Example mobile app to demonstrate GPS, REST Web service as a data source for a mobile app, how to save and email a data file from a mobile app, and device-dependent workflows.
This mobile app demonstrates a battery-saving approach to GPS tracking by recording coordinates on-demand instead of by continuous tracking. The app improves the notoriously inaccurate GPS elevation value via a call to the USGS Elevation REST Web service to look up the accurate value.
You can download the free-to-use MobileTogether Designer at http://www.altova.com/download/mobiletogether-designer.html
Open the file geolocation-demo-app.mtd in the MobileTogether Designer to examine how it was built and execute it in the Designer Simulation feature.
Download the MobileTogether Mobile App for your device at the app store and connect to the MobileTogether Demo Server to run more demo apps.
The Driving Simulation XML file lets you simulate a moving mobile device in the MobileTogether Designer.
Altova MobileTogether is a cross-platform mobile development framework for building data-centric apps. MobileTogether allows you to build one solution for all platforms -- in record time -- and deliver it to end users on their devices of choice.
Changes in this version:
- Updated to demonstrate new features
- The REST call is enhanced with Try/Catch error handling for server connection errors
- If the elevation is not available from USGS, then the default device elevation is used, when available
- Inconsistency in handling GPX namespace is corrected
- A new map option draws the default route between the current and previous captured locations -- this is not necessarily the route the user traveled