QGIS on Android gets right click support
So, finally I managed to add the right click support to QGIS on android, I made a video demonstrating the current super status of QGIS on android. here you go: This addition was the last show stopper bug.
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 Read more…
QGIS on android screenshots
In this post i’ll keep on adding screenshots of QGIS on android
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
QGIS on Android gets GPS support
Lately I’ve been working on adding native GPS support to QGIS on Android, here is a short video showing how it works. A big thanks goes to the municipality of Schoten in Belgium which sponsored the development. This functionality is included in the latest nightly builds as of yesterday. GPS Read more…
QGIS on ANDROID talk at the Università degli Studi di Urbino
Yesterday, thanks to Prof. Mauro De Donatis who invited me, I held a 2h talk at the Università degli Studi di Urbino about QGIS and QGIS on Android. The talk was attended by around 50 students and staff from Computer science, Geology and Ambient sciences. I liked finally holding my Read more…
Creating non-versioned shared libraries for android
While porting QGIS to android using necessitas I encountered the problem of versioned libs. Android does not support versioned libs and it is not going to. In the first vesions I used rpl -R -e libqgis_core.so.1.9.90 “libqgis_core.sox00x00x00x00x00x00x00” $APK_LIBS_DIR and similar hacks to remove the version from the libs. But it was Read more…
Sharing internet connection
Today, for some bizarre reasons only my android phone was connecting to a WiFi. So I decided to use it as a tethered modem. The problem was that my friend Bruno could not use the net either, so since networkmanager ad-hoc networks were not working and it is our day off climbing we decided to keep our fingers trained on the keyboard. (altro…)
GSoC 2011 final report
So, it is over, after 3 months working on QGIS for android as a Google Summer of code project it is now time to wrap up what I did and didn’t do. First of all a QGIS android app exists now and it has many features including: – reading/writing projects Read more…