Updated my Android app Trackometer: comment

Trackometer is an Android phone app that was one of the first AIR-made android apps in the Google Market in Oct 2010. Here is the link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.runningmap.Trackometer

At the time I thought it was apprporiate to compile the app without AIR as a "captive runtime." For the years since there have only been a few people who complained about having to download AIR. But even now I think it is odd when someone is forced to download the AIR app when they try to run my app. (with 11,000 downloads, this app caused a lot of AIR app downloads I'm sure). So I finally decided to replace the app with a version that has AIR compiled into it (plus a few other small changes and fixes). The size result:

previous version: 500k

new version: 9mb

Oh well. That seems to be ok with app sizes these days.

I had not touched the app in a couple years and I was impressed with how opening up the project in FB4.7 and upgrading from AIR 3.1 SDK  to 3.6 caused only a small amount of required changes.

A funny thing with how the layout looks is that I simulated all the GUI as native apps on Froyo looked ... which has now changed on Android. I didn't change it.

- Randy Troppmann