A custom mobile app makes it possible to offer ALTAGAMA GPS GPS tracking features with a company's own identity and configuration. This option is useful for tracking providers, integrators, logistics companies, and field service teams that need a branded mobile experience for their users.
In this update, we renewed the foundation of custom mobile apps, improved phone tracking, and expanded compatibility with recent Android versions. The result is a more current and stable app for viewing locations and receiving operational information away from the office.
What a ALTAGAMA GPS custom mobile app is
ALTAGAMA GPS can prepare an Android or iOS application connected to a tracking account. The company defines information such as the app name, identifier, icon, logo, and available visual elements. It then selects the required capabilities and receives a customized project for the remaining publication process.
This avoids starting with an empty application and rebuilding the basic connection to ALTAGAMA GPS. The responsible team receives a foundation prepared with its account information and can continue with compilation, testing, and distribution through the appropriate channels.
Customization does not change ALTAGAMA GPS's main purpose: locations, route histories, alerts, and device status continue to be managed through the platform. The mobile app provides another way to access these capabilities and present them under the organization's identity.
Options based on the purpose of the app
When requesting the application, users can select the functional level that fits the project. The options range from basic mobile access to an experience with phone location, maps, and notifications.
- Basic application: provides mobile access to the ALTAGAMA GPS experience with the identity defined by the company.
- Phone tracking: lets a mobile device act as a location source when the required permissions and settings are available.
- Compatible maps: adds the geographic view needed to review locations and routes from the application.
- Push notifications: delivers alerts to the phone after the app and notification service have been properly configured.
Each option has its own requirements. Phone tracking requires location permission, while maps and notifications require the corresponding credentials and authorizations. ALTAGAMA GPS requests the applicable information according to the selected option, helping reduce omissions during preparation.
Updated compatibility for Android applications
The custom Android application was updated for Android 15 and API level 35. This renewal helps keep the project aligned with current operating system expectations and publication requirements for modern applications.
We also improved performance and corrected mobile tracking behavior. The goal is for the application to process location data and present the ALTAGAMA GPS experience more reliably on compatible devices.
For a company that already uses a custom app, the update provides a newer foundation for preparing another build. For a new project, it reduces the initial work needed to adapt GPS tracking to current Android versions.
GPS tracking from a phone
When tracking is enabled, a phone can send locations to ALTAGAMA GPS and appear as a device in the account. Authorized users can then view its position, review available history, and connect that information with other tracking tools in the platform.
This can support field service teams, commercial visits, deliveries, temporary assignments, and other activities where a location needs to be shared without installing an additional physical tracker.
Results depend on coverage, phone accuracy, power-saving settings, and the location permissions granted by the user. Organizations should explain the purpose of tracking, apply their privacy policies, and use this feature only with the appropriate authorization.
Maps, route history, and notifications in a mobile experience
Map integration lets users locate supervised devices and review the geographic context of an operation from a phone or tablet. A coordinator can check a position during a site visit, review a route while traveling, or confirm that a team has arrived at a destination.
Push notifications complement this workflow by delivering alerts to the mobile device. Depending on the alerts and permissions configured in ALTAGAMA GPS, users can learn about an important event without keeping the application open at all times.
Together, maps and notifications support a mobile workflow: receive the alert, open the application, locate the device, and review the available information before coordinating a response.
Brand identity for GPS tracking providers and integrators
A company can present the app with its own name, icon, logo, and icon background color. It can also use a custom access address when that capability is configured for the account.
This experience is especially valuable for providers offering GPS tracking to their own customers. Instead of delivering a generic application, they can maintain a recognizable identity during sign-in and mobile tracking.
Delivery of the customized project also lets the responsible team manage publication. Store reviews, certificates, commercial descriptions, screenshots, privacy policies, and future maintenance remain the responsibility of the organization distributing the app.
A real-world field service application
A maintenance company has technicians visiting several locations throughout the day. The company prepares an app with its identity and enables phone tracking. Each technician installs the application, grants the permissions established by the organization, and appears as an authorized device in ALTAGAMA GPS.
The coordinator uses the map to see which technician is closest to a new request, reviews the necessary history, and assigns the visit. The technician can access the same mobile experience to review permitted information. When a relevant alert occurs, a notification can help the team review it quickly.
The custom app therefore connects the company's identity with a location workflow that already uses ALTAGAMA GPS tracking, history, and alert capabilities.
Benefits for customers
- Less initial development: start from a project connected to ALTAGAMA GPS and adapted to the supplied information.
- Branded experience: the app name, icon, logo, and access can align with the organization.
- Mobile operations: supervisors, technicians, and authorized customers can review information without a desktop computer.
- Options for each need: choose basic access, phone tracking, maps, or push notifications.
- More recent compatibility: the updated Android foundation helps prepare apps for current devices and requirements.
Technical summary for integrators
- Customized Android and iOS projects are generated according to the selected application type.
- Configuration supports an app name, identifier, icon, logo, color, and access address.
- Functional variants include basic access, phone tracking, compatible maps, and push notifications.
- The Android version in this update targets Android 15 and API level 35.
- The organization responsible for the app must complete testing, signing, publication, and maintenance.
- Tracking and notifications depend on device permissions, connectivity, and account configuration.
Explore GPS tracking, history, alerts, reports, and customization in the ALTAGAMA GPS plans and features.