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Modern FOSS Compass and Navigation app without Ads, IAP or Tracking

14 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 7 stories, 7 comments · first 2025-08-08 · latest 2026-03-28

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  1. …done much research about it (the same as you've mentioned here) related to OSM vector maps. See:( https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases/tag/v1.1.4 ), for Android, the available map rendering libs like Maplibre-Native are an…
    comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-15 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)
  2. …has been important to me, whether it’s shipping regular releases with real improvements ( https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/releases ) or writing about Android development and FOSS alongside the project. I really appreciate the…
    comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-14 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)
  3. …there are also users who aren’t familiar with open source or compiling apps themselves, like here: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/48 . For them, donations are a simple way to support the project, and they’re definitely…
    comment by nativeforks · 2026-01-14 · in Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)
  4. This GitHub issue tracks https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/52 , new feature requests, improvements, and upcoming features. Feel free to suggest improvements.
    comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-14 · in Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Compass and Navigation App
  5. …reproducible build, izzy says >>Not necessarily "your fault" – baseline often has such issues: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/90 Seems like he is talking about the developer being responsible for that also!
    comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-13 · in F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
  6. …Catima example: https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608 MBCompass case: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/88
    comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-13 · in F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
  7. This GitHub issue tracks https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/52 , new feature requests, improvements, and upcoming features. Feel free to suggest improvements.
    comment by nativeforks · 2025-08-08 · in Show HN: MBCompass – FOSS Android and Compass App