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FillUp - Gas Mileage Log (Android App)
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Option to use trip miles instead of odometer. #23

Open wdkapps opened 10 years ago

wdkapps commented 10 years ago

User review: Overall, a good app, but would be better with the option to use trip miles instead of odometer.

wdkapps commented 10 years ago

I have no idea how this would work. Would the app just add the trip miles to a previous odometer value? If you don't track all gas purchases and mileage the statistics will never be accurate. I'm up for ideas.

cyrildtm commented 10 years ago

Sometimes one may know the exact trip miles of one trip. But he/she has forgotten to read the odometer immediately after the trip. For example a case in which a user keeps the trip miles and fuel amount on a notebook. A few days later he/she becomes free, and would like to enter the data into the app. But at that time the odometer reading has been incremented, because he/she has driven it to work after that trip.

It might be better if we have both options to record the miles. In addition, one could calibrate the app by entering the true odometer reading, maybe after several weeks only entering trip miles, without entering fuel data.

I'm your user who likes your app a lot. Hope this could help.

wdkapps commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. It does help to understand what a user is looking for. But I'm not sure how to tie that in with the existing app features.

If we add a new feature "Add Trip" for example, and it allows a user to enter:

What should FillUp do with that data? The current Log is based on odometer values. So do we add that trip to the Log based on some ending odometer value and assume it indicates that some data was lost since the previous odometer entry? Or do we track trips in a different "Trip Log"?

cyrildtm commented 10 years ago

A simple way is convert trip miles to odometer data by simply adding. Then treat the user input as if it were a typical odometer / fuel data.