v0.5.0 — solid lines back, and a focused map

Fixes the dotted lines from v0.4.0, and makes a selected route much easier to read.

The dotted lines

Routes that follow roads draw as solid lines again. v0.4.0 expressed "solid" as a dash pattern with a single length in it, which the map reads as alternating dash and gap — so every proper route came out dotted. Solid and dashed are now genuinely separate, so this cannot recur.

Services with no road data still draw dashed, as intended.

Selecting a bus now focuses the map on it

Tap a bus and everything that isn't part of its service fades to grey — other buses lose their numbers and arrows, and the stops fade too, so the route and its calling points are what you actually see.

Other buses on the same service keep their colours and now draw their own routes, each in the colour of its own circle. Tap one 6 and you see where all the 6s are going.

The fading follows the route rather than the panel, so it stays while you look at a stop on that route, and doesn't happen when you tap a stop on the open map.

Stops appear sooner

Bus stops now show one zoom level further out than before. They shrink as you zoom out so that three hundred of them read as texture rather than clutter.

Departure boards

Live departures can be opened now. Tapping a departure with a real-time estimate did nothing at all before — bustimes links those differently from timetabled ones, and the app only understood the timetabled kind. At a busy stop that meant every row was dead.

Installing

Download bustimes-0.5.0.apk and open it on your phone. It installs over v0.4.0 without losing anything — same signing key, higher version code, upgrade path tested.

Android 8.0 (API 26) or later.

sha256  97567d9369df13f2f68b234b29b50b3952cc93d79b0eb4ea2bdb2919864fe1da

Still not here

Favourite stops and routes, and search. Both deliberate — this is a status-check app, so favourites is the intended next step.

Data

Everything comes from bustimes.org. Unofficial and not affiliated with it. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.