Gps Icon vs Show Articles in Map
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Gps Icon
Before Kitkat, The GPS icon in the status bar reflected whether your device was still searching for satellites or already had acquired a fix. With Kitkat, this no longer was the case – but an XPosed module named GPSNotification fixed that. This module is no longer working with Lollipop – which is where Gps Icon comes into play. Thanks to this little app, you again can see the GPS status in your status bar.The developer of GPS Icon doesn’t want an app which needs less than 50kB to do its job inflated to 500kB or more just because of drawing in the „usual frameworks“ – so it sometimes takes a bit of playing around to have it working on as many Android versions as possible. Version 1.3.0 worked well for a long time – but no longer for Android 8 (Oreo). Attempts to get that working broke it for either Android 6, 7 or both – so after the experiments, we decided to keep 3 versions:v1.3.1: a special old version, actually created after v1.4.3, based on v1.3.0 and made working for Oreov1.4.2: version with new features but before „Oreo hacks“ (i.e. probably not working on Oreo)v1.4.6: version with new features which now hopefully works for all aforementioned platforms (but no longer with Android 10)Should there still be any issues, please report!
Show Articles in Map
Note: You must also install Location Map Viewer to display the results. This app adds the option Show Articles in Map to any app that can shown/send/share a geo location or geo-uri . This app hooks into the android system to intercept "view geo-uri". When getting a geo-uri it asks encyclopedia wikipedia (or travelguide wikivoyage or knowledgebase wikidata or photogallery wikimedia) and shows the results in Location Map Viewer (or in any other installed app that understands the format 'kmz'). Location Map Viewer shows a map with bubbles (or article-icons if enabled/available) for every wikipedia article found. If you click on a bubble you get a popup with a short article description and a button that links to the full article. Here are some f-droid apps that are compatible with Show Articles in Map navigation: OsmAnd, public transportation: Transportr or oeffi translate postal address to geo Acastus Photon Share your current position LocationShare or My Position Required Android Permissions: INTERNET: to download article data from wikipedia or wikivoyage Server .
| Feature | Gps Icon | Show Articles in Map |
|---|---|---|
| License | Unlicense | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | GitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityNavigation | ProductivityNavigation |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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