Technical features demonstrated by Map Explorer - mapocosm/Map-Explorer-Open GitHub Wiki

The following are aspects of the Map Explorer Open project that may prove useful to many mobile app projects:

  • Google Maps object with routes, points of interest, and formatted descriptions
  • Javascript modular CommonJS design, memory management, and style sheets
  • cross-platform UI with title bar, menu pulldown, and various dialogs
  • http file download queueing and management
  • query to REST web services and JSON response handling
  • XML file parsing
  • Android intent filters and invoking external apps
  • integrated web browser and image viewer objects
  • communication between web objects and javascript program
  • wide range of string handling, checksums, html decoding, ...
  • application setting parameters and persistence
  • location-based services
  • web searching and formatting html results