Maps are wonderful, giving you a view of your effort, allowing you to put a landmark of your run somewhere. And since day 1, 321run added maps.
But as we used the old SDK in 1.2, the maps were a bit static. There’s nothing wrong about static maps: they’re light, they’re easily cacheable. They’re a bit small.
But interactive maps are nicer, cooler, and definitely have a wow effect. I wanted to take advantage of that wow effect for the user, for the interest of the app, and make it something that would last.
So I decided to use to both static and interactive maps. Interactive maps are cool to find your way, where you are, so I added an instant map in the record screen that allows you to easily find where you are, what you’ve done and were you’re heading. Interactive maps are also cool to look in details, so you have access to the same interactive map in the detail view of your run.
But you want to quickly see where you were, and to do it quick. So we still have static maps, in the same detail view:
You can see we did it as well as we thought it had to be done. To make it clear that it’s a button to access the interactive map, we made the corners round (that’s a lot of code, you know?).
Well, that’s it for today. Stay tuned or contact me at cyril @ ecomposite.fr if you want to beta test the 2.0.
Haven’t had the opportunity to try this app much yet (only 1 run for the moment) due to the excessive amount of snow in France at the moment. 2.0 sounds great, and hope the review will go ok. Thanks for this great program: simple, fun, and does the job.
I have only 1 issue: in the programs (special coaching), the details of each program cannot be read in their entirety… Am I doing something wrong?