aCar - Track your vehicles

[Armond]

[UPDATED for v2.5.x]

Hi Guys,

It's a few days I've released my first Android application (aCar) to Google Android Market under "Productivity" category (for FREE). aCar is an all-in-one handy application to effectively track the fuel mileage and costs, maintenance, business (and non-business) trips/mileages and general expenses of your vehicles.

Feature List:
* Tracking the fuel mileage, fillup costs, maintenance and general expenses of your vehicles
* Tracking the business trips/mileages you're going with your vehicles
* Multiple vehicles support
* Supporting several international units: MPG (US, Canada & Imperial), gal/100mi (US & Imperial), mi/L, km/gal (US & Imperial), L/100km, km/L
* Service reminders for vehicles (both time and mileage based); will be posted on your phone status bar. They are highly customizable for each vehicle separately
* Thorough statistics of your vehicles at a glance
* Powerful searching and filtering
* Graphical charts and reports: Fuel Efficiency, Fuel Price, Fuel Costs, Service Costs, General Expenses, Distance between FillUps, Price per Gallon/Liter, Gallons/Liters per FillUp and many more (Pro Feature!)
* Comparison charts for your vehicles (Pro Feature!)
* Full manual/automatic data and application settings backup/restore (Pro Feature!)
* Importing data from various sources: Auto 3in1 application (Windows), AutoMobile application (PalmOS/Windows/Android), Mileage application (Android), MPG application (PalmOS/iOS), Road Trip application (iOS), TealAuto application (PalmOS/WebOS), Vehicle Manager application (Windows), Fuelly.com website, FuelFrog.com website, SpritMonitor.de website and any plain Excel compatible CSV file (Pro Feature!)
* Exporting records to Excel compatible CSV format (Pro Feature!)
* Exporting statistics to Excel compatible CSV and browser viewable HTML formats (Pro Feature!)

The application contains a FAQ (accessible from the main screen) where you can find the frequently asked questions. This is a good place to start with if you are experiencing any problem, before contacting me!

I will appreciate if any of you download and give it a try and let me know what you think. Whether the overall user interface of the application is intuitive and good enough, or how you would like to see it improved. I need all your feedback, comments, complaints, mentioning of pros and cons, or whatever else you would like to share about this application, good or bad! All are welcome!

More information: http://www.zonewalker.com/acar

And some inline screen shots:



Thank you,
Armond

[xravexboix]

Looks good. I'll download it today and provide some feedback in a few weeks.

[Armond]

Thanks a lot! Eagerly waiting for your feedbacks...

Armond

[Chedderknight]

awesome, downloading

[Dixie]

Hi Armond! Welcome to AC! I am so glad you posted this... I downloaded your app a few days ago, and have gotten a look at it, but have not had time to fill everything in that I wanted to yet.... it looks like a great app, I'm glad to see you here, getting interest up!

[Armond]

Dixie, Thanks a lot for your welcome post.

And guys, thanks for giving aCar a try :-) Looking for your feedbacks and comments even if they are negative ones!

[scotm33]

Hey Armond! Great work, I really like the app. I've been using one called Mileage that does the same thing (but has fewer service reminders than yours), but I really like the look of acar. The only thing I'd ask for right now would be a way to export/import all your data. I know I tend to flash my phone a lot and need to reinstall everything occasionally. So, for me, I'd need some way to back everything up.

Love it so far though!

[Armond]

Hey Armond! Great work, I really like the app. I've been using one called Mileage that does the same thing (but has fewer service reminders than yours), but I really like the look of acar. The only thing I'd ask for right now would be a way to export/import all your data. I know I tend to flash my phone a lot and need to reinstall everything occasionally. So, for me, I'd need some way to back everything up.

Love it so far though!

Thanks a lot for downloading/trying aCar and glad to see you've liked it :-)

As more and more people are requesting for import/export feature, it's getting higher and higher priority in my todo list. I'm indeed planning this for the next major version which will not be far.

Right for the very moment, I'm mostly busy with small bug-fixes, improvements and so. I want to make sure the basic features I've introduced in initial version are mostly working flawlessly, and everybody is happy with current features. Technically speaking, I need to get stable on the data model and the database schema behind aCar, before introducing it. After all, I quite understand your concerns (I myself do flash my phone once in a while) and doing my best to bring it on as soon as I can.

Best Regards,

[thecaptive]

I have just switched from Blackberry to Droid and the major consideration for doing that was finding you app. I have used different app like this and I find your to be way more complete than the others. The only thing I think would put it over the top is a way to manage mileage for tax purposes. The other ones have the option to track your mileage, I didn't realize yours didn't until I downloaded it. If this is something that could be integrated at a later date great.

I also agree with the backing up of info.

[Armond]

I have just switched from Blackberry to Droid and the major consideration for doing that was finding you app. I have used different app like this and I find your to be way more complete than the others. The only thing I think would put it over the top is a way to manage mileage for tax purposes. The other ones have the option to track your mileage, I didn't realize yours didn't until I downloaded it. If this is something that could be integrated at a later date great.

Thanks a lot for your feedbacks, and for your complements :-) I'm glad to see that it has come handy to you.

As for tracking the mileage for tax purposes, I just put it in my todo list to be sure not to forget it. But first I need to know the right way to do it. Would you please name a few of those applications already have this? Either on iPhone/iPodTouch platform or on Android if there are any, and I will take a look.
Or if you have any direct suggestion on this please let me know.

I also agree with the backing up of info.

Okay! One more vote for data import/export :-)

Best Regards,