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

100k and no reviews? Well, first I was disappointed, but I was wrong. First, you must choose the correct settings as per your GPS receiver. Second, you have to activate the ”Developer options” on your Android device and enable mock location. Only after these 2 steps any app will receive the coordinates. The developer was very helpful.

I've been using this app on my Ulefone Power Armor 18t for a couple of months now. The worst thing is that it sometimes silently quits. I launch it again, it connects to my GPS (Qstarz BL-818GT) and there we go again. You may imagine how my tracklogs look. Today it happened three times. For whatever reason the battery setting "Unrestricted" does not stay. This issue has not ever happened with Bluetooth GPS or OSMTracker, those always kept running. Not happy about it. :-(

The app works and sends the location to the device from an external USB TOPGNSS GN803G receiver. However, the Mock Location Notification disappears after some time and then the location is immediately sourced from the internal GPS. At the same time the external receiver keeps working as well and I see it in GPS Connector, but the Mock Location is not sent to Android. If I go back to the app and switch between screens the notification appears again and the Mock Location works again. Do you have any idea how the Mock Location can remain stable and the notification does not disappear? I gave the app all permissions and turned off battery optimization. My device is Galaxy Note 10+, Android 11. This happens in Simulation mode too. Unlike GPS Connector, your PPM Commander keeps the Mock Location Notification stable and visible all the time in simulation mode. Thanks!

What’s new

+ Android 16-Baklava
+ Min.SDK=24 (Nougat)
+ new input-source (serial port)
+ bugfixes