App needs to run in background about gpslogger

[GrazianoCapelli]

Hi @orbiterFan,
first of all thanks for your feedback coming from a real (and very cool) use case.

We already had other feedback about the problem with the camera, specially from Samsung users.
Unfortunately we cannot solve the issue because it is not related to our app: the problem is that Android allows your camera app to stop other background process to free up RAM. We can do nothing to avoid it from inside the app.

Luckily the Play Store has plenty of camera apps (some of them are free, ad-free and very good): we can only suggest, if possible, to switch to another app to take photos and videos. As alternative you could carry an old phone to log the tracks and use the new one to take photos.

We apologize for not being helpful.
Anyway, best wishes for your journey from the whole BasicAirData community!

[GrazianoCapelli]

I am canoeing 5 Rivers, and the other thing that would be useful is more intervals, like 5 second and 10 second, that is useful for the waterways. My average speed is 1.5km/h. Yeah I know. Very slow.

If you want to log a point every 10 seconds, you should leave the GPS update interval to 1 second (to keep a good GPS accuracy) and set an interval filter of 10 seconds.

As alternative, if you would for example to record a point every 5 meters, you can set a Distance Filter of 5 meters.

[orbiterFan]

Thanks for the help. I will try the filter. I have also switched to OpenCamera on fdroid.

[GrazianoCapelli]

@orbiterFan - I close this issue, to keep our issue tracker clean.
Feel free to comment or re-open the issue in case of need.

If possible, We would be glad to know if the problem is still present also using OpenCamera.