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Trackbook - Movement Recorder for Android

Version 0.9.x ("The Great Gig in the Sky")

Trackbook is a bare bones app for recording your movements. Trackbook is great for hiking, vacation or workout. Once started it traces your movements on a map. The map data is provided by OpenStreetMap (OSM).

Trackbook is free software. It is published under the MIT open source license. Trackbook uses osmdroid to display the map, which is also free software published under the Apache License. Want to help? Please check out the notes in CONTRIBUTE.md first.

Install Trackbook

Version 0.9 is the first release of Trackbook. It is not completely finished yet, but you can install it. Watch the install canary... It finally flies(*). You install it via Google Play and F-Droid - or you can go and grab the latest APK on GitHub.

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How to use Trackbook

Start recording movements

Press the big blue button to start recording your movements. Trackbook will continuously drop markers onto the map.

Stop recording movements

To stop your recording press the big blue button again or use the stop button in the Trackbook's notification. You can look at the recorded movements on the map afterwards.

Distance and duration

Peek into Trackbook's notification to see the distance and duration of your current recording.

Clear the map

You can clear the map by either long-pressing the big blue button or dismissing the notification.

Which Permissions does Trackbook need?

Permission "INTERNET"

Trackbook needs to download map data from Open Street Map servers and therefore needs access to the internet.

Permission "ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" and "ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"

Trackbook uses osmdroid to draw its main map. osmdroid needs to know the current state of your device’s connectivity - see Prerequisites. I am not sure why though. On the other hand: These permissions are not harmful in any way.

Permission "ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" and "ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"

Trackbook needs accurate GPS location data to be able to record your movements. If the GPS data is not available or not accurate enough Trackbook uses location data from cell tower and WiFi triangulation.

Permission "WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"

Trackbook uses osmdroid, which caches map tiles on Android's external storage. You can find the map cache in the osmdroid folder on the top level of the user-facing file system.

Developement screenshots