UsbGPS4DHoneycomb_MR1 beta1 (2013-03-09): recommended for Android version greater or equal than Honeycomb MR1 (Android SDK version 12)

UsbGPS4Droid alpha5 (2012-08-26)

Change command used to define connection speed (see gitub issue #1 comment #2 )
Bug fix (see gitub issue #2: Bluetooth error messages )
Disable SIRF options in settings since they are not working (actually) in UsbGPS

UsbGPS4Droid alpha4 (2012-03-24)

Add an option in order to change the connection speed. This requires a rooted device with busybox and superuser privileges.
Bug fix (Ticket #9: Handle NMEA timestamps without fractional seconds ) (thanks to Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Update copyright informations

UsbGPS4Droid alpha3 (2011-10-24)

Quick and dirty adapted version of BlueGPS4droid in order to read NMEA data from a file/device.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.2 (2011-05-14)

Add an option to force auto-activation of the chosen location provider (useful when the device defines a GPS provider but doesn’t provide the preferences used to enable/disable it).
Update copyright infos.
Decrease the alleged power consumption of the bluetooth GPS (so now bluetooth GPS should consume less power than internal GPS).
Change default retries number before auto-closing BlueGPS4Droid.
Bug fix (Ticket #5: BlueGPS loops forever when SIRF is enabled but connection cannot be established ).
Bug fixed (Ticket #6: Cannot add mock provider if it exists already ).
Closing of bluetooth connection improvements.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.1 (2011-01-20)

Add Spanish translation (thanks to Colegota – XDA-Developers )
Change launcher and notification icons. The new icons are inspired from XlAfbk’s proposition.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2.0 (2010-12-10)

Add SiRF configuration management (NMEA sentences – SBAS – Static Navigation)
Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider is enabled automatically
Add an about window that gives the version of application, licensing information and where the sources may be downloaded.

BlueGps4Droid 1.2 alpha (2010-10-25)

BlueGps4Droid 1.1.2 (2010-11-04)

Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider will be enabled automatically

BlueGps4Droid 1.1.1 (2010-09-29)

Bug fix (Ticket #4: Connection service is not properly closed https://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/tickets/4/).
Add notifications when the connection with the GPS fails and when the connection service is closed because of two many connection retry.
Add settings to choose the number of connection retries before exiting.

BlueGps4Droid 1.1 (2010-09-26) – does not work properly because of bug #4. Use either version 1.0 or 1.1.1 !

Reconnect automatically when the connection with the GPS is lost (5 attempts in 5 minutes)
Replace Android default internal GPS or use a new location provider
Send status notifications when GPS loses fix or is disconnected.

BlueGps4Droid 1.0.1 (2010-10-25)

Add verifications: if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled, the service is not started.
Add alert messages to explain why the service cannot be started if bluetooth or mock locations are not enabled
If device doesn’t have an internal GPS, the bluetooth GPS provider will be enabled automatically

BlueGps4Droid 1.0 (2010-09-12)

Connect to bluetooth GPS (NMEA) and replace the internal GPS of an Android device.
Record GPS tracks in NMEA files
Compatible with Android version 2.0 and above
English and French translations

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