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Portland Transit

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Description

Portland Transit makes use of TriMet's developer resources to bring a full interface to transit information for Android users. It allows you to quickly and easily look up arrival times for any stop that TriMet reports. This includes all MAX stops, bus stops, and WES stops (unfortunately Streetcar times are not currently available). The major features of Portland Transit include:

  • Lookup times by Stop ID
  • Lookup stops by route / line
  • Save commonly used stops
  • View any stop in maps
  • Plan trips (with speech recognition and previous-entry memory)
  • Add stop shortcuts to Home
  • Use radar/maps to find stop
  • Find nearby stops
  • Strobe function for flagging busses at night
  • One-click calling of TriMet
  • Nicknaming for saved stops

Screenshots

Portland Transit Main Menu Find a stop with the map Find a stop with the radar Search for nearby stops Plan a trip See multiple trip options Find a stop by it's route Favorite commonly used stops and trips View the upcoming arrivals at a stop See the service alerts currently in effect Find rail stations with the Rail Map View a stop on the map Phone TriMet Save a shortcut to a commonly used stop to Home Use the strobe to flag down busses

More Info

Price: $2.29
Download from: The Android Market

FAQs

Will you add feature X?

We're always interested to hear ideas for possible features, but we can't guarantee they will be added. We're attempting to keep Portland Transit as simple/clean as possible to use so we don't want to add too much bloat to it.

Why is the scheduling information occasionally inacurate?

We wish we knew! The scheduling data comes directly from TriMet's servers, so Portland Transit should be as accurate as any other source (including TriMet's site). The only advice we can offer is that you should pay attention to the wording on the schedule page for a stop. If TriMet has a pretty good idea when the bus/max/etc will be there then it will read "Estimated: X minutes (HH:MM)" otherwise they'll just pass the scheduled time and it will read "Scheduled: X minutes (HH:MM)".

What isn't the Streetcar's information available?

Currently Trimet doesn't have permission to make this information available to third-parties. We assure you that as soon as they do we will make use of it.

What is the strobe for?

For flagging down busses at night! TriMet says "To help avoid accidental pass-ups, wear light-colored clothing and wave your cell phone, flashlight or safety strobe to alert the operator as your bus approaches." We're just trying to make it easier for you.

Portland Transit 10.03.1 Released

- Added clickable Rail Map.
- Added screen for service Alerts.
- Added built-in Help section.
- Added notices for canceled and delayed arrivals to stop display screen.
- Added a way to remove stops from the favorite list on long-click.
- Added the ability to favorite trips.
- Added a link to Trimet's stop webpage to the Display Stop screen.
- Added a link to Trimet's route webpage to the Display Stop screen (long-press a time).
- Added a way to plan a trip to/from a location to the Display Stop screen.
- Added caching to the Routes list and made it use an "expandable" display.
- Added the ability to save Trips.
- Completely reworked the Plan Trip screen. Now allows using saved stops, my location, has fewer unused options, and a better UI all-around.
- Completely reworked the Near By stops screen to use a map to show current/target accuracy and to show the stops' location/direction.
- Moved About section into Help.
- Renamed Saved Stops to Favorites.
- Updated arrival indicator graphics to use the "gloss" style on medium-density screens.
- Changed the "you are here" pointer on the Map Finder screen to better reflect Google Maps style.
- Rewrote the network stack and open sourced it as androidTrimet. It now uses less memory and is faster.
- Stop Display screen no longer shows the "banding" in the title bar and there's shadowing on the text.
- Updated UI backgrounds on several screens.
- Fixed bug where Stop Display screen didn't properly respect preference for 12/24 hour format.
- Fixed bug where when using on-screen keyboard to plan a trip the "Next" button didn't respond.
- Fixed bug where when going from a stop on the favorites list to it's display page you'd get a flash of an empty list.
- Fixed bug where if you rotated a stop display screen the Favorite button wouldn't display it's state correctly.
- Fixed bug where the "you are here" compass on the map finder screen didn't take into consideration a layout rotation.
- Fixed bug where network (API) lookups would fail if a screen rotation took place mid-lookup.
- Fixed bug where failed network (API) lookups would would cause the app to crash if there was no connectivity.
- Fixed bug where Stop Display screen wouldn't wait until a stop had loaded to start the refresh countdown.

