Alexander Borsuk
Alexander Borsuk
A switch on the map is very different to a switch in settings.
Arguments for removing recent track as a separate feature in settings: 1. When user navigates, a recent track can be displayed automatically in an unobtrusive way. An easy way to...
It would be better to focus on reducing the battery usage and avoid annoying users about turning off something they anyway know (from the sticky notification).
> Unless the Recent Path feature can have nearly zero effect on battery, a message will be needed. Can you please elaborate which problem this message solves on Android? There...
I propose to brainstorm how to seamlessly merge two features (recent track and active track recorder) into one, to make it simple for users, and for us. For example: -...
> since this kind of recorder will only be showing last x hours track on map, what if the user want to save track before this duration which have been...
An important moment about storing recorded tracks. In some cases, users may also add bookmarks not far from the current position, when the trip is recorded. It would be very...
> Theoretically, to have only one feature, the Track Recorder feature can do the functionality of Recent Path, the person would record, but not save the track; in this case...
Historically, due to excessive battery usage, any track recording required explicit activation and deactivation. From my and our users experience, the current implementation of the recent track works more or...
We can only learn from our users. There is an option to make a list of proposed names and check how community reacts to it.