GPSTest, an application to test your GPS

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GPSTest, caratteristiche principali

for Android
Open source
free
allows you to test your GPS by receiving a lot of useful information

Today's application can be useful both to those who are curious to know how their GPS works and which satellites it is connected to, and to all those people who perhaps have some problems with GPS and thanks to this tool they might be able to understand a little about it. ' moreover.

GPSTest in fact, as the name already makes us understand, it allows you to test your GPS on any Android smartphone. To work it requires some permissions such as internet connection, running in the background and obviously full access to localization. Thanks to these permissions the application will be able to tell you which satellites you are connected to with a lot of interesting and curious information.

GPSTest

In addition to all the information on the satellites, the application also integrates a compass to orient yourself and better understand where the satellites to which we are connected are located and which are used for your geolocation.

This is not a field in which we are particularly experts, but we are sure that this applies to someone GPSTest may be very useful, we will leave part of the description above translated for you F-Droid:

GPSTest displays real-time information about satellites in view of the device. An essential open-source testing tool for platform engineers, developers and power users.

Supports:

• GPS (USA Navstar)
• GLONASS (Russia)
• QZSS (Japan)
• BeiDou/COMPASS (China)
• Galileo (European Union)
• Various SBAS satellite booster systems (e.g., GAGAN, Anik F1, Galaxy 15, Inmarsat 3-F2, Inmarsat 4-F3, SES-5).

GLONASS satellites are represented as squares in the Sky view. Americans NAVSTAR are represented as circles, Galileo and the QZSS and SBAS satellites are shown as triangles and finally BeiDou satellites are represented as pentagons.

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