Hi,
I'm trying Navigator Free, after trying various other Android car navigation apps.
A couple of thoughts that would improve Navigator (IMHO):
- More options in the Speed Warning Threshold... I find that 10% is just a bit low, and 20% is just a bit high. Any reason why this can't be an incrementing number box or similar?
- User-selectable directions-speech distances... I find that 2km, 1km, 500m, 200m, "turn now" is overkill and would like to turn off at least 2 of them.
- User-selectable warning sounds (e.g. from MP3 files)
- Volume settings for warning sounds and directions.
- An option to only give the Speed Camera warning if you're above its speed limit.
- I use my phone to play music via BT whilst driving. I have an app "Speed of Sound" to automatically adjust volume based on speed. How about incorporating that into Navigator?
- The default "Sound output channel" setting to "Use SCO protocol for BT audio" results in my music being silenced, then a short pause, then the warning sound (except these seem distorted?) or directions (missing the first word or so?) then the music resumes. It's much better if that setting is turned off. Ideally, the music volume would be turned down (but not off) when Navigator makes a sound.
- Notifications (and directions?) to my Pebble smart watch.
- When I drove to work, Navigator directed me to use a back street which would have involved 2 more turns (R,L,R instead of just R) than just following the main road, although that route might have been a few metres shorter. Turns (and especially right turns for me in a country that drives on the left) should be factored into finding the quickest route to avoid this.
- Can Navigator learn traffic speeds on specific pieces of road from my driving and therefore over time fine-tune it's quickest route?
- A couple of other navigation apps have the ability to report and see petrol prices (and traffic jams and so on).
- The auto-zoom zooms in a bit too close for my liking... can that be configurable?
A long list, I know, and some of them are a bit trivial. And some would be major redesigns. But just passing this along in case it helps you (and in the hope that I'll see some of these features).
Thanks for all your work with Navigator, and for sharing the Free version.
Frank