Customizing Icons & Forms

This is a guide on how to customize Mapeo Mobile and Desktop for versions 4.0.0-beta and above, and the instructions may be different than earlier versions.

Creating a Mapeo Settings file

If you want to have a custom configuration for the tags and icons, see the guide to creating a Mapeo Settings file.

A .mapeosettings file is a tar file, similar to a zip file. You can see the contents of the file by changing the file extention to .tar and using any application that can extract tar files.

If you would like to help improve this process, contributions are actively welcomed!

Testing presets

Before loading your preset configuration file into the phone, use mapeo-settings lint to test your files to make sure they will compile on the phone.

Run the following command if you are using the default template.

npm test
...
Presets valid

Mapeo Mobile

Now, you are ready to load your settings to Mapeo Mobile.

  1. Plug in the device to your computer using a USB cable.
  2. Set the mode for usb debugging on the phone to 'Transfer Files'.
  3. In the terminal, typing adb devices should give you the following output:
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
ZY223D4VVS  device
  1. Build presets with mapeo-settings-builder:
$ npm run build
  1. Go to the build directory where your presets live...
$ cd build

If your device is not found or is unauthorized, make sure it is plugged in all the way and then see this troubleshooting guide.

  1. Now, you'll need to place the presets folder in the appropriate directory on the Android device using adb push:
adb push ./my-presets-v1.0.0/* /sdcard/Android/data/com.mapeo/files/presets/default
  1. Check that the files are available on the device by using the shell:
$ adb shell ls /sdcard/Android/data/com.mapeo/files/presets/default
VERSION
icons
icons.json
icons.png
icons.svg
metadata.json
presets.json
style.css
translations.json

Mapeo Desktop

Automated import

Mapeo Desktop supports importing .mapeosettings files in the user interface.

After you've created your settings file, you can import it by navigating to File->Import Configuration....

Import Configuration Mapeo Desktop

Manual import

You can also extract the .mapeosettings file as a tar file into the following directory:

USERDATA/Mapeo/presets/default

  • USERDATA is the per-user application data directory, which by default points to:

    • %APPDATA% on Windows
    • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config on Linux
    • ~/Library/Application Support on macOS

This folder (default) expects these files directly in under this default folder (i.e. no sub-folder with a different name):

presets.json
icons.svg
etc...

Help wanted

  • document more clearly or link to documentation on how to move folders into an android device
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