redbus 1.0.17

In celebration of passing 1000 downloads, I've just released a new version with a lot of work on the map GUI. :)

Edinburgh Bus Millenium Edition!

Woohoo! We've just hit 1000 downloads! I wonder if this caused the market unavailability problem? Theoretically, at 1000 downloads, Google might switch you to a different set of servers, and it takes…

Edinburgh Bus Tracker app has vanished!!

I've just noticed the Edinburgh Bus Tracker has vanished from the Android market ; I've had independent confirmations from multiple people. I've not had any contact from Google or anyone, so I can onl…

Time to start on USB host again hopefully!

I see there's been a 2.1 ROM for the Hero relased over at villainrom. What is even more interesting is that they're using a 2.6.29 kernel source released by someone called "Ben22". Git tree here. So..…

redbus 1.0.9

Another hour's development this morning, and I now have a bus stop proximity alarm! (i.e. when you're physically within a radius of a stop). I'm not sure how well this is going to work using the Locat…

Bus competition

Cool, I see we now have a competitor on the edinburgh bus tracking scene :)

Android userspace development and USB summary

I was asked for a summary of my USB patches: basically they work on the HTC Hero under 2.6.27/Android1.5 with a few small issues, and should be portable to other 1.5 kernels without too much hassle. A…

Today's pic - view from grassmere

view from grassmere Originally uploaded by adq\uk Apologies if this one is screwed up; its hard seeing if the colours are ok in the sun beside this swimming pool ;-P