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

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 tracking on QGIS for android from Marco Bernasocchi on Vimeo.

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 first speech in Italian, although i felt more comfortable with English slides 😉 Here you can find the slides. Thanks a lot to Tim Sutton 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 rather hacky. Then I found this post by Tom Russo where he mentioned how he changed his build process to force non versioned libs. I 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. (mehr …)