Is there any type of navigation GPS program for the Windows Surface Tablet

[Mark Gobble]

Are there any programs or apps that I could use on the Windows Surface Tablet?

[Richard Woodcock]

Not really answering your question, but you might try emulating Android on your PC, and use Avare.

I think there was some discution about that, and I'll bet someone has attempted it.

Rich

[Glenn Meyer]

There's a problem with that. The android x86 installation, more of a distro than an emulator, doesn't appear to allow an alternative to pinch zoom. Pinch zoom of course cannot work on a PC that doesn't support touch screens, and if the android-x86 porters have included a single-touch alternative in their distro, I have yet to find it. However, IF you have a Windows 8.x machine with touch screen, you might try installing VirtualBox on it, then installing android-x86 on VirtualBox. That MIGHT get you multi-touch emulated Android, on which you could install avare. Or, if you have a touch screen computer you don't mind dual booting, you might try installing the Android-x86 distro on it. It installs pretty much like any linux distro. Here's the porting page, with enough documentation to drown in: http://www.android-x86.org/. And here's the download page for all VirtualBox versions, including the Windows version: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads .

Glenn

[Dean Gibson]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 11:27:03 AM UTC-7, Glenn Meyer wrote:

.... However, IF you have a Windows 8.x machine with touch screen, you might try installing VirtualBox on it, then installing android-x86 on VirtualBox. That MIGHT get you multi-touch emulated Android, on which you could install avare....
 

You could also try Andyroid.  I briefly used it on Win8.1, with good success for the app I wanted to test.  I'm not sure, but I thought it supported pinch-zoom.

However, cockpits can sometimes be a hostile place (eg, turbulence) for devices, and Android tablets are a fair bit cheaper than MS Surfaces (I have both).  Just my opinion ...