GPS Connector

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GPS Connector App

About this app

GPS Connector App

Connect any high-precision external GPS antenna by Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth Low-Energy, USB or TCP-IP to your smartphone and mock the current location from the external GPS to the Android system.
Any other app which read the location data from Android receive the mocked position from your external device.
The app is useful if you don't have an internal GPS on your phone/tablet or you want to use high-precision GNSS devices for better location accuracy.

Features

» Speedometer view (time, speed, etc.)
» Current location as WGS84 coordinate
» GNSS NMEA status view (satellites, GPS-quality, accuracy, etc.)
» Show satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, BEIDOU, etc.)
» Mocking: use the location of external GPS antenna on Android
» Auto-start of the app on device reboot
» Connect device by Bluetooth Classic, LE, USB oder TCP-IP
» Connect device by USB - supported vendors:
 » u-blox (e.g. ZED-F9P)
 » Mediatek
 » FTDI
 » Silicon Labs
 » Prolific
 » ST Microelectronics

PRO Features

» BLE connection to Qstarz 818-GT
» BLE connection to RaceBox Mini BLE
» Connection to TCP-IP data server
» Analysis of binary NMEA messages

Successfully tested GNSS modules

 » u-blox (Neo-7, M8Neo, ZED-F9P)
 » Qstarz BT-Q818XT (Mediatek, MTKII)
 » Silicon Labs CP210x
 » Prolific PL2303
 » GlobalSat ND-105C (MTK Chipset)

Please check the GPS-Connector forum for further informations:

http://gps-connector-forum.pilablu.de

Ratings and reviews

Lack of opportunity to purchase a lifetime license. And instead of this, only subscriptions for a certain time, that is what I don't want for sure. Not going to pay forever for the every tiny service on the Earth. Nowdays nearly everybody try to charge people in this way. So my choice lifetime license, or wait for a crack. Reply on reply: Looking forward for the lifetime license. Of couse not for a few euros. But I hope not as much as my GPS receiver.

Using this, I have managed to link my non-gps Honor X9 Android Tablet to the Garmin Glo to allow use of Offline Google Maps. Critical steps were: 1) Select "Set Mock Location" in the app. 2) Enable "Developer" options in Android (If not visible, go to settings, find "About phone" or "About Tablet", and click "Build number" 7 times). You can select GPS connector in "Mock Location App".

Works fine when mock location is turned on in the phone's "Developer options" settings. Otherwise the data from the GPS receiver is not transmitted to other apps eg Race Chrono (or Google Maps). Some notes in the app on this requirement would be handy for new users. Also the app seems to be very power hungry even when not providing mock location data. Good thing: The Developer responded to my initial review and advised about the "Developer option" requirement.

What's new

+ Adaptive launcher icon
+ Firebase Crashlytics
+ Bugfixing