This is a native android implementation of the live bus departures map from the MCA website site.

It works by displaying the bus stops around the Bristol area. If you click on one of the stops, the map will centre on the stop and fetch the departure times.

Please note that the first time you load the app, it will download the bus stop database. This might well take several minutes! There are over 1700 bus stops so to reduce the load on the device, I set a maximum number of stops to display at any one time. If you exceed this (for instance, by zooming out), the icons change to a '?' indicating there are more then one bus stop located there). You have to zoom back in before you can click on the stop to get bus times.

Please be aware that we haven't requested the use of this data on an android phone from the bus company yet. Until then the application is available on request only.

For a more technical analysis of the code, please refer to this blog posting.