Hi HQ team!
Since last Friday, we are getting more and more feedbacks on the French geocaching group on Facebook about the "Navigate to a geocache" feature that is not working anymore on Android.
Symptoms:
When we press the car icon on a cache listing [IMG1], Google Maps is launched but display an error message "No result for 49,4199,0,2257" [IMG2]
If we replace the first and the third commas by dots, it works.
I think that it's because you made a change in the latest Android version to use the decimal separator setup by the language phone settings.
But as a result, the coordinates with commas are not recognized anymore by Google Maps.
How to reproduce the issue:
1) Go to Android settings > System Settings > Language & input > Language > Add language
2) Add French (or German or Spanish...) and set it by default
3) Launch Geocaching app and go to a cache details page
4) Click on the car icon
5) Google Maps is launched but display an error "No result for X,x,Y,y"
Expected result:
=> Google Maps navigation should tell the directions to the PZ
I tried several languages on my phone to help resolving this issue, it works well in English but it is broken when you use a non-English language (tested and broken in French, German and Spanish at least...)
According to Wikipedia, all the green and red countries on the following map should have the bug (about half of the world ;-) ) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:DecimalSeparator.svg
Product: Geocaching official app
Platform: Android
Version: v6.9.0 released last Friday (17/08/2018)
Reproducibility: yes, always
Bug confirmed on: Samsung Galaxy S8 (with android 8.0.0), Huawei P20 and more...
Attached files: 1) the button to launch "Navigate to a geocache" 2) the Google Maps error with the "comma" problem 3) About page
I hope it can be fixed soon.
Do not hesitate to ask me if you need more information or to test anything.