Hey Everyone,

I’ve been getting reports of gradle build problems with the Android project. The file in github is the most up to date and should be used now:

https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker/blob/master/phoneClients/android/GpsTracker/build.gradle

Please note there are two gradle.build files, you need the one in the GpsTracker directory.

Please let me know if you encounter any other problems.

Hey everyone, I want to apologize about the recent outages on websmithing.com. I was installing an ssl certificate so that I could serve https and installing it was a bit of a challenge.

Developers please note that this website is now using https and all test urls need to be changed on the phone or they won’t work.

https://www.websmithing.com/gpstracker/updatelocation.php

Search for this string in the phone source code.

Nick

I was very happy to learn that GpsTracker was one of the top 9 downloaded projects on Sourceforge and was nominated for “Project of the Month”.

If you have checked out the project and like it, would you please log into Sourceforge and vote for GpsTracker:

http://sourceforge.net/p/potm/discussion/vote/thread/7d522915/

VOTE: gpsmapper

voting ends February 2, 2014

Thank you very much!
Nick

First off, I’m sorry that you lost your cell phone. That is a bummer. At this point, I’m sure you have retraced your steps and have tried calling your cell phone to see if someone kind hears it and picks it up. You can call your cell phone from your computer using Google voice if you do not have access to another phone:

https://www.google.com/voice

There are 2 parts to the gps tracker application. The server and the clients. The server part needs to be installed on a public web server. It can be installed on a local machine and clients can be tested over wifi so strictly speaking, you do not need a public facing web server but for our purposes, we will assume you have one. There are 2 different servers, one is for asp.net and sql server and the other one is for php and mysql. You do not need to install both. How do you choose which one to use?

I’m happy to report that version 3 of GpsTracker has shipped. This is a major change and the application now supports tracking of android, ios, windows phone and java me/j2me cell phones using google maps. What the application does is track cell phones periodically using gps, wifi and/or cell towers. It allows you to track a phone every minute or every 5 minutes or whatever you want and display it on a google map. You can view the tracking in real time or view previously saved routes.