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Your home screen, your order
Arrange the field app home screen the way your crew works, get every planned trail offline without visiting it first, and keep a recorded line even when the upload fails.
Shipped the week of August 17.
A field app is used by somebody standing up, holding a phone in one hand, half a mile from a signal. This week went almost entirely into that — what the home screen shows, what works with no connection, and what happens to your work when the phone decides it has had enough.
Arrange your own home screen
Every crew opens the app for a different reason. A club opens it to check what needs doing; a builder opens it to keep recording a line they started yesterday. One fixed home screen was never going to suit both.
Customize home lets you decide. Each thing on the home screen is either a section — a full-width block with detail in it — or a tile in the quick-actions grid, and you choose which, and in what order. Turn off what your team never uses. There is a planned-trails rail for anybody doing planning work, and a maintenance rail for anybody who is not.
Your arrangement is yours, not the organization's. Two people on the same team can have completely different home screens.
Offline that holds up
Three changes, all aimed at the same thing — the app should never be the reason a day's work is gone.
Every planned trail is available offline on its own. You no longer have to have visited a trail's screen while you had signal for it to be there when you do not.
A recorded line stays yours until it lands. It sits on the phone until the upload is confirmed, and goes up the moment there is signal — so a walk you finish in a valley is safe on the way out.
Save GPX, from the sync panel. If something is stuck in the queue and you want it off the phone right now, you can write it out as a file and put it somewhere safe. A sync problem should end in a file, never in a loss.
Long recordings also stay smooth. The work the app does per GPS fix no longer grows with the length of the line, so hour six feels like hour one.
Also this week
A Business names switch in the map layers panel — turn shop and restaurant labels off when they are cluttering the ground you care about.
The 3-D view got a sky, which sounds cosmetic and is the difference between a tilted map reading as terrain and reading as a glitch.
Sliders look like sliders and say what number they are on. Several controls in the app were adjustable and did not look it.
Pages load lighter. We cut what every screen carries before it can draw anything, which is most noticeable on a phone at the edge of a signal.