[Qgis-user] QGIS for android got GPS and compass support

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi Marco,

 I tested with the Samsung Galaxy Notes telephone on Android 2.3.x and 
 it seems to work fine! Good job!

 Andreas

 On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:51:38 +0100, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
> Hi all,
> Lately I’ve been working on adding native GPS support to QGIS on
> Android and sucessfully managed to implement it. A big thanks goes to
> the municipality of Schoten in Belgium which sponsored the
> developement. This functionality is included in the latest nightly
> builds as of yesterday and in master-alpha4.
>
> Furthermore I've implemented a plugin that reads the internal compass
> readings and shows the value in a small dock widget.
>
> Other bugs like the font size have been fixed and the overall look is
> much nicer.
>
> As usual, all the latest news, bugs and downloads can be found at [0]
> or on my blog [1]
>
> As a last message, remember that any economic support will make QGIS
> on android evolve much quicker, so if you can, or know somebody who
> could, please consider sponsoring.
>
> Ciao
> Marco
>
> [0] http://android.qgis.org
> [1] Http://opengis.ch

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