v0.6.0 — favourite stops

Favourite stops.

Starring a stop

Open a stop and tap the star in its panel. The same star removes it again — there is no separate list to manage.

Getting back to it

A star button appears above the locate button once you have a favourite. Tapping it opens a menu of your stops; tapping one jumps the map there and opens its departures.

The menu puts your nearest stop closest to the button, so the stop you are most likely checking takes the least thumb movement. The order is worked out when the menu opens and then left alone, so nothing shifts while you are reaching for it. With location turned off it falls back to the order you added them.

The button only exists once you have starred something, so nothing changes until you use the feature.

Small print

Favourites are stored on the device and are never sent anywhere. They keep their own copy of each stop's name and position, so the menu works with no signal.

The compass now sits one place further up the stack, above the star button, and hides while the menu is open. A control that comes and goes shouldn't shove the ones that are always there.

Not favourite routes

Only stops, for now. A favourite stop has an obvious thing to show — the next few departures — whereas a favourite route's useful form is the map, which tapping any bus already gives you: its route, its siblings and everything else greyed out.

Installing

Download bustimes-0.6.0.apk and open it on your phone. It installs over v0.5.0 without losing anything — same signing key, higher version code, upgrade path tested.

Android 8.0 (API 26) or later.

sha256  89d65bd91245f871b2e26d758c85e31df3d5b58947072a19498058f24bc34f4f

Still not here

Search. Deliberate — this is a status-check app, and favourites was the answer to "get me to my stop quickly".

Data

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