Moving from WebOS to Android 4.x

I recently got a new smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S3). Of course I wanted to continue using Navit. Navit is available on Google Play Store, but I was severely disappointed by the initial setup.

- The layout just sucks. There is no current speed, no speed limit, no street names, nothing.
- There is no good documentation on how to customize navit.xml - in particular, the location of navit.xml is confusing
- Speech output sucks - with the Samsung TTS engine as well as with the Google TTS engine. Some street names are not spoken at all or wrong.
- The menu structure is confusing and difficult to use.

So I tried to modify the navit.xml. Documentation talks about navit.xml in the root directory of the SDcard. This is WRONG. navit.xml needs to be placed here (seen from Windows 7): Computer\GT-I9300\Phone\navit\navit.xml The Model name may of course be different depending on your phone model. This location is NOT on the SDcard but in the phone memory.

I customized a navit.xml that I found on the web (can't remember the location). It now has readable fonts and all the information that we have on WebOS.

So the attached navit.xml is for the Samsung Galaxy S3 and probably for other phones with 1280x720 pixels.
I also attached a navit.xml for 480x320 (for example Samsung Galaxy Young, with the mapfile being located on the SDcard, see the maps section in the xml file).

Extract the appropriate xml file from the zip archive and rename it to navit.xml before copying it on your phone (see above for the right location).

Question: Can we get the speech dispatcher from WebOS ported to Android?

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Last edited by hugo.s; 07/23/2013 at 07:25 AM.

Source: http://forums.webosnation.com/navit/325588-moving-webos-android-4-x.html

Mel B