So I went into the gallery and looked at the app called GPS. I dowloaded the APk on to my phone and tried it out. Just as an experiment. It sort of remembers my current location alright. So I made it remember my house location. I then walked 200 yards and asked it to take me back home. It got into Google maps okay but then it wasn't able to give me directions. Having the google maps app on my phone anyway. I tried that and it seemed to work. I wonder what's going on.
I tried the app called GPS
Can you provide a link ?
The description you provided about the GPS app you downloaded is a lot like MIT's Where's My Car tutorial app.
Where's My Car is supposed to get you back to your point of origin using the ActivityStarter and a link to Google Maps.
Is that the app you tried Tim? Or is it different?
As I recall that app only provides directions if the 200 yards you walked follows a road. To code something that saves your route you will probably need to use the Map component to code your app.
You might get in your car; save your origin location and drive somewhere and then ask for return directions and it might work. Guessing. You need to provide a link to the app you downloaded as Tim suggested for us to help.
Oh, it is the same app but someone posted a clone of the app in the Gallery.
I did walk to where there was a road. I'm thinking there's nothing wrong with the app except for the way it interacts with google maps. But I may be wrong.