KMLZ to Earth Pro
KMLZ to Earth Pro allows you to view KML and KMZ files on your Android device using Google Earth with advertising. If you are unable to view a KML or KMZ file or attachment in Google Earth, then this is the app that you need!
KMLZ to Earth Pro allows you to browse through your local files to select a KML or KMZ file to display in Google Earth. It also allows you to view your saved email attachments in Google Earth.
In the Explorer activity, if you browse to a directory containing images with location information you can also:
- Tap the file icon to view the photo closely
- Tap the file name to create a KMZ file
- Tap "View images to create KMZ" to create a KMZ file with the locations and images from multiple photos
In your email application, save the KML or KMZ file, and then tap it again to choose to view it with KMLZ to Earth Pro.
Since Google Earth for Android doesn't seem to have published limits on file sizes, your success with files larger than 4MB may vary. Large files cause Google Earth to to load slowly, or if they are too large, not display them entirely. If this occurs, try to reduce the size of the images used or the number of images selected to create smaller KMZ files.
The size of the images shown in Google Earth decreases progressively as the total size of images are selected, in order to try to keep the total file size small enough to view on Google Earth for Android.
When creating a KMZ file, each image containing location information is shown as a thumbnail, along with the image name, time taken, resolution and size. Thumbnails can be tapped for a larger preview of the image. All, none, or individual files can be selected to create a KMZ file from images in one directory.
DO NOT PUT SPACES OR OTHER STRANGE CHARACTERS IN FILE NAMES! LETTER, NUMBER, UNDERSCORE, PERIOD, AND HYPHEN CHARACTERS ALLOWED. ANY OTHER CHARACTERS WILL BE REPLACED WITH UNDERSCORES.
File names must end in ".jpg", ".kml", ".kmz" to be visible to view in KMLZ to Earth Pro, and capitalization does not matter.
Files that you select to view are copied to the "Home" directory, typically /mnt/sdcard/kmlz. WARNING! Any file that does not end in ".kml" or ".kmz" will be deleted automatically from this directory, or when you choose to use Menu, Clear Home, and confirm.
The Home button will take you quickly to the /mnt/sdcard/kmlz directory (or a similar path) to see which files you have previously viewed, and view them again.
This app can't be set as default for any action, if you try, then it will reset itself. This ensures you the choice of action always and prevents a possible undesirable loop.
If experiencing problems with Google Earth, use the Menu, Manage Earth, and either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache. Clear Cache is very helpful to get accurate results if you are testing the same file name multiple times.
Likewise, if experiencing problems with KMLZ to Earth, use the Menu, Manage KMLZ, and either Force Stop, Clear Data, or Clear Cache.
This application runs a web server on your device at
http://localhost:8001/
to serve pages from it's "Home" directory to Google Earth. In order to do this, it will have a running process in the background. A notification will be issued to remind you that this process is running. If you view the notification, then you can stop this background web server process. Also, from the application, pressing back will allow you to terminate the application and the background web server process.
Permissions
- full network access
- modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- view network connections
- test access to protected storage
Comments
- I strongly recommend this app for anyone aiming to leverage GE on Android without writing their own web server. The solution is as elegant as it is effective. Regarding the review from "Jim" that describes "brown mud" in the GE view: I experienced this same problem but was able to resolve it by carefully checking/revising my source KML and KMZ files. In my experience, the problem wasn't with the KMLZ application. Suspect the problems are caused by GE/Android's truncation of KML source files or possibly because my file referenced KML elements not yet supported by GE/Android. In all cases, the errors I found did not manifest in the "desktop" version of GE, only on Android devices. So, I've learned to ensure that all my KML/KMZ files conform to Google's standard for GE/Android. Again, this wasn't a problem with the KMLZ application.
- I strongly recommend this app for anyone aiming to leverage GE on Android without writing their own web server. The solution is as elegant as it is effective. Regarding the review from "Jim" that describes "brown mud" in the GE view: I experienced this same problem but was able to resolve it by carefully checking/revising my source KML and KMZ files. In my experience, the problem wasn't with the KMLZ application. Suspect the problems are caused by GE/Android's truncation of KML source files or possibly because my file referenced KML elements not yet supported by GE/Android. In all cases, the errors I found did not manifest in the "desktop" version of GE, only on Android devices. So, I've learned to ensure that all my KML/KMZ files conform to Google's standard for GE/Android. Again, this wasn't a problem with the KMLZ application.
- I needed to be able to create a path in Google Earth on my Windows computer, drop it into a KML file, and display it in Google Earth for Android, on my tablet, for use in the field. Google Earth for Android states that it can open KML files, but in practice I couldn't get it to work – it dutifully tried to open the path, then it had this behavior where it simply closed itself. Frustrating. Out of ideas, I purchased KMLZ, and immediately all of my problems went away – everything is working great now. The little app has other features I'm sure I'll use later. But for now, I give them five stars for simply doing the job without a hitch, and allowing me to move forward to other things.
- I needed to be able to create a path in Google Earth on my Windows computer, drop it into a KML file, and display it in Google Earth for Android, on my tablet, for use in the field. Google Earth for Android states that it can open KML files, but in practice I couldn't get it to work – it dutifully tried to open the path, then it had this behavior where it simply closed itself. Frustrating. Out of ideas, I purchased KMLZ, and immediately all of my problems went away – everything is working great now. The little app has other features I'm sure I'll use later. But for now, I give them five stars for simply doing the job without a hitch, and allowing me to move forward to other things.
- I can download and open kmz files on my iPad and Gingerbread Android phone, but they will not open on my Jelly Bean Nexus 7. I haven't had the time to investigate the reason, but with this app provided a quick and effective solution. I can now open the kmz files on the Nexus 7. I am not sure that I needed the pro version, but it's the least that I can do since this solved my problem so quickly and easily.
- I can download and open kmz files on my iPad and Gingerbread Android phone, but they will not open on my Jelly Bean Nexus 7. I haven't had the time to investigate the reason, but with this app provided a quick and effective solution. I can now open the kmz files on the Nexus 7. I am not sure that I needed the pro version, but it's the least that I can do since this solved my problem so quickly and easily.
- Works fine.
- Works fine.
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