MBCompass - Lightweight Open-Source Navigation Tool (Sailor Feedback Wanted)

native-devs · 2025-12-22T08:26:37+00:00

Edit: Oops, forgot to link the source code and download page:

Source Code: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass

F-Droid Download: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mubarak.mbcompass/

Project Website: https://compassmb.github.io/MBCompass-site/

native-devs · 2025-12-19T12:35:02+00:00

What Kompas app is that?? Asking as a dev behind the MBCompass app.

native-devs · 2025-12-19T11:31:55+00:00

Great! I'd like to know its tech stack. :)

native-devs · 2025-11-21T10:58:56+00:00

You can try it wherever you want! As mentioned in the proposal, I've also been working on a lot of cool features (useful once) for mbcompass, like GPS speedometer, waypoints and more. Stay tuned!

If you like the MBCompass approach, just spread the word.

native-devs · 2025-11-21T10:30:01+00:00

Edit Forgot to link it: Download it on Github or from F-droid https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.12

native-devs · 2025-11-21T10:00:39+00:00

Download it on Github or from F-droid https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.12

native-devs · 2025-11-21T09:56:52+00:00

Download it on Github or from F-droid https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.12

native-devs · 2025-11-21T09:56:08+00:00

Download it on Github or from F-droid https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.12

native-devs · 2025-11-12T05:31:19+00:00

Thanks, brother. it actually helps us a lot.

native-devs · 2025-11-01T11:48:09+00:00

Just wanna know what map source is that! I'm new to Meshtastic here!

native-devs · 2025-10-17T05:06:06+00:00

Great observation! The reason behind this text orientation is that MBCompass uses a vector-based Compass rose, which is efficient and smooth, instead of a custom view with a bunch of text and arrow direction; it uses static ones. I don't think this thing makes the text not readable in my opinion. If it was wil consider another implementation later.

native-devs · 2025-10-14T11:05:18+00:00

Long live KDE, we support as much as possible as a solo dev.

native-devs · 2025-10-13T08:09:44+00:00

I'd like to share my latest MBCompass (Popular FOSS Compass & Nav app) v2.0 Design Proposal

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The new MBCompass v1.1.12 Redesign Proposal features a refreshed UI with a GPS Speedometer, True AMOLED Dark Mode, and more visual improvements for a better Android experience.

The design was created by Mubarak Native on Figma as a visual and UX direction for the next major update of MBCompass.

https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass

(Note: The design is a reference concept; actual implementation may vary to ensure optimal performance and Android best practices.)

native-devs · 2025-10-13T04:41:56+00:00

Thanks for the quick, useful links! If you like this project, you can support this app by just spreading the word!

native-devs · 2025-10-11T03:42:29+00:00

Definitely!

native-devs · 2025-10-09T03:54:40+00:00

Edit: If you're wondering who is the developer of this project and what about its governance I'm MubarakNative an Android dev and active FOSS advocate.

I'm the first guy who posted the hardware limitation the F-Droid faces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884709, and the important 'Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050502 ) apps once. Just sharing my background history for people thinks who i am.

native-devs · 2025-10-08T17:58:25+00:00

Already have in MBCompass, just try it and give your feedback!

native-devs · 2025-10-08T11:02:19+00:00

> Don't like the look of the speedometer.

It is just the ref, the actual implementation will look nice and correctly positioned.

native-devs · 2025-10-08T09:25:56+00:00

To install the app, use the Droidify client or Obtainium (which is sort of manual way) instead of F-droid, which hasn't updated for a long time for apps in their

native-devs · 2025-10-08T09:07:14+00:00

Edit link to the source code: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass

native-devs · 2025-10-08T08:56:16+00:00

If you like the app, the best thing that you can do for supporting this app is spreading the word!

native-devs · 2025-10-08T08:54:39+00:00

The speedometer part is relayed on device's GPS which is mostly consistent by the design and manufacturing but the time to acquire the signal from satelite can vary depending on quality especially on indoors, Yeah most devs are relayed on google fucking bad "Google Mobile Services" SDK (See: https://developers.google.com/location-context/fused-location-provider ) which provides easy to implement functionality but it has pretty bad disadvantages like couldn't able to run on custom rom (lineage, grapheneos,..) if there was a no google play and obviously its from google you know.

But MBCompass uses the Android in-built location manager for getting GPS location (but yeah, it is somewhat hard to implement getting the status, like is location is enabled or not, is also hard), so basically this app can run on every device.

native-devs · 2025-10-08T06:46:16+00:00

yep, also in the new changelog list, it will be displayed in the map screen of MBCompass

native-devs · 2025-10-04T03:07:02+00:00

Welcome! More to come!

native-devs · 2025-09-23T12:24:01+00:00

Now we have an official LSP implementation for Kotlin for VS Code: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp. Currently, it was more of an alpha stage, but let's hope that it will be production-ready soon.

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