MyTracks

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MyTracks
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MyTracks 2.0 Logo
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Original author(s) Google
Developer(s) Google
Initial release 12 February 2009 (2009-02-12)[1]
Last release 2.0.11[2] / 21 January 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-21)[3]
Preview release 2.0.2.rc6
Written in Java, XML (content language)
Operating system Android 1.5+
Size Varies with device[2]
License Apache License, Version 2.0
Website www.google.com/mobile/mytracks/

MyTracks is a GPS tracking application that runs on Android. The application uses a device's GPS to collect data, allowing real-time review of path, speed, distance, and elevation. Later, this data can be saved to Google Maps, Google Fusion Tables, or Google Docs and shared with Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. The application also allows a user to record annotations along the path, hear periodic voice announcements of progress, and sync with select third-party bio-metric sensors.

Google has announced that as of the 1st May 2016, MyTracks will be deprecated and no longer available in the Google Play Store,..[2][4] . Despite this announcement, the app is still active and available for downloading and installing in playstore.[5] The app itself continues to work and is still available to sideload via APK repositories.

An in-app popup alerted users that MyTracks would stop working on April 30, 2016;[6] Google has confirmed[7] they will be investing in "other, more wide-reaching, mapping projects".

Features

History

The application made its debut on February 12, 2009 under a closed license.[1] A year later on March 28, 2010, Google announced the release of the source code and open-sourcing of the application, stating "The collective intelligence of the development community will create a more powerful, more intuitive, more useful, and more robust My Tracks."[8] The first major re-haul of the application came on July 13, 2012 when Google released version 2.0 of the application. Version 2.0 introduced a new interface, support for playing back data in Google Earth for Android (although this feature is broken since Google Earth v8[9]), improved charts, and additional statistics.[10] In 2014 the developers announced on the google code project site that My Tracks is no longer developed in the open and that the source will be removed on 01/01/2015.[11] The last open source version was 2.0.5 released in August 2013.[12]

Reception

As of September 2013, the Google Play Store lists the application as being installed on 10,000,000 – 50,000,000 devices, with an overall rating of 4.4/5 from over 80,000 reviews.[2] CNET gave the application 4/5 stars, praising its "Chart, Statistics, and satellite playback" and ability to pause recordings but criticized it for an "unattractive interface" and lack of "athletic-specific features".[13] PCWorld awarded MyTracks with a perfect 5/5 stars, stating "this app is just about perfect. It is intuitive to use and very stable." However, PCWorld did mention they would like to see a few features added.[14]

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