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Brut Google Maps v4.6.0.4686-brut17 (freeware)
Requirements: Android
Overview: Get the latest Google Maps and never need a paper map again.


Features:

• worldwide navigation using Google Maps Directions
• map tiles caching on SD card
• force-enable MT. If you're on Eclair or some custom Donut and don't have multitouch zooming, then maybe this will enable it.
• force-enable Buzz feature
• fix for map shift issue in China
• option to hide zoom buttons
• installable on non-rooted devices
• could be installed beside original app

Credits:

• canadiancow for starting a brainstorm; an idea to use maps directions as backend for navigation; great Nav Launcher app; helping and support
• TAPP for enabling "Navigate" button; first version for non-rooters
• acamar for his research on map shift issue in China
• many, many people for testing it, complaining , helping others, etc.
• Google for making this great app and service and for not sending C&D to me so far

Variants:

This mod consists of many independent changes and some of them may be good or bad for some people. Unfortunately not all changes could be configured at runtime, so we need several apk files to let people choose what they want.

There are 3 packs of changes:

• -brut - it's a BrutMod itself: international navi, map caching, etc. All of these changes are configurable at runtime.
• -renamed - Android package name was changed from original com.google.android.apps.maps to brut.googlemaps . See "Package name changing" below if you don't know, what this means.
• -tagged - all icons in the launcher, widgets, etc. were tagged with red "BRUT" sign, all icon names were suffixed with "[brut]". It's to distinguish modded and original GM if you have installed both.

Then we could create several variants of this mod with different combinations of changes, but fortunately only 3 of them actually make sense: -brut, -brut-renamed and -brut-renamed-tagged.

Note: I know this may be confusing for some people, who get used to brut.googlemaps as normal package name for this mod and com.google.android.apps.maps as "stockified" modification of it. You should take into account that starting point is original GM with original package name, so com.google.android.apps.maps is actually "normal" and brut.googlemaps is modded/renamed one.

brut17 (07.11.10)

• updated GM to version 4.6.0.4686
• from now GM is released in 3 variants: -brut, -brut-renamed and -brut-renamed-tagged
• added an option to choose map cache format - AndNav is a default, but old one is also supported
• added support for zipped map cache
• app directory is always /sdcard/brut.googlemaps - it does not depend on package name
• readded es_MX language
• removed Vector map test
• fixed some ContextNotSet warnings

More Info:

Code: Select allhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630887

Download Instructions: Just download & install.
maps4.6.0.4686-brut
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30162397
http://hotfile.com/dl/80925306/935db2a/ ... t.apk.html

maps4.6.0.4686-brut-renamed
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30162769
http://hotfile.com/dl/80925887/e14ff06/ ... d.apk.html

maps4.6.0.4686-brut-renamed-tagged
http://www.filesonic.com/file/30163405
http://hotfile.com/dl/80926299/a2b0b6f/ ... d.apk.html

[AFAngryWarrior]

Nice release! Cracker reward $25WRZ + $9WRZ mirrors; Category: GPS

the renamed and tagged versions are less stable.

Best way is to uninstall original version by Titanium Backup, then install the -brut version.