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Bluetooth GPS Provider for Android

I'm pleased to announce that Bluetooth GPS Provider for Android is available on the Android Market.

Now it's possible to use an external bluetooth GPS receiver with your Android 2.x phone. This gives you better battery life and in general the external receivers are a lot better in terms of accuracy.

Every NMEA capable GPS receiver should work. Unfortunately not all applications are compatible with the app but a lot are.

Apps which are reported compatible include:

Apps which are not compatible (yet) include:
  • Wikitude
  • Taiwan NaviKing
I hope to increase compatability in future releases and I'm currently in the process of investigating what prevents the incompatible apps from working with the external GPS receivers. The later is especially relevant for activities like Geocaching and similar applications.

If you are unsure if your favorite app is supported just download Bluetooth GPS Provider and try it yourself. In the Market you can give it back (uninstall) within 24 hours and you won't be charged by Google. I think that's a fair deal.

If you find more supported or unsupported apps it would be great to hear about that. Just send me a mail so I can update the list of supported / unsupported apps here.

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