17:00 5 March 2010

Portland Transit 9.12.1 Released

- Split the Nearby Stops functionality into several screens.
- Added setting to keep screen on while a Nearby lookup is taking place.
- Added option to manually override accuracy on Nearby Stops lookup.
- Added better status messages to Nearby stops.
- Fixed bug where Plan Trip would occasionally fail with no error.

09:58 23 December 2009

Portland Transit 9.11.6 and 9.11.7 Released

- Made it so that the "Plan Trip" screen will remember/suggest previously entered addresses.
- Made it so that the stop display screen auto-updates.
- Completely reworked the stop display screen's UI.
- Reworked the stop display screen's menu (removed several items and added a "Main" screen button).
- Fixed several typos in the app's content.
- Improved the UI on several of the error screens.
- Fixed bug where devices still running Android 1.5 would encounter errors with the map-based stop finder.
- Improved Flurry Analytics integration so we could better diagnose errors on user's devices.

03:08 24 November 2009

Portland Transit 9.11.5 Released

- Added Flurry Analytics so we could better tell what platforms people are running. Don't worry, no user identifiable information is transmitted.

08:20 16 November 2009

Portland Transit 9.11.4 Released

- Fixed bug where devices still running Android 1.5 would use some incorrect graphics.

03:45 9 November 2009

Portland Transit 9.11.3 Released

- Added new icon for high-density devices.
- Removed the periodic "Annoyer" screen that would request fedback.
- Fixed bug where the "Route Listing" screen would occasionally have the wrong title.
- Fixed bug where using the on-screen keyboard on the "Main" screen's Stop ID input could cause double lookups.

18:00 7 November 2009

Portland Transit 9.11.2 Released

- Added high-density graphics for newer devices (such as the Motorola Droid).
- Reworked the "Main" screen's layout to work with devices with alternate screen sizes.
- Changed the Stop ID input field on the "Main" screen to bring up the number pad for on-screen keyboards.
- Changed the address input fields on the "Plan Trip" screen to bring up an address keyboard for on-screen keyboards.
- Changed Refresh menu item in the "Display Stop" page to use a new image.

20:00 6 November 2009

Portland Transit 9.10.1 Released

- Fixed bug in "Plan Trip" where users who hadn't specified a default date format would experience a Force Close.
- Updated "Plan Trip" UI to make it more fluid for users who don't want to specify additional options.

17:50 19 October 2009

Portland Transit 9.09.1 Released

- Added the ability to use networks for determing "Near By" location.
- Added speech recognition to "Plan Trip".

00:20 25 September 2009

Portland Transit 9.06.4 Released

- Made it so that "Home" shortcuts don't respect the application history (hitting the back button will exit). This only works with new shortcuts.
- Added the ability to customize "Near By" GPS accuracy.
- Added golbal settings to the "Main" screen.
- Moved the Standard/Metric units preference from "Find with Map" to the global preferences.
- Made it so that when one adds a shortcut the EditText is single-line only and an "enter" keypress will save the shortcut.

20:00 15 July 2009

Portland Transit 9.06.03 Released

- Made the "Main" screen's buttons use modified 1.5 buttons (instead of 1.1 buttons).
- Improved "Home" lightbulb icon for strobe button.
- Moved all "Home" screen icon text over to Droid Sans.
- Made "Home" icons narrower to fit w/ new button styles (including removing the "call" from "call trimet").

20:00 15 July 2009

Portland Transit 9.06.2 Released

- Fixed bug where the "Plan Trip" screen would Force Quit in Landscape mode

20:00 15 July 2009

Portland Transit 9.06.1 Released

- Fixed bug where if you exited the "Find with Map" screen the GPS would stay on.
- Fixed bug where you couldn't cancel out of the shortcut creation screen.
- Fixed bug where on the 20th run the "Thanks" screen would appear blank (cupcake).
- Added CloseBy stops lookup.
- UI changes to the main menu screen (added "Close By" button, tweaked layout).
- Removed Streetcar from the routes since we can't seem to get data for them.
- Made many of the messages "cuter".
- Added stop id to DisplaySchedule screen.
- Added link to twitter user's page on About screen.

20:00 15 July 2009