hello,
recently we looked at an app called Clew.
I noticed on the Applevis website the developer of this app has requested
checking out the beta version of the app clew.
important you must download the app testflight, this allows for testing apps
in beta mode.
I notice one important change you can now save routes.
below I have pasted in the information from the applevis website.
albert
Beta version of Clew available with support for route saving!
Hi Folks,
I posted this in some existing threads about Clew, but I felt it was
appropriate to make a new post in the forum as well.
Based on feedback from many early adopters of Clew (thank you to all!), we
are pleased to announce the release of a beta version of Clew that
incorporates many of the suggestions we've heard from the community.
The short version of this notice is that you can download a beta version of
Clew through Apple's Test Flight using the link below. Makes sure to read
the new help file as a number of things about Clew have changed
significantly (or keep reading). Here is the link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/yjuFusW2 to the beta.
Here are the major changes:
(1) By far the most requested feature for Clew is route saving. Clew now
supports saving routes. Detailed information on how to save routes is given
through the in-app "Help" menu. At a high-level, to save a route you must
first anchor your route by positioning your phone in a location and
orientation that you can return to at a later time (unassisted) and then
activating the "Create Landmark" button. One can think of this position as a
"landmark" in much the same way as landmark's are thought of in orientation
and mobility courses. It is a place that helps you orient and position
yourself within an environment. Good choices for landmarks are vertical
surfaces that are easy to find such as door frames, walls, or windows.
To reload the route, you can return to this same location, position your
phone as you did when you created the route, and the app will start
providing feedback. Many times when navigating along a route, the app will
be able to further refine your alignment to the saved route by registering
the current environment's visual features to those that it saw when the
route was initially recorded. Since this automatic registration does not
happen every time, it is necessary to use a landmark in addition to
automatic alignment.
(2) Support for bi-directional routes. Initial versions of Clew only allowed
for navigating your route in reverse. Many folks requested the ability to
navigate the route in the forward or reverse direction. Support for this has
been added. Importantly, we have observed that route guidance is actually
more accurate in the forward direction than the reverse direction
(especially when loading saved routes).
(3) Enhancements for users with low vision. We have enlarged text and button
sizes in many parts of the UI (although, many more changes are in the works
to do a better job of supporting users with low vision.). We have also
allowed for speech feedback that is not tied to VoiceOver. This means that
if you have enabled the voice feedback option, the app will speak directions
to you even if you are not using VoiceOver.
(4) Easier to use pause and create landmark procedure. When pausing a route
in previous versions of Clew, the user was instructed to place the phone
against a vertical surface with the camera facing out and the screen facing
the wall. In this configuration the user confirmed that the phone was in the
correct position using the volume button (since the screen is not physically
accessible in this configuration). We have changed this procedure. Now,
alignment is done by pressing the top edge of the phone flush with the
vertical surface and the screen facing up. In this configuration, the
phone's position can be confirmed with an onscreen button (which is much
more standard). We have also found that this alignment procedure seems to be
a bit more accurate than the previous one and is certainly easier to do and
comes with less risk of dropping one's phone.
(5) Sound feedback volume is now tied to the phone's volume level even if
the mute / vibrate switch is activated. This change was made in response to
some users who were not hearing sound feedback and had a tough time
understanding what was causing this. The reason in many cases was that the
mute / vibrate switch was activated. The new behavior is that if the sound
feedback option is activated in the app settings, the app will play sounds
(provided the phone's volume is non-zero).
(6) More transparent communication of tracking errors. The previous version
of Clew hid most of the potential errors with motion tracking from the user.
Now the app communicates errors such as in cases where there are poor visual
features in you environment or if the phone is being moved too quickly.
(7) Dropped support for iOS 11. The new route saving feature requires iOS 12
(or higher) to work as well as possible. While a much more basic version of
route saving would have been possible with iOS 11, we didn't feel that it
would work well enough to justify implementing it.
We would love feedback on these new features before we release this as an
official app update. You can provide feedback through TestFlight e-mail
contact or to either of these e-mail addresses (Paul.Ruvolo@xxxxxxxx or
clewapp@xxxxxxxxx).
As a final note, while the changes above certainly address some of the
feedback we've gotten from you all, there are still many things we have not
had a chance to do (one notable thing is support for other languages).
Please trust us that we are working on these aspects of the app and look
forward to continually improving Clew for the community.
Known bugs:
(1) The display of metric units got a bit mangled in the current beta build.
It is still apparent what is being communicated, but a space was
accidentally left out of the text that VoiceOver reads. This is fixed, but I
am waiting to upload a new beta build for when we have collected and
responded to more feedback from the community.
Again, the link to the beta version that can be downloaded through
TestFlight is here:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/yjuFusW2
All the best, and we really appreciate the feedback we have gotten from the
community to help us improve Clew,
Paul
https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/beta-version-clew-avai
lable-support-route-saving
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