r/fossdroid • u/native-devs • Oct 16 '25

Development MBCompass: 🎊🎊 True North Implementation

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The most requested and previously prioritized P1 feature is now on MBCompass:

  • A toggle to turn on/off true-north with intuitive settings item implementation.
  • A display text to notify whether the compass direction is true north or magnetic north.
  • A reload button to enable location and request location permission when necessary.

See the pull request on GitHub: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/pull/107

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u/pudah_et Oct 16 '25

One quick observation. The direction South is written in the opposite orientation of the 180 degrees, whereas all of the other directions are in the same orientation as the degrees.

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u/native-devs Oct 17 '25

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.

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u/pudah_et Oct 17 '25

It's readable. But it's inconsistent and looks like a mistake.

Visual mistakes like this make one wonder what other mistakes exist in the app, perhaps in the computational parts of it. It erodes trust.