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Trackbook - Movement recorder for Android

Version 0.1.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 displays your movements on a map. You can save your recorded tracks and share them with friends.

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

Install Trackbook

Do not install Trackbook. Trackbook does not do anythimg useful right now. See the Install Canary below? Wait until it flies.

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How to use Trackbook

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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"

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Permission "ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"

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Permission "ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"

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Permission "ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"

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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.