Appendix C: Versions

GPS Essentials receives regular feature additions. Since we deployed GPS Essentials to Android Market, today Google Play, for the very first time, we pushed many updates.

Every release has a unique version number that consists of three parts: A major version, a minor version and a build number, for example 4.5.38. The major version number changes when something dramatically changes in GPS Essentials and we went from 1 to 2 when we added tracking because this was a big step ahead. The minor version we increment whenever a new piece of functionality was added that we think is worth mentioning. While we add new features, we are also maintaining the app to remove bugs, make it more stable and support specific devices. Every time a new release comes out, we increment the build number so that we can distinguish the releases.

New features that are not finished yet can be tried under Labs in Settings before they are released.

The version you have is shown at the top of the app's help home page. After an update, the “Upgraded to …” message in Messages tells you what's new.