First a short background. HTC Hero released with android 1.5. Google releases android 1.6 with TTS (text-to-speech) support. Andnav2 working fine since it uses external tts library. Author of Andnav2 (Nicolas) releases version compatible with android 1.6, but leaves all users of 1.5 devices out in the cold. The update was uploaded to marked with NO warning. After many talks back and forth Nicolas finally agrees to release a version that at least starts up on 1.5, but still crashes when using turn navigation. HTC announces that they are working on a new firmware based on 2.0, but release has not yet been determined.
So with that history out of the way, I now announce a version of AndNav2 that works on HTC Hero by simply removing all the calls to TTS. You can download the version here. Please note that you need to uninstall your previous version of andnav2 first as this version is simply signed with the android beta key.
I could have removed all the ads as well, but that was not the point of this reverse engineering. I simply want to be able to use a program, which in my view, is the killer app for the android phone. Don’t get me started on Google Maps with navigation. It’s US only, not based on OSM, and works only on android >= 1.6.
Enjoy 🙂