Free, detailed independent maps with step-by-step navigation. Free maps of the entire world. Design routes.

Navit is available on Android! Using the Internal GUI, Navit enables complete offline routing anywhere in the world using map data from OpenStreetMap. Note that this is not an Android app in the traditional sense - it is a direct port of Navit (with a couple of extra features for Android), so isn't as integrated with Android as you may expect from other apps - bear this in mind when using it for the first time!

• 1Installation
• 2Useful information
  • 2.3Layouts
    • 2.3.10606.at Android Layout
    • 2.3.2HDPI Android Layout
      • 2.3.2.1Top

Installation[edit]

There are several ways of installing Navit to your Android devices:

• From Google's Play store, you can also subscribe to the beta program here
• Install from the F-Droid Repository : Navit on F-Droid
• Manually install from apk's built nightly from the latest source code : Nightly Builds
• Building Navit yourself from source : Build from Source

Manually installing from an apk means that you have the very latest features built into Navit, but requires you to install and update it yourself

The following table links through to the nightly apk's. Choose the one which best matches your device. The nightly builds are compatible with devices running Froyo (2.2.X) or later.

Important Note[edit]

If your phone has internal and external storage, make sure to add /storage/sdcard# to your path directories. Otherwise navit won't be able to find them.

Compatible Android devices[edit]

The following tables list Android devices on which Navit has been tested. Please consider editing the table for your own device.

Useful information[edit]

Maps[edit]

There are two ways to get a map into Navit.

1. Press your device's Menu button, and choose Download first map. Maps will be greater than 50MB, so it's best to turn on your wifi.
2. Download a map from the Navit Map Extractor, connect your device to your pc, choose Select to copy files to/from your computer on the device and save the downloaded map as navitmap.bin into the navit folder on your device.

Advanced configuration[edit]

When Navit starts, a copy of /data/data/org.navitproject.navit/share/navit.xml matching your display resolution is extracted from the apk. If you have root permissions on your device, you can use this file as a starting point for a customized configuration. Otherwise unzip the apk file and use the xml file from the subdirectory res/raw/ which matches the display resolution (ldpi, mdpi or hdpi).You can save your configuration as /sdcard/navit/navit.xml which is then used instead of the one from the data directory.

• If you'd like to configure the initial view of the map (it should automatically center on your position if the on-board GPS has a fix) change the <navit center=... attribute to your home coordinates.

• See Configuration for additional settings.

Layouts[edit]

0606.at Android Layout[edit]

General[edit]

Description in german (HDPI and MDPI)

Features[edit]

• automatic navigation and tracking mode:
  • tracking mode provides coordinates, altitude, current street
  • navigation mode shows current street, next street, distance left, time left, next street, distance to the next maneuver, route indicators, altitude
• routing status: five icons show the current routing status.
• switch landscape/portrait mode: at the moment navit does not support automatic switching between portrait and landscape mode. Therefore there are included a landscape and a portrait optimized layout. Both of them work at every screen orientation. They are switchable manually by clicking the Button (see Description below)
• Optimized Menue (see Internal_GUI/Menu_configurations#0606.at Android GUI )
• The layouts shown in the screenshots below use the Mapnik layout optimised for small screens, available on this wiki.

Screenshots[edit]

Description[edit]

Download[edit]

Package (including OSD, Layout, POI Symbols, navit.xml) for

• MDPI (e.g. Galaxy II, screens with more than 800x480Px) download
• HDPI (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, screens with more than 1280x720Px) download

Installation[edit]

• get a recent version from Navit for Android
• get the Package (see Download), which fits to your screen resolution, copy it as zip file on you phone and extract it there with a filemanager in the folder /sdcard/navit
• Download a map from http://maps.navit-project.org/, rename it to navitmap.bin and put it into /sdcard/navit
• Enjoy!

