Author Archives: Meir Tsvi

Waze for WP7 – XNA here we come

After the awesome work that Eran Gonen has done on the entire dialog system and configuration screens the only pain left for proper version was the map movement. Waze works in its own special way of rendering the map. Each … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – yet another “It’s about time” feature

Up until now, when you wanted to browse the map you would scroll it around. Problem was that after you put your finger up I had the MouseLeftButtonUp event skipped and therefore caused incomplete experience where you drag and drag just to … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – Hebrew support – finally

This post assumes you installed some package that provides you with Hebrew support. I got to the point where I had just about enough time to finally debug the hebrew issues and motivation to do it as some of the addresses I typed recently … Continue reading

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Smooth Sounds

Up until now there was a delay between direction instructions words, e.g. “within” “800” “meters” “turn right”. Each word was contained in a separate mp3 file in order to maximize flexibility in direction variations. Problem was that there was big … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – Java to CSharp

OK, so I have Waze and Cibyl source code and all I need to do is make Cibyl yield C# code instead of Java. Simple, right? Well, not exactly. Cibyl dictates you to work in two layers: the Java bytecode … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – screenshots

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Additional speed improvements

I just found out that when calling roadmap_log, there’s a lot of computing going on (checking log level, preparing the timestamp etc.) just to get to the point of not doing anything since we are on Release mode and calling … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – Downloads

Source Code https://github.com/meirtsvi/WazeWP7 Version 0.9.9.8 (10/04/2013) – Reviving Live Tiles for WP8 Courtesy of Eli Ofek: – You can set Home and Work favorites and their arrival ETA will show up on Waze live tile. – Fixed a bug for honoring back … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – Deep dive into Cibyl

On my last post I introduced Cibyl as the tool I’m going to use for converting Waze to C#. Before talking about C#, let’s first learn how Cibyl converts C/C++ code to Java. Let’s take the following simple program and see … Continue reading

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Waze for WP7 – the journey begins

As Microsoft employee you are entitled to get Windows Phone device. As a happy owner of iPhone I wanted to have similar experience and tools before moving to different device. What i need before converting: 1. Hebrew support – there … Continue reading

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