hamza417/positional

An elegant and colorful location information app for Android with Compass, Clock, Level, Sun, Moon, Trail Marker and many other features.

What's This ?

Positional is a location based app that utilizes the device's GPS and fetches various details of the current latitude and longitude data like Altitude, Speed, Address and similar other information and show it in easily understandable format to the user. Alongside this main functionality of being a location app, Positional also provides a separate panel for Compass and Clock, and they serve their own purpose as their name suggests.

Compass provides info related to direction and Clock fetches the time related information based on the current location and time zone and also sun's information like Sunset, Sunrise, Twilight and a good deal of other info.

On top of all the core functionality Positional is a highly polished app and provides another layer of flexibility to customize the app as per liking including skins for Clock and Compass faces, colors, and many other features that should have been there.

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Screenshots

Splash Screens

Pin style is subject to user preferences.

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Time Panel

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Compass Panel

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Map Panel

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Trail Panel

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Level and Preferences Panel

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Features

• Easy to use
  
• Smooth, with fluid animations
  
• Minimal UI
  
• Many Accent Colors
  
• Customizable with various options to choose from
  
• Magnetic Compass
  
• Compass Sensor Speed
  
• Compass physics properties
  
• Compass manual rotation
• Compass bloom
• Gimbal lock
• Minimal Map (with and without labels)
  
• Google Maps Support
  
• Dark mode for maps
  
• High contrast map
  
• Satellite map
  
• Many pin styles for the whole app
  
• Media keys support for map
  
• Target location mode
• Displacement information
• GPS information
  
• Speedometer
  
• Altitude
  
• Distance
  
• Displacement
  
• Address of the current location
  
• UTM, MGRS coordinate formatting
  
• DMS coordinates support
  
• Movement direction
  
• Clock
  
• Clock motion types (both linear and inertia induced motion)
  
• Clock needle styles
  
• Custom timezone support
  
• UTC and Local Time references
  
• Sun Position/Location
  
• Sun Azimuth
  
• Sun Distance and Sun Altitude
  
• Sunset and Sunrise time
  
• Astronomical, Nautical, Civil twilight
  
• Moon Position/Location
  
• Moonrise and Moonset time
  
• Moon Altitude
  
• Moon Phases
  
• Moon Angle and Fraction
  
• Moon states (Waning and Waxing)
  
• Upcoming moon dates i.e. New Moon, Full Moon, Third and First Quarter
  
• Moon Illumination
  
• Dark Mode
  
• Level
  
• Custom location mode for manually fetching information of any part of the world
  
• Sun time widgets
• Sun time widget with splash arts
• Clock widget
• Moon phase widget
• Completely Ad-Free

Translation

You can also contribute into translating the app in your native language on Crowdin.

License

Positional Copyright © 2023 - Hamza Rizwan

Positional is released as open source software under the GPL v3 license, see the LICENSE file in the project root for the full license text.

positional's Issues

Location pin stutters when its animation switches in GPS panel

Positional/app/src/main/java/app/simple/positional/ui/GPS.kt

Lines 259 to 280 in 8e07262

	private val locationPinAnimation: Runnable = object : Runnable {
	override fun run() {
	if (context == null) return
	if (getLocationStatus()) {
	if (gpsEnabledAnimationCount != 0) {
	[e-mail](AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(requireContext(), R.anim.gps_enabled))
	gpsEnabledAnimationCount = 0
	gpsDisabledAnimationCount = 1
	} else {
	[e-mail](AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(requireContext(), R.anim.location_pin_animation))
	}
	} else {
	if (gpsDisabledAnimationCount != 0) {
	[e-mail](AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(requireContext(), R.anim.gps_disabled))
	gpsDisabledAnimationCount = 0
	gpsEnabledAnimationCount = 1
	}
	}
	handler.postDelayed(this, 3000)
	}
	}

Compass' azimuth value error by 180 degrees when device' screen is facing down

I'd have purchased full version if there was a high contrast mode, black background with bright roads, similar to the night mode but roads not just mediumdark grey. Intention would be to display current location and surroundings as a motorbike map, benefiting from peripheral vision, therefore the high contrast mode. As is, I find the contrast not high enough.

Pixelation in map vector drawable when the map is scaled in GPS panel

Add map zoom in-out using volume buttons

Pressing back button closes the app instead of closing the bottom sheet panel when it is expanded

Rotating compass manually causes value to cross 360 degrees

Make app available in F-Droid or as apk file

Hello!

It would be great if users could install this app from sources other than the Google play store. Maybe by making it available in F-Droid or at least by adding the app as an apk file when a release is made.

App starts to lag a lot when the Location is turned off

Workaround for the problem of map refreshing in 10 seconds

Toolbar menu buttons are not clickable

The menu and timezone buttons are not clickable in some devices.

• Huawei P20 Pro (CLT-L29)

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Compass is disappearing in some phones

After the implementation of Physical Properties in Compass panel compass is disappearing in some phones for currently unknown reasons as shown in the screenshots.

• Known Affected Devices

  • Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G

• Reason -> N/A