Subsurface-mobile USER MANUAL
Manual author: Willem Ferguson
Version 1.1, September 2016
Welcome as a user of Subsurface, advanced dive logging software with -extensive infrastructure to describe, organize, interpret and print scuba +
Manual authors: Willem Ferguson, Dirk Hohndel
Version 2, October 2017
Welcome as a user of Subsurface and Subsurface-mobile, advanced dive logging +software with extensive infrastructure to describe, organize, and interpret scuba and free dives. Subsurface offers many advantages over other similar software solutions, including compatibility with Windows, Mac-OS/X, Linux (many distributions), Android and iOS. In addition, Subsurface is open-source software that allows downloading dive -information from most dive computers.
1. Introducing Subsurface-mobile
Subsurface-mobile is an extension of Subsurface which -runs on Android smartphone and tablet devices and is a -tool for viewing or sharing dive information at dive sites where a larger -computer is not useful. Subsurface-mobile for Android also allows -the gathering of GPS locations where dives are performed -(Subsurface-mobile for iOS currently does not support GPS functionality).
Subsurface-mobile allows you to enter and save dive information -using a mobile device. Most users of Subsurface-mobile typically use the -mobile app as an extension to the laptop/desktop version of Subsurface. -This allows the storage of dive logs on the Internet sharing them -between the mobile and the desktop versions. But Subsurface-mobile can -be used independently of Subsurface and does not require the use of -cloud storage. -While the desktop version of Subsurface shows much more detailed information +
Subsurface-mobile is a more limited mobile version of Subsurface +aimed at Android and iOS smartphone and tablet devices, allowing viewing, entering, sharing, and storage of dive information at dive sites where a larger +computer is not useful. While the desktop version of Subsurface shows much more detailed information for each dive, the mobile version allows a more accessible dive log on a dive trip, useful for proving dive experience to dive shops or to review -previous dives.
Subsurface-mobile allows you to:
Subsurface-mobile allows:
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-Download existing dive log information from the Internet. +Download and storage of dive log information using the Subsurface cloud.
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-View this information on a mobile device. +Viewing this information on a mobile device.
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-Edit many of the dive log data fields, e.g. divemaster, buddy, - equipment or notes about a dive. +Manually creating and adding new dive records to your dive log.
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-Manually create and add new dive records to your dive log. +Download dive data directly from many dive computers.
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-Store the updated dive log in the Subsurface cloud storage. +Editing many of the dive log data fields, e.g. divemaster, buddy, + equipment or notes relating to a dive.
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-Record, store and apply GPS positions of dives (Android only). +Recording, storing and applying GPS positions of dives (Android only).
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-View the localities of recorded GPS positions and of dives +Viewing the localities of recorded GPS positions and of dives on a map.
These items are discussed in greater detail in the following text. -What Subsurface-mobile does not support (at this time) is downloading -dive data directly from a dive computer. That still needs to be done using -Subsurface on a desktop or laptop computer. We are investigating ways -to support downloading from a subset of the supported dive computers on -Android devices, but this is not yet ready for testing.