Travel Blog 2.2.1

Name: Travel Blog
Rating: 3.94118 (51 reviews)
Author: Barkside Apps

1 MB / 10K+ Downloads / Rating 3.9 - 51 reviews

Travel Blog, developed and published by Barkside Apps, has released its latest version, 2.2.1, on 2013-12-14. This app falls under the Travel & Local category on the Google Play Store and has achieved over 10000 installs. It currently holds an overall rating of 3.9, based on 51 reviews.

Travel Blog APK available on this page is compatible with all Android devices that meet the required specifications (Android 2.2+). It can also be installed on PC and Mac using an Android emulator such as Bluestacks, LDPlayer, and others.

App Screenshot

App Details

Package name: com.barkside.travellocblog

Updated: 11 years ago

Developer Name: Barkside Apps

Category: Travel & Local

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App Permissions: Show more

Installation Instructions

This article outlines two straightforward methods for installing Travel Blog on PC Windows and Mac.

Using BlueStacks

Download the APK/XAPK file from this page.
Install BlueStacks by visiting http://bluestacks.com.
Open the APK/XAPK file by double-clicking it. This action will launch BlueStacks and begin the application's installation. If the APK file does not automatically open with BlueStacks, right-click on it and select 'Open with...', then navigate to BlueStacks. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop the APK file onto the BlueStacks home screen.
Wait a few seconds for the installation to complete. Once done, the installed app will appear on the BlueStacks home screen. Click its icon to start using the application.

Using LDPlayer

Download and install LDPlayer from https://www.ldplayer.net.
Drag the APK/XAPK file directly into LDPlayer.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

App Rating

3.9

Total 51 reviews

Reviews

2 ★, on 2014-11-06
I like what this app tries to do, especially since it makes a map, but it lacks a way to enter GPS coordinates for entries that were missed. (Sometimes I forget to make an entry until I've already left a place). Also, it would be nice to be able to draw the lines by train route rather than "the way the crow flies", but that might be technically challenging to implement.

1 ★, on 2013-12-29
Location is not accurate

5 ★, on 2016-10-16
Ok

3 ★, on 2011-12-21
Just like Blogger except will map your trip (handy). But no photos! If send to Blogger Ap worked right we could attach photos to posts there, but send fails. Also, if could enter a manual address we could use to make our own travel guide .

1 ★, on 2013-07-05
Twice my trip has been deleted on me half way through. Waste of time. Good thing I wrote it down longhand.

5 ★, on 2012-06-17
Just the basics & does what it says on the tin! Uses GPS so no data required when traveling in remote places... Love it thanks for not over engineering something, keeping it simple is the key :-) thanks again

Previous Versions

Travel Blog 2.2.1
2013-12-14 / 1 MB / Android 2.2+

About this app

Travel Blog is a FREE, open-sourced, advert-free, Android application. It is a light-weight travel logger perfect for any traveller.

It can:
• Log your location from GPS, Wifi or cell-id (tells you how accurate the fix is).
• Low battery usage, with configurable timeouts.
• Can manually edit location by dragging marker on a map.
• Attach a name and description with current timestamp.
• Log multiple trips.
• Edit or delete old posts.
• Save as KML file to SD card:
• KML file can then be Sent via email, or anything else you have installed like Dropbox.
• KML files can be imported to Google Earth and other similar applications.
• Time-stamp of each post saved so Google Earth animations and timelines can be used.
• View trip on Classic Google Maps.
• Support widgets to open New Post of multiple trips.
• Share a KML file from another app to this one.

It is not a battery hogger as it doesn't continually log your location, perfect for travelling in remote parts of the world, or long periods away from power. It also doesn't need internet (unless you want to view trip in google maps, or send it via email etc), perfect for travel abroad where data roaming costs plenty.

Why you need Travel Blog?

There are many uses of Travel Blog. Whenever you want to record your location manually (only record the interesting bits), this is the app for the job! You can then look at your trips directly on your phone, or share them with others.

If, like me, you like to use all the free technology available to you, here is a more involved use case example:

You are going on a long holiday abroad. You have your Android phone with you, but know the battery doesn't last long, and you can't afford the data roaming charges. You would like to record where you went or keep your family and friends abreast of your travels. So you can set up your own travel blog on Blogger. You can also set up your own Dropbox account which is online place to store files. By now your using the Travel Blog app, and are recording your location (say your hotel, favourite beach, day trip to a city, weekend trip to the mountains etc etc). You come across Wifi access in your hotel, cafe or train - now you can send your Travel Blog trip file to Dropbox. If you have no Wifi access, you decide to plug your phone into a PC at the local cyber cafe, and transfer the file manually to the PC, and from there to Dropbox.

Now before you went away, you set your up your blog website with a link to the Google Maps search of you Dropbox Travel Blog file: In Dropbox, copy the link to your KML file by going to share... Now in Google Maps (Classic or My Maps), enter this copied link into the Search Maps box and hit enter. This is your map, and you can now share this map. Goto Link, and either embed the HTML into your Blog website, or just share the link in emails, or on your blog website.

As long as you also overwrite the same file in Dropbox with your updated Travel Blog trip, your Blog website will always be up-to-date, and won't need changing each time to point to a new file. Genius!

WE HAVE NOW GONE OPEN-SOURCED! TAKE PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL FEATURES! See http://code.google.com/p/travel-blog-android/

Contributions so far from Avinash Chopde - Thanks for your work!

Any problems or suggestions, please see our open-source pages at http://code.google.com/p/travel-blog-android/ and our google groups mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/travel-blog-android

New features

App widgets can be installed on the home screen to jump to the New Post editing screen.
Multiple widgets can be installed, each widget can point to a different trip file.
Importing capability added. Other Android applications can now send .kml files to this app.
Rename Trip menu command added.
Bug fixes and minor UI tweaks.
Thanks Avinash Chopde for all these latest contributions!

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read from external storage.