QGIS for android alpha 7

7, my luck number… So here you are, the latest and greatest QGIS for Android. This release includes the super new pinch zoom tool, should have no blocking dialogs anymore (i fixed the attribute table) and the help->about shows now from which commit the package has been created. The packages containing armeabi and armeabi-v7a code are still less stable that the armeabi only packages (the ones with the -armeabi suffix) which are still the preferred. Read more…

QGIS for android gets Pinch zooming

Well, it is a super winter and there is a lot of snow here in Switzerland and all this makes me super happy which means that my productivity increases… here you are, the last and greatest improvement for QGIS on android: a fancy zooming map tool like you know from other applications like google maps. The tool allows for: panning pinch zooming double tap zoom in with Center twofinger tap zoom out Furthermore I added Read more…

QGIS for android alpha 6

Hi all, release time again… happens that just couple of hours after i pushed alpha5, the necessitas framework received a new update [1] that addresses some important issues. Meanwhile I managed to compile GEOS and GDAL with armeabi-v7a optimizations [1]https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-qt/NQCRsz92ois/C511seqSFwEJ

QGIS on android ALPHA 5

Hi all couple of days ago I pushed a new alpha version of qgis for android on android.qgis.org This release includes all the goodies that I got to implement lately including: – right click support through longClick – shape file support – gps – compass – android 4 support – partial hardware optimization for armV7a (most newish devices have it) – no debug symbols I m very happy with this release because it adresses and Read more…

QGIS on Android videos

So, finally preparing for the next conferences, I made some videos demonstrating the current super status of QGIS on android. here you go: In this video I use all currently available features of QGIS on android. Part of the video is accelerated. In this video I use all available location based tools (GPS, Compass) for QGIS on android. the video is accelerated 2x. This video shows the full install procedure to get QGIS running on Read more…

QGIS on android at FOSSGIS

This March 20st I’ll be presenting the status of QGIS on Android at FOSSGIS.DE. The conference will be held on 20-22 March 2012 at Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau-Rosslau and is the biggest German speaking conference about Open Source Geoinformatics. Registrations are open until March 16th here

QGIS gets Compass support

After implementing GPS support for QGIS on Android I’ve implemented a plugin that reads the internal compass readings and shows the value in a small dock widget. All theese new features are available in the master-alpha4 version and the nightly. Hope you enjoy