time, with say an hour break, there isn't a phone in the world with a batter that can keep up.

wylieconlon commented 12 years ago

So the individual clue page is supposed to have two buttons: take a photo, and get directions.

A map could fit on this page, but might not be appropriate. Instead, I propose that the directions part be split into two components: map and text. The map could be zoomable, and would show your current GPS coordinates and the coordinates of the clue. The Google Maps API also has directions that we can use, which come with a text output.

By splitting up the map and text, we don't have to have the GPS sensor on to get directions. As they're two ways to view the same info, tabs would be appropriate.

ekelly commented 12 years ago

Maybe for version 3 or something. But it's going to take a lot of work to get this to work, and that time would probably be better spent on the (future) iphone app