My Android Projects

aCar - Track your vehicles

Feedbacks on aCar

"Excellent software! Since I've found it I can now buy the Droid/Milestone."

~William Mann~

"Your app, aCar, is a nice find in the Android Market."

~Brett~

"aCar is a great and easy to use app, which I really like!"

~Ibrahim Tertemiz~

"I have used different app like this and I find yours to be way more complete than the others."

~thecaptive~

"I keep a log to calculate my mileage and this is the perfect app for keeping track of fuel expenses and mileage."

~Barnabas~

"Integrated functions to manage service and mileage history makes it a one-stop shop."

~Vaidyanathan~

"If you own a car, you need this app."

~Mario~

"Nice app, you add more fields so you can also use it on motorcycles or anything else with a motor. Highly recommended!"

~Darin~

"The auto backup feature saved all my data with no effort on my part, i had to restore my phone, the app even loaded it for me!"

~Mike~

"Lots of data and charts to track car cost. Replaced my spreedsheet."

~Curtis~

"Really useful and reliable."

~Andrew~

Release Notes

Here you can find the details about each release of aCar. The list includes enhancements, bug-fixes and new features each release brings:

v2.1.2 - August 12, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Import/Export processes crash on launch.

v2.1.0 - August 11, 2010

[New Feature] Added support for more fuel octanes and types. The list is dynamic and can be managed via the new Management screen accessible from the main screen.
[New Feature] Your service reminders are posted as notifications to your phone status bar while aCar is not running. This can be turned off via the application Settings.
[New Feature] New Reminders Center screen to manage your active reminders.
[New Feature] Added Distance Between FillUps chart. Also showing the stat when viewing a fill-up record.
[New Feature] Added Total Cost of Ownership to Statistics screen.
[New Feature] You can apply the default service reminders to all reminders of your vehicles in one shot (from Management screen).
[New Feature] You can reset the reminders of any of your vehicles to defaults (from Edit Reminders screen).
[Enhancement] Added Body Type, Color, Engine Displacement, Tire Size, Tire Pressure, Fuel Tank Capacity and Purchase Price fields to Vehicle.
[Enhancement] New option to include/drop the first fill-up record in/from the statistics.
[Enhancement] You can now unregister your donation ref ID on your old phone to use it on a new one (available on Donate & Go Pro! screen).
[Enhancement] Added support for more import formats from Fuelly.com.
[Enhancement] Minor UI improvements.
[Bug-Fix] There are no service reminders when importing data from CSV format.
[Bug-Fix] Some of the statistics are not accurate.

v2.0.4 - June 07, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Minor bug-fixes.

v2.0.3 - June 06, 2010

[Improvement] Added support for more currency symbols (available in application Settings).
[Bug-Fix] Fuel Efficiency values are not calculated correctly when converting unit from or to MPG (UK).
[Bug-Fix] Random crashes here and there for accessing the database.
[Bug-Fix] Minor CSV Import fixes.

v2.0.2 - May 10, 2010

[Improvement] Added the option (available in Settings) to use either numeric keypad or normal QWERTY soft keyboard for inputting numeric values. Sony Xperia X10 and Samsung Behold II owners can use this to lessen the headaches of working with keypad (decimal point "." issue on keypad of those phones).
[Bug-Fix] The per day statistics are incorrect.
[Bug-Fix] Minor user interface bug-fixes.

v2.0.1 - May 04, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Some of the texts below the icons on main screen are cut off on Droid.
[Bug-Fix] The application Settings screens are all black and nothing visible (Droid).

v2.0.0 - May 02, 2010

[Improvement] Entirely redesigned user interface with improved navigation, theme and better readability/contrast.
[Improvement] Improved statistics screen. Now includes Service information as well.
[Improvement] Ads have been completely removed :-)
[New Feature] New application home screen to get a quick overview on what's going on with your vehicles. All at a glance!
[New Feature] 9 new charts have been added: Driven Distance Comparison, Expenses Comparison, Fuel Efficiencies Comparison, Average Cost/Day Comparison, Average Cost/DistanceUnit Comparison, Average Cost/VolumeUnit Comparison, Average Cost/FillUp Comparison based on Fuel Octane, Fuel Expenses Comparison based on Fuel Octane, Average Fuel Efficiencies Comparison based on Fuel Octane
[Bug-Fix] Minor bug fixes.

