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Apps » IpBike » Some feedback and requests

Started by JamesT Sep 22 2012, 17:13

JamesT Posts: 3	Sep 22 2012, 17:13 Hi Ifor, First - thanks so much for creating IpBike. It's turned my phone in to something so much more useful than just a phone and I use it every time I'm out on my road bike (not risking mounting a phone on the handlebars of my mountain bike given my tendency for crashing!). Price - happy to pay £5. A tiny sum compared to the cost of pretty much anything else bike related (including the bit of SportyPal plastic used to mount the phone to the bike). There's nothing out there outside the world of Garmin that compares, so £5 plus an Xperia Active is a bargain. Main display - looking forward to more configurability here and swipe screens if you can do it. I've sorted it for what I like to see most of the time but it's certainly not as easy to set up as my Garmin watch thing. Plot - never use it. Upload to TP is great though. A few things I'd really like: - set display brightness individually to the app. Don't know if that can be done but it's a pain having to remember to reduce brightness before going out for a ride. I like to keep my display on all the time, at a medium brightness, as I use the app mainly as a map (have the Garmin watch thing for other data) - some kind of screen lock using a hard key. When riding in the rain, or dripping sweat!, the phone sometimes goes mad and thinks various buttons are being pressed. Damn annoying, especially when you've gone out not expecting rain! - wheel circumference. GPS watch thing can do this automatically by comparing with GPS data. I noticed quite a discrepancy between the distance reported by the two apps. I have been lazy and not entered an exact number for my bike though That's it for now. It's a great app.
Ifor Moderator Posts: 939	Sep 24 2012, 19:19 Thanks for the feedback I will keep it in mind. Screen brightless would be possible in the app but I am not keen on replicateing standard functionality especialy as in this case I would need a modify global setting permission which is one of the more heavy weight ones. Personaly I have a Brightness Level widget on the home screen that allows easy adjustment with just a couple of touches. For the screen lock. The ticky thing here is that the only hard button a modern phone may have is the power button and intercepting that from code is not trivial as there are security implications. I will try and see what other people are doing with this sort of stuff. Any pointers to get examples would be good. Auto-calibrateing wheel size off the gps is only realy good if you do a diliberate calibration on a good nice long straight bit of road so the gps gets into a good steady state. It's far easier to measure the wheel circumfirance for most people. Any continuas calibration is liable to just bring the quirky gps issues over stating and understateing the distance to the wheel based data which I don't think is a good idea.
Ifor Moderator Posts: 939	Jan 13 2013, 19:57 1.2.7 has a lockscreen option if your phone has a camera button. You need to go to Settings - Audo - Visual settings - Key over-rides - camera key and then select lockscreen. In use the cammera button will lock then unlock the screen when you press it again. Basicaly I lock out all the in App buttons and touch events unfortuantly I can not lock out the home button if that is an onscreen button style Android do not have an API to intercept it and consider it a security problems if apps do so. I also can not stop the notification area swipe down but that's not so likely to happen in the rain.