Sun Compass - New watch app for Apple Watch and Android Wear

Use the old boy scout method and turn your phone, tablet or smart watch into a sun compass. Just point the sun symbol to the sun and the compass rose points north. You can add a target angle to easily follow the direction you want.

Available for:

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch


Android phones, tablets and Wear Watches

Features:

• Drag the compass to turn it freely
• Touch the compass to make it jump to the 4 major directions
• Use a two finger drag to turn the target
• Share the sun compass image with your friends
• See whether its day or night
• The compass is not affected by magnetic anomalies

The Apple Watch App

By running Sun Compass on your Apple Watch you have the compass always on hand without taking out your phone. You can choose the direction of the compass rose by tapping. For a quick direction you can use the glance view.

The Wear App

By running Sun Compass on your Android Wear watch you have the compass always on hand without taking out your phone. You can choose the direction of the compass rose by tapping.

By setting Sun Compass as your watchface you have the compass always on hand when you activate your watch (without loosing the ability to read the time). Just flick your wrist.

Solved: Android Wear functionality not visible

Trying to publish my next Android Wear app Sun Compass I got the famous:

• Your app does not have Android Wear functionality that’s visible to the user

feedback from the Play Store review team.

I checked all the usual suspects like:

• Include all the permissions declared in the manifest file of the wearable app in the manifest file of the mobile app.
• Ensure that both the wearable and mobile APKs have the same package name and version number. 

But the app still was rejected with the same error message.

Finally I found the reason. I used two different version of the Google Play Store library in the mobile and the wear part of the app. Setting them both to the same (latest) version solved the problem.

Why? I can only guess that different library versions require different permissions. This way my mobile app didn't include all permissions of the wear app and failed to install on the device (without any error message).

Summary:

Make sure you use the exact same version of the Google Play Store library in both the mobile and the wear app. 

Compass Watch - My first app for Android Wear

Have a compass as your watch face on your Android Wear device. This allows a quick glance at the right direction by activating your watch while biking, hiking or any other indoor and outdoor activities.

The Watchface:
By setting Compass Watch as your watchface you have the compass always in view when you activate your watch without loosing the ability to read the time. When the watch is not active the compass stops and just shows the time and the last compass heading (in ambient mode).

The Wear App:
The Compass Watch app can run as a standalone compass app. In this mode the compass isn't obstructed by the time.

Wind - New app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Wp7 and the BB PlayBook

Do you want to go sailing, windsurfing, biking or just out of the door? This application shows the current local outdoor wind speed (in beaufort, mph and km/h) and direction, measured by a nearby weather station for which it uses your current location.

Features:

• the background color changes with the wind speed
• the direction of the wind is shown on a live compass
• The wind is automatically updated every hour
• The location is automatically updated when you move more than 5 miles/10km

wind.speedymarks.com

Welcome iPad

Right from the start you can get a few of my iPhone applications in a shiny new iPad version:

Thesaurus XL - Find synonyms for every word

Compass XL - Find out where to go

Checklists XL - Create and manage all sorts of checklists

Source Viewer XL - Check the HTML, CSS and Javascript of websites

Ruler XL - Measure the scale of small things

All Countries XL - Map all countries of the world

Country Quiz XL - Can you spot all foreign countries?

States XL - Maps all states in the USA

State Quiz XL - Can you spot all states in the USA?

Capital Quiz XL - Test your knowledge and name all U.S. state capitals

Please stay tuned for the rest...

New Project: My Position

Quickly see where and how high you are on earth. If you define a target you can see how far you still have to go and in which direction. It uses the a constant angle on a so called rhumb line or loxodrome, so it is not necessary to constantly adjust your bearing (as you would have to on the shortest path on a orthodrome)

This application is intended for a quick lookup without tracking your position in the background in order to save battery power.

myposition.speedymarks.com

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New in the App Store: My Position

Quickly see where and how high you are on earth. If you define a target you can see how far you still have to go and in which direction. It uses the a constant angle on a so called rhumb line or loxodrome, so it is not necessary to constantly adjust your bearing (as you would have to on the shortest path on a orthodrome).
This application is intended for a quick lookup without tracking your position in the background in order to save battery power. It works completely offline and can be safely used while roaming.

New in the iPhone App Store

Finally the first round of SpeedyMarks iPhone applications is available on the Apple App Store:

- Compass

- Workout

- Game Counter

- Amazon Bestsellers

You can find out about all my App Store applications and iPhone web applications by checking:

start.speedymarks.com

New iPhone App: Compass

This application adds the missing compass to the iPhone. You just have to see the sun and know the time to determine the north direction. Use it for all your outdoor activities whether it's hiking, biking or for a boy scout camp. This compass is not affected by magnetic anomalies.

compass.speedymarks.com

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