Loadstone may be developed for Android at some point but I make no promises.
I was recently given an Android-based tablet so I can at least play with
Android now. This would be a large project though since it'll require a
complete rewrite of the Loadstone code.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Simon Dowling wrote:
hi shawn, any chance it will be developed for android? I know you said
it would never be in the passed just wondering if you have had a
change of heart? cheers
simon
On 10/01/2018, Shawn Kirkpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
I am the original developer for the Symbian version of Loadstone, currently
developing the version for iOS.
You are correct about the certificates, all the systems that supported these
are dead. This was the problem we ran in to that prevented any further
releases. Now, if I remember correctly there is a way to generate a
self-signed certificate that you could use to run the program on your own
phone. I haven't looked at any of this in about 5 years so I forget exactly
how this worked. The other option is to jail break your phone, this would
allow you to run unsigned programs on it.
There may be an easier solution to your problem though. Loadstone should
work with any receiver that sends out standard nmea data. This should be
almost all bluetooth receivers as far as I know. The exception to this may
be receivers that are marketed specifically as being compatable with the
iPhone, in that case they may use a different protocol and may not work with
anything else. It's also possible that the receiver is set to send out some
other kind of protocol and it may be possible to make it send nmea. You'd
have to read the specifications for your receiver to know what it's doing.
You'll need to know this anyway in order to fix Loadstone if it turns out
the receiver does send nmea but in a way Loadstone doesn't understand. Maybe
it's easier to just get another receiver that works?
The Loadstone source should be available on the website in the Loadstone
legacy site section. This is now an external site that I don't control so it
may have changed. If the source isn't available there then let me know and I
can send you a copy, I should have it around here somewhere.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Aura Kelloniemi wrote:
Hello
This list seems to be taken over by the non-free Loadstone application,
but I
hope there is still somebody who can guide me.
I have two questions regarding the old Symbian Loadstone application. I
wish
somebody could answer them or direct me to someone else who could help -
most
likely an old developer.
Question 1: I want to add support for a particular BT GPS receiver to
Loadstone. This receiver is incompatible for some reason, which is still
unknown to me. I am unable to install my own versions of Loadstone,
because I
can't get my hands on a developer certificate needed to sign the
installation
package. All sites that once provided the certificates are now dead. Did
Loadstone have a certificate for itself that I possibly could use. It does
not
matter if the certificate has expired - I can always tinker with the date
of
my phone. If I can't find a certificate, my project will fail and I need
to
find another platform where my receiver is usable.
Question 2:
Is Loadstone's SVN repository available somewhere nowadays or does anyone
have
a copy of it?
Thank you for any help that you may be able to provide.
--
Aura
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