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add an automatic offline countdown #31

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
My use case is that often I don't have data on my phone, but I do have wifi.

So what happens is this:

- before leaving the house / restaurant / party / etc I check bus tracker, and 
see I have 10 minutes to get my bus.
- once I've set off I don't have any new information about the bus, so I have 
to mentally compare the time I left at with the time now and calculate when the 
bus will arrive.

My suggestion for a feature would be the ability to set the bus times list page 
into an offline countdown mode, in which the times count down from their last 
known value.

So:

1. check bustracker, says that bus is in, say 10 minutes
2. enable countdown mode. The '10 minutes' indicator begins counting down.
3. Leave the house & disable wifi and you still have an idea of when the bus is 
due.

Obviously this would be an an approximation, but I think it would be handy :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joachi...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 12:13