v1.3.1 - March 11, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Failed to upgrade from a very old version ( < 1.0.7 ) to a recent one ( > 1.0.8 ).
[Bug-Fix] Can not import RoadTrip CSV file content with liter and kilometer units.
[Bug-Fix] Can not import aCar and RoadTrip CSV file content after the files are edited in a spreadsheet software (the original structure gets modified a bit).
[Improvement] Data export to CSV has been improved. The units for Odometer Reading, Fill-Up Volume and Fuel Efficiency have been moved to the separate columns of their own. Odometer Reading, Fill-Up Volume and Fuel Efficiency columns are pure numeric now!

v1.3.0 - March 03, 2010

[New Feature] Data export to Excel compatible CSV format.
[New Feature] Data import from aCar application (CSV).

v1.2.11 - February 19, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Hitting the BACK button, while editing the service reminders of a vehicle, does not save the changes!
[Bug-Fix] Can not import any CSV file with more than one "." in its file name. It's wrongly rejected for having invalid format!
[Bug-Fix] The soft keyboard is popped up at application startup on a few phone models. The previous fix (v.1.1.3) does not work!
[Enhancement] There are checkboxes to enable/disable distance and time based service reminders for vehicles. There is no way to do the same for the default service reminders.
[Enhancement] Further support for importing from Auto 3in1 application. More formats are supported now.

v1.2.10 - February 11, 2010

[New Feature] Data import from Auto 3in1 application.

v1.2.8 - February 07, 2010

[Bug-Fix] In none Pro mode, tapping on Start Restore at Full Restore screen will bring up a never ending wait dialog!

v1.2.7 - February 07, 2010

[Enhancement] Improved user interface for Plain CSV Import.
[Enhancement] Help & Usage Tips added to Plain CSV Import screen to guide the users on whats and hows of import process.

v1.2.6 - February 06, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Import Fill-Up Records and Import Service Records buttons are disabled (grayed out) in Plain CSV Import screen when there is only one CSV file in the expected directory on SD-Card.

v1.2.5 - February 05, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Importing plain CSV with no vehicle information is not possible.
[Bug-Fix] Can not import files containing fill-up records with identical date/time values.
[Bug-Fix] Can not import files containing service records with identical date/time values.
[Bug-Fix] Can not import fuelly.com CSV files which contain trip mileage instead of odometer reading.
[Enhancement] Better error reporting for possible import issues.
[New Feature] Data import from Road Trip application.

v1.2.0 - February 02, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Full Restore chokes when the date/time values in the backup file are not in the current date/time format.
[Bug-Fix] Full Restore clears the currently registered donation information if the backup file does not contain any donation information (the backup has been taken before registering the donation).
[Bug-Fix] Full Restore chokes on date/time parsing when the current locale is not the same as backup file locale.
[New Feature] Data import from plain CSV format (MS-Excel compatible).
[New Feature] Data import from Mileage application.
[New Feature] Data import from Fuelly.com.
[New Feature] Data import from FuelFrog.com.

v1.1.3 - January 13, 2010

[Bug-Fix] The soft keyboard is popped up at application startup on a few phone models.
[Bug-Fix] Average Fuel Efficiency (MPG) shown on main screen and fuel statistics is slightly wrong. It must be calculated based on total distance and total fuel volume instead of mathematical average.
[Bug-Fix] Total Fuel Volume and Total Fuel Cost are slightly wrong on fuel statistics. The first fill-up and those marked as missed previous fill-ups should be dropped from calculations as they skew the results.
[Enhancement] Added incremental odometer reading input support by prefixing the relative values with +. It will be automatically converted to absolute reading.
[Enhancement] You can just enter the last three digits of odometer reading for fill-up records if it's more than 1000. The first few digits will be automatically copied from previous record. (e.g. If you already have an odometer reading 23,655.8 and enter 923.2 for your next fill-up record, it will be converted to 23,923.2)

