QuickTrack Chicago - CTA Metra

Happy Holidays! Thank you for your continued support and use of my app after all these years. Safe travels to everyone in 2023 and beyond!
- Updated support for the latest version of Android
- Refreshed UI, support for dark mode!
- Tons of performance updates!
- Fix favorite reordering
- Fixed image caching
- Fixed Divvy map
- Fixed CTA alerts
..and more! Check release notes in app!

- Updated support for Android 10.0.
- Removed Street Panorama Views: Google started charging me to have this feature in my app, and as this app is free, I had to remove it.
- Metra: Fixed issue with weekend schedules not showing properly on lines such as Rock Island or UP-NW (among others).
- Pace: Fixed Pace tracking information and bus alerts from not coming through.

Updated support for Android 9.0. Dropping support for devices running anything below Android 5.0. Should fix crash on some Pie devices.
When viewing your results, select the train to see it the full schedule and expected arrival times at other stations.
The Purple Line has been updated with the Wilson station.
Fixed an issue viewing UP-NW and UP-N trains from OTC to Harvard or Kenosha when looking at the schedule on a Sunday.
Reordering your favorites should save the correct positions.

Hope you all had a great summer! It's been awhile since an update, but I finally added a long requested feature, Push Notifications for CTA and Metra!
Get the latest alerts pushed to your phone for your most used routes. Use the Notification Scheduler to set which days and what times you want to get notifications. All notifications are opt-in!
Send your feedback to [email protected] and be sure to check out the What's New section to get a list of all the changes.

Happy New Year! Lots of release notes this release so be sure to check out "What's New?" in app for more info.

Here's a high-level overview:

- Maps now cluster based on zoom level
- Reduced bandwidth due to Google Maps change
- New font style
- Fixes to missing Pace buses on map
- Animated bus icons for CTA and Pace maps. Refresh enabled on UI.
- Divvy works again, easier to read.

Small maintenance update

- Pace: Fixed issue with Pace data not showing up after a change to their system
- Pace: Save/Remove favorite will now work correctly.
- Pace: Route Details will display again.
- General: Tweaks to the UI to help new users of the app.
- General: You can disable image panning .

Small maintenance update

- Pace: Some new and unexpected Pace data was causing a crash, this has been fixed.

- Permissions: Permission requests should be more clear to the reasoning.

- Metra: In some cases, when you selected a station for the first time, you'd get a message saying you need to refresh and try again. This should no longer happen.

- CTA Train: Cermak-McCormick Place station now appears on the Green Line.

- General: Additional code cleanup from previous release.

Lots of updates! Be sure to check out "What's New?" in the app. Here are a few highlights

- Metra service alerts have been restored for all Metra lines, stations and trains.

- Metra: Trains that have departed will show if they're running late or on time and let you track the train position.

- CTA Bus: You can now change routes, directions and stop without going back to the main UI. When viewing your CTA results, use the drawer to change.

- Images are hidden from gallery by default

Metra shut down another data feed on 7/5/2016. This update addresses that problem and adds some additional train tracking features. Don't forget to rate my app if you find it useful. Thanks!

- Metra schedule data is now using a new data feed to determine if a particular train has a delay or is on-time
- You can now follow Metra trains on the map.
- Revamped Metra Map UI
- You can now get directions to any Metra station or train
- See What's New for more info!

Emergency update to address Metra blocking outside access to the data feed on 6/29/16 It's late and I'm tired! :)

Please read this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/quicktrackchicago/metra.notice.html

See What's New in the main app to read about additional changes.

- Added Splash Screen (YOUR SHORTCUT MAY DISAPPEAR, PLEASE RE-ADD)
- Overhaul of the Settings UI.
- Control the quality of the bus/train map locations to save bandwidth.
- Turn off auto downloading of bus/train locations and download them when you tap on the specific result to save additional bandwidth.
- Select a bus or to view the route, it will include every stop for the route, a bus stop lookup and the location of every active bus.
- See all existing train delays on Metra via drawer option.

- Added a slide up indicator to the UI on pre-5.0 devices to indicate you can collapse the tab/image on the main UI.
- Pace: You can now toggle between Arrival and Departure times.
- Metra: Tapping/clicking Metra results give you additional options
- Metra: Fixed a bug that would cause live Metra data to be out of order when the Metra schedule data is out of date.
- Metra: Fixed a bug that would cause 4.2-4.4 devices to not see the last Metra train scheduled for the day.
- See What's New

- Fixed issue that was preventing some people with Android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 from being able to open the app. Sorry to those affected.

- Fixed issue with CTA Train Alert icon not being always being set correctly based on the type of alert.

- Increased the size of the CTA Train Alert icon to match CTA Bus, Pace and Metra.

- Additional code cleanup and optimization

- Updated to support Android 6.0 Marshmallow
- Reduced memory usage with improved image memory management
- Updated Main UI for 5.0+ improvements
- Added support for Divvy
- Get additional information about every Pace route
- Fixed an issue with route alerts not displaying correctly
- Future Metra schedules will sort by time and not not train number
- Metra UI revamp
- Fixed a bug that would cause CTA train alerts not to display
- CTA Train Map PDF has been updated to the most recent available

- Fixed a bug on the drawer that would prevent you from opening the change date schedule dialog (it would open the map instead). Thanks for reporting it!

- Fixed a word-wrapping issue on 'Departing Soon'.

- Minor bug fixes related to the previous release upgrades

- Implemented new UI drawers (ie. like in Gmail) across CTA, Metra and Pace UIs along with several other UI changes.
- Now linked into the CTA Customer Alerts! CTA Trains now have alerts.
- CTA Trains are marked by color to make clear what's arriving.
- Redesigned Metra UI and UI cards.
- Redesigned Pace UI cards to match Metra, CTA style. Should be much more clear.
- Interfaced with the Pace Passenger Notices, like CTA and Metra, now get Pace alerts!

More details in "What's New?" in the app!

Metra schedule data can now be provided without pushing an app update.

Schedule data latest available from Metra (7/22/15).

Previous Schedule data is now sorted by departure times instead of train number.

Fixed crash with Metra Service Alerts if you ignored one with an unusual character.

Updated the images in rotation. You can force an update via options or wait for it to happen on its own.

Fixed a crash that was caused by the floating refresh button on CTA, Metra and/or Pace screens

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- The Hollywood stop is now marked to make clear this is the stop you should use if you're going to the Brookfield Zoo.
- Fixed a bug when you set the Purple Line - Howard (Northbound) as a favorite.
- Changed the behavior of UI for Metra: Now quickly see the list of stops for a specific train.
- Updated schedule data with latest Metra schedule data (6/26/15).
- General: Small tweaks and formatting