WalkersGuide
Free navigational aid for the blind and visual impaired based on OpenStreetMap
| AppID: | org.walkersguide.android |
| Author: | Eric Scheibler |
| License: | GPL-3.0-only |
| Donation: | |
| InRepoSince: | 2023-03-04 |
| LastRepoUpdate: | 2025-11-21 |
| LastAppUpdate: | 2025-11-19 |
| LastVersion: | 3.2.3 |
| Categories: | Navigation |
| APK source: | Github |
| Google Play: | Check if it's there |
WalkersGuide is a navigational aid primarily intended for blind and visual impaired pedestrians. It calculates routes and shows nearby points of interest. The project consists of an Android app and a server. The latter performs the route calculation.
The map data is provided by OpenStreetMap, a project to create a free map of the world.
Main app features:
- Calculate routes optimized for blind and visually impaired users
- Explore layout of intersections
- Show and track nearby POI
- Simulate any street address
- Import GPX files
- Record your own routes
The application is fully accessible with Android's screen reader Talkback.
Please visit https://www.walkersguide.org for more information.
WhatsNew:
- Updated POI categories
- Added real-time departure predictions to departures and trip details
- Improved compass and location update performance
- Updated direction arrow design
- Added support for Android 16
Anti-Features: NonFreeNet(this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ Some sources of traffic data are non-free.
While you can download the APKs here directly, you should preferably use an F-Droid client so the app stays up-to-date on your device. Some clients have this repo enabled by default, e.g. Neo Store, Droid-ify, or, of course, the IzzyOnDroid client by Sunil. With others (like the official client) you'll have to add this repo manually (see the hint on top of the package list for how to do that).
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Version 3.2.3 (2025-11-21) 
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standalone efficient collections.
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AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
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display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
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provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
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support newer Android features on older Android versions.
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standalone efficient collections.
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create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
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AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
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an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
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a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
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AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
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display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
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provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
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implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
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AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
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animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
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AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
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Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
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AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
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replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
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library to help with material design guidelines.
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a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
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common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
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