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Hey Everyone,
I am a huge fan of the site and a first-time poster here. I just built an Offline Fare Finder app for Android that can check fares without an internet connection (and even show you cheaper routes close by). I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions (especially if there are any mistakes or things that I have missed)!
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.greenfrogs.tfl_fare_finder
It just supports Adult fares for now but when I have some more time to query the TFL API I plan to expand this.
Thanks!
Hi,
I did take a look at this at the time. I quite like the concept, but I am a bit nervous about storing the fares from a point in time without knowing whether they have been updated. Have you run updates against the fares changes made on June 8th, and the emergency corrections from June 29th?
The journey I checked was Oxford Circus to Southend Central where both fares are wrong on your app.
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the feedback and for flagging the outdated data. Right now, I run a job at the start of each month to pull the latest fares (this takes about 3 days) and then I manually trigger an app store update. Ultimately, I would like to decouple data updates from app releases so I can refresh fares without requiring a new build.
In the meantime, I have added an “updated” timestamp to the bottom of the home screen so users can see when the data was updated. Down the road, I plan to include an online fetch option to pull fares directly from TFL whenever the device is connected.
Google should approve these updates sometime on the 8th July, let me know if you have any other thoughts!
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