v1.1.0 - January 03, 2010

[Bug-Fix] Wrong behavior when entering a fill-up knowing only price per liter/gallon and total cost.
[Bug-Fix] Charts are not filtered correctly based on the last 6, 3 and 1 months periods after entering 2010! A date range calculation problem.
[Enhancement] Vehicle model, make and insurance policy field lengths have been increased. Model and Make are 15 and insurance policy is 25 characters now.
[New Feature] Full manual backup for the data and the application settings has been added.
[New Feature] Full manual restore for the data and the application settings has been added.
[New Feature] Automatic backup in specified intervals has been added.
[New Feature] Automatic recovery (restore) after a phone reset or a reinstall has been added.

v1.0.8 - December 09, 2009

[Bug-Fix] Most of the statistics on Fuel Statistics report table are not calculated correctly when the fill-up records are filtered not by date or vehicle.
[Bug-Fix] Records are not filtered correctly based on From/To Date criteria in Advanced Search.
[Enhancement] Inline search bar visibility state is preserved when switching from portrait mode to landscape and vice versa.
[Enhancement] When inline search bar is closed, the main screen switches to normal non-filtered mode. This is to keep the UI more consistent and to avoid any misunderstanding.
[Enhancement] BACK button saves the current record (fillup-record, service-record, service, vehicle) as the default behavior if there aren't any validation errors.
[Enhancement] Quick User Guide has been improved.

v1.0.7 - November 30, 2009

[Bug-Fix] Crash/Force-Close problem on Android 1.5 devices has been fixed.

v1.0.6 - November 30, 2009

[Bug-Fix] Fuel Efficiency is not calculated for the oldest block of partial fill-up records even if there is a full fill-up after them.
[Bug-Fix] Deleting the most recent fill-up record does not set the Fuel Efficiency of the previous record to zero (which is the most recent record after deletion).

v1.0.5 - November 22, 2009

[Enhancement] Some tips for those first time users who have been stuck in landscape (graphical charts) mode of the application, with no data, on their first few launches.

v1.0.4 - November 21, 2009

[Bug-Fix] No more force-close on editing a Vehicle or its Service Reminders.
[Bug-Fix] Total Cost of FillUp Record is correctly calculated and stored for non-English locales (those using decimal comma instead of decimal point).
[Bug-Fix] Auto-complete fields pass the focus when one taps on soft on-screen keyboard's Next button.
[Bug-Fix] Total Cost is rounded into 2 decimal digits. This had been messed up in previous version.
[New Feature] Missed Fill-Ups support has been added.

v1.0.3 - November 14, 2009

[Bug-Fix] No more false error message on date/time and odometer fields when editing a Fill-Up or Service Record when there are other records with close odometer readings and date/time from multiple vehicles.
[Enhancement] More decimal digits for gas volume.

v1.0.2 - November 11, 2009

[Bug-Fix] When the Fuel Efficiency unit is changed from application Settings, the numbers are correctly converted.
[Bug-Fix] Fuel Efficiency is calculated correctly when there is a partial fill-up record.
[Enhancement] More decimal digits for amounts. Up to three decimal digits are shown on main screen.
[Enhancement] The inline Getting Started guide has been improved to provide better and more suitable help tips.
[Enhancement] Some hints have been added to text fields, to have better data entry.
[Enhancement] New icon added to indicate the partial fill-ups on main screen.
[Enhancement] Distance Till Next Fill-Up is displayed on View Fill-Up screen.
[Enhancement] Soft keyboard gets hidden when switching from one screen to another.

v1.0.1 - November 07, 2009

[Enhancement] Quick User Guide has been added.

v1.0.0 - November 05, 2009

Initial release!

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