The previous blog post was about the “normal way” of using GraalVM native images. In this blog post I use it to run Java code on Android without the usual limitations of “Android Java”. I.e. the Java code can be JDK 11 and include arbitrary libraries which is usually not possible when using Dalvik or […]
This blog post is about the experience I made when compiling the GraphHopper routing engine to a native executable using GraalVM. The GraphHopper routing engine is an open source project that uses the road network from OpenStreetMap and is able to calculate routes from A to B very fast and offers other features like isochrone […]
At GraphHopper we regularly receive requests on how to build a navigation app with the GraphHopper Directions API. At the moment our customers either have no turn-by-turn navigation or rely on third party apps like Google Maps or devices from TomTom. The biggest disadvantage in this case is the mismatch of estimated time of arrival […]
Today we are happy to announce the new release of our open source road routing engine GraphHopper 0.7. It includes many improvements as well as a new round trip calculation for the flexibility mode. A big thanks for this release goes to all of our contributors and translators! To become a contributor see our contributing […]
Today we’re proud to announce the first stable release of GraphHopper! After over a year of busy development we finally reached version 0.1! GraphHopper is a fast and Open Source road routing engine written in Java based on OpenStreetMap data. It handles the full planet on a 15GB server but is also scales down and […]
