evmap,ev-map

Show list of supported charging cards in detail view

Widgets

Ideas:

Widget showing favorites (with current status?)
Widget showing closest stations

https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1329072&sid=63d0ba364bc8503d322311bfb9e2ae1e#p1329072

difference between type2 plug and outlet

Since the goingelectric API outputs "Type 2" for the plug and outlet, maybe it is better to put these two together. So for example:
1x Type 2 plug
1x Type 2 outlet
=> it should show 2x Type 2

And we could add a little note to let people know that there are also cables. Since New Motion doesn't make a difference either, it should be easier to get the status from there? Because right now these stations don't get live status.

save different sets of filters as profiles

Show charge point availability

This is available e.g. through newmotion and chargecloud (the latter with EVSEID).
https://app.chargecloud.de/emobility:ocpi/6336fe713f2eb7fa04b97ff6651b76f8/app/2.0/locations?evse=DE*KIE*E30005*002
https://my.newmotion.com/api/map/v2/locations/2469255

However, the GoingElectric API does not provide EVSEIDs
https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=54302

Add scale to map

https://github.com/pengrad/MapScaleView

Feature request : add calculator for EV related things

like charging cost or charge duration

Notifications for chargers

e.g. if there is a new fault report for one of your favorite chargers, or when a charger becomes available/unavailable

Would require a background task to regularly check for updates. In the former case, the background task should run always, but at low intervals (maybe once a day) to save battery and data. In the latter case, the background task should run at a higher frequency (maybe every 5-10 minutes), but only for a specified amount of time.

Save "filter enabled" state and preserve across app restart

Integration with chargeprice.app

Chargeprice.app is a nice website to check the prices of charging stations with different providers / charging cards.

As a first step, we have integrated a button which opens the Chargeprice.app site in a browser with the correct charging station selected. This required a small change on Chargeprice.app's side: chargeprice/chargeprice-client#14

In the future, it might be possible to add a more native integration through their API: https://github.com/hoenic07/chargeprice-api-docs

GoingElectric API: differentiate between "paid parking/charging" and "no data"

This is not separated in the GoingElectric API, "freeparking": false or "freecharging": false is also displayed when no data is available.

Make app available in F-Droid

see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7233

Link to navigate using ABRP

Similar to the integration with Chargeprice.app (#12), we could also add a button to plan a route to a selected charger using A Better Routeplanner (ABRP).

This also requires a change on ABRP's side, see here:
https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/topic/1694-direct-link-to-navigate-to-given-location/

Feature : Add charging timer

A user can start this timer in the app .
Because the app has no information of the car the user hast to enter the actual SoC in%

After user entered this info + charge speed from GE directory the app sends a push notification when SoC 80% and 100% is reached .

In the future this could be combined with real time data received via car API.

Make a Google Maps-free version of the App

It has been requested a few times to build a version of this app that uses OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps - which would then be fully open source and suitable for inclusion in F-Droid. It would also be able to run on Android devices without Google Play Services (e.g. custom ROMs).

In principle, I would like this to happen, but it causes a few problems:

OSM data are free, but hosting is not
- Freely available tile servers have strict usage policies, e.g. OSM themselves do not allow distributing apps that use their tile server. I haven't found a usage policy for Carto basemaps, which e.g. wo-ist-markt seems to be using.
- Commercial tile providers like Mapbox and MapTiler have free plans, but only up to a certain limit.
- GoingElectric.de is also hosting OSM tiles themselves. They seem to be available using the same API keys as the GE charging stations API, but this is not documented anywhere and therefore probably not intended to be used by external applications.
- We could host map tiles ourselves, but this is costly due to the high hardware requirements.
- Google Maps, on the other hand, is currently free for all Android Apps without any usage limits.
Google Maps provides some features which are not easily replacable with OSM data (satellite images, traffic data). These would then not be available in the app anymore.
Maps is not the only thing in the app which uses Google services. Place search ("geocoding") would also need to be replaced, and APIs for this cost money as well.
Additionally, we would need to replace Fused Location Provider API and Google Play In-App purchases, but that would not be very complicated.
I wouldn't want to completely replace Google Maps, but instead offer both Google Maps and OSM in parallel. But this would also difficult to maintain due to the completely different APIs of Google Maps and osmdroid. https://github.com/sharenowTech/AnyMaps looks a possible solution, but it seems to not be actively maintained anymore.

Because of all these issues, I will not actively work on this at the moment. If someone is interested, feel free to search solutions to these problems and start a PR.

Add splash screen

show the app logo while the app is starting (see e.g. Google Maps)

without artificially slowing down the start, of course

Add language chooser

to override system default language

AvailabilityDetector: reduce radius

Filter function

Filter by connector type
Filter by power
Filter by minimum number of connectors
Filter by compatible charging cards/apps
only show stations with free charging
only show stations with free parking
Exclude CPOs (e.g. show all charging stations except Ionity)

Add remaining plug type icons

remaining ones supported by GoingElectric and not EVMap:

Type 1
Type 3C
Swiss household plugs

remaining ones supported by OpenChargeMap and not EVMap:

CCS Type 1
Type 3A
Tesla North American plug (NACS)
...

Open coordinates in maps app when clicking on coordinates

try to improve clustering parameters

current state:

no clustering with zoom >= 13
clusterDistance 70

Feature request : In-app browser support

until now every time I click on a link a separated browser is opened .

Is this possible to add a in app browser ?

Import route from Google Maps?

Das Killer Feature für mich wäre wenn ich meine in Google Maps geplante Route importieren könnte und somit eine schnelle Visualisierung der Säulen entlang der Route hätte. Mit anklicken entlang der Route könnte man die Kilometer seit Start/bis Ziel darstellen für eine manuelle Ladeplanung.

https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1255223#p1255223