[Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released

Tue Sep 21 10:18:15 CEST 2010

Hi Henry,

Are you sure gvSIG Mini is still consuming battery while is in the background? I guess the battery life menu on Android shows the battery life usage of applications since the OS start up, not the current usage of the battery...

When gvSIG Mini Map activity is paused (is in the background) GPS and orientation sensor are stopped. For example, if you are on the Map activity and press the home button you'll see that the GPS icon on the notification bar disappears. So when in background it would not consume any battery... This happens since version 1.0.0 of gvSIG Mini, earlier versions did not disable GPS and background operations.

Apart from this, for sure there's room to improve the battery life consumption of gvSIG Mini while running :)

Regards,  

Alberto Romeu
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es
> [mailto:gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es] En nombre de Henry
> Bush
> Enviado el: lunes, 13 de septiembre de 2010 16:29
> Para: Users and Developers mailing list
> Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released
> 
> I see. By "exit button", you mean the back button, right? Good to
> know, and it seems to work, but IMHO it's not very intuitive. I've
> been using Android for quite some time, and no other app that I've
> come across works like this: if I've finished with an app, I'm used to
> pressing home to go somewhere else. Is it doing anything in particular
> in the background when I press home? Or just waiting for me to go back
> to it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Henry
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 15:14, Javier Carrasco <jcarrasco at prodevelop.es>
> wrote:
> > This is the correct place.
> >
> > Please use the exit button of your phone to terminate gvSIG Mini
> > completely. If you use the HOME button gvSIG mini stays running on
> > background. If you use a task killer you will close just the
> > GUI and not the background processes.
> >
> > Regards
> > Javi
> >
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at listserv.gva.es en nombre de Henry Bush
> > Enviado el: lun 13/09/2010 14:18
> > Para: Users and Developers mailing list
> > Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.0 released
> >
> > It looks fabulous, and works brilliantly, but...
> > It seems to suck up battery even when it's not running. Having run it
> > once, I left it, and now the battery life menu thing says that it's
> > still draining my battery, even *after* force closing it. Where is the
> > correct place to submit bug reports? In case it's here, I'm using a
> > Nexus One on Android 2.2, shout if you need any more info.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Henry
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:16,  <comunicacion_gvsig at gva.es> wrote:
> >>
> >> gvSIG Mini development team is proud to announce the release of the
> >> stable version gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.
> >>
> >> This version offers, among other features, the ability of a direct
> >> download of maps from the phone to the storage card, for a further map
> >> displaying in offline mode, with no data connection.
> >>
> >> gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of free access maps based on tiles
> >> (OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, ...), with an off-line
> >> mode, a WMS & WMS-C client, address and POI search, routes and many
> >> more things.
> >>
> >> gvSIG Mini is an open source project (GNU/GPL) aimed at Java and
> >> Android mobile phones. Released version is 1.0.0 for Android.
> >>
> >> Main latest features of 1.0.0 version are the following ones:
> >>
> >>       * Map download directly from the mobile phone, for off-line usage.
> >>
> >>       * Off-line mode for viewing maps with no data connection.
> >>
> >>       * Multitouch support.
> >>
> >>       * New map rendering system, much more agile.
> >>
> >>       * Standard Android search button support.
> >>
> >>       * New layers available by default.
> >>
> >>       * UK Ordnance Survey official maps (rendered by OS).
> >>
> >>       * Settings menu with many options.
> >>
> >>       * New cache options.
> >>
> >>       * Android 2.2 support (now from 1.5 to 2.2).
> >>
> >> More than 20 bugs have also been fixed.
> >>
> >> Also available at Android Market.
> >>
> >> gvSIG Mini has been developed by Prodevelop.
> >>
> >> More information at:
> >>
> >>      * gvSIG Mini website: http://www.gvsigmini.org
> >>
> >>      * Press release:
> >>
> >> http://www.prodevelop.es/en/noticia/10/09/02/gvsig-mini-android-100-
> released
> >>
> >>      * Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mroyn88dgM and
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEx-0BC9LU
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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