Bugs, ToDo[edit]

• integrate odometer, compass and stopwatch
• sometimes GPS Status and Routing information are displayed in the menu #1057
• adjust 'show whole route' section
• adjust vehicle cursor

XML[edit]

HDPI Android Layout[edit]

Minimalistic Layout natively for Android phones. Landscape mode works too, but isn't that pretty.

Top[edit]

left to right:

• Height
  1. of sats
• speed
• distance
• time remaining
• current routing status.

Routing status[edit]

• blue: destination set
• black: idle state
• red: no route found
• orange: calculating state1
• yellow: calculating state2
• green: routing

Buttons[edit]

• F: show whole route and turn follow_cursor off
• A: autozoom on/off
• 3/2: 3:pitch 20, zoom 15, autozoom on, maprefresh set to 1 || 2: pitch 0, zoom 40, autzoom off, maprefresh set to 5
• +
• -

Bottom[edit]

left to right:

• distance until turn
• next maneouvre arrow
• name of following street.

To do[edit]

Switching between follow=1 and follow=5 in the 3d/2d-button does not work and I don't know why.

Download and Installation[edit]

Unzip the folder and put it in your /sdcard/navit folder. I recommend to install navit via F-Droid. Maps.xml allows you to easily add and remove maps. Cursor.xml only includes the cursor and mapnik.xml the map layout. I added the extra pngs, extract them to your navit folder if you want to (takes some time).

Layout by antenna

Android layout 800x480[edit]

Android layout designed for Archos 5 IT. It can be used in portrait and landscape mode.Files for layout are available here http://depositfiles.com/files/6y0mpbv2p[1]Place all files in /navit folder on your internal /sdcard

The item showing current speed (left-bottom) is clickable. It changes osd configuration.

An other android layout 800x480[edit]

An android layout for 800x480 device. It can be used in portrait and landscape mode

Description :

• On top, distance to destination and arrival time
• On left bottom, next direction
• On bottom : next street
• On right bottom : speed en speed limit (with speed warning)
• The radar warning appears on the left of speed (!!! UNTESTED !!!)

Download :

How To Download Map For Navit On Android Pc

• http://download.tuxfamily.org/jopen/navit/androidOSD.zip (content xml layout, png images and svg image (inskcape file).

Keyboard[edit]

By default Navit uses the Internal keyboard for menu items which require text input from the user, such as POI search. To use your default Android keyboard instead, just press and hold your device's Menu button until the keyboard pops up.

Launch via Google[edit]

When you click on a place in Google Maps, you can choose to navigate to it with Navit (assuming that there isn't already a default navigation app set).

How To Download Map For Navit On Android Tv

Bookmarks file[edit]

The bookmark.txt file is stored on the device at the location

and each line in the file looks like

In the default configuration, you will need root access on your device to be able to see this file. But if you move the app to your SD card it will be available at /sdcard/navit, where you may use any file explorer app or access it from a PC using USB Storage mode, via either USB cable or wifi connection, or even Bluetooth file transfer.

Another way without the need of SD card or root access is using the Android Debug Bridge. If you installed the Android SDK on your computer, the following command transfers the bookmark.txt file from your device to the current working directory:

How To Download Map For Navit On Android Computer

It is also possible to transfer the changed file back to your device by using adb push. See [2] for a more detailed description of the adb client.

How To Download Map For Navit On Android Windows 10

There is another option, which doesn't need your Android device to be rooted, nor ADB. You just need to have SSHDroid installed. Start it and connect to it with ssh (on windows you can use putty) and then do a cd /data/data/org.navitproject.navit/share/ from the comfort of your keyboard equipped machine. You can then read the bookmarks.txt file (if need be just cat it to display, then copy/paste or whatever, and cat text back into it or what not). Note that you can also get to the right location with terminal apps, so there may be plenty of ways to actually get at this file without root and/or adb.

Get the log for debugging problems[edit]

There are two options here:

• Install the Android SDK, run adb logcat and save the output to a file
• Install an app like Log Collector and send the data via mail

See also[edit]