so to clarify a few things...

most Android user would be confused by 'locale'... Indeed, Google/Android changes the locale to your selection. Android, at least on my phone would show English (USA), but I can also pick English (UK).

So from an Android perspective Locale and Language is used interchangeably...

I know it is NOT the same but Android does not even offer me a away to set a language. All I can do is set the Locale.

Just how the system works.

As for my personal way of using Android and GCDroid: everything is set to English (US) and always has been, including GCDroid. INCLUDING the date/time format. I guess after 10+ years living in the country you get used to it.

One problem is: how would I offer the format? I need different styles, know in java as SHORT, MEDIUM and LONG. So offering the user a real choice for MM/DD/YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY is only ONE format (short). How about the long format (which spells out the month), how would the user pick that?

One reason why no app really offers that I guess are these challenges...

The only option I would have is to let the user select a LOCALE that is used only for formatting date/time.

But then, which locales to offer the user? The same like language? So you can be LUCKY that maybe Germany has the format you like. But that would be very confusing, since you don't want German date format but Swedish instead?

I clearly can not offer all the world languages and/or formats.

So at least one step in the right direction is to honor the format settings of the phone.

Maybe with the option to use the format of the selected locale within GCDroid.

But that would not help you since you have your phone using a format you don't like!

I am open for ideas, just don;t see what is doable besides what I mentioned.

Applying it is not much work on my end, it's more about offering a way to the user to pick it.

yes you can not change the date format. my point is, why would I use a different format in GCDroid than your native phone format.

Currently when selecting English I set the whole app to US, thus US date format. I will change that to keep the date format from the device. No matter what language you pick.

I think that makes more sense.

That also means, no option is needed. I will also detect if 12/24h is selected and GCDroid will show date/time just like everything else on your phone. Even when you select another language.

Does that make sense?

have been thinking about it... maybe for date/time I should simply always stick to device formatting. no matter what language is selected.

why would a user want different date/time format in GCDroid vs their phone/tablet?

might make it;s way into V2.0.0 (for sure in a future update)

please email me directly. maybe also send the the 2 databases in question.

it works on my end but sometimes something in the data could be the reason....

Setting English will default everything to English/USA. The way Android works is that you basically pick a 'country'. Using Default does not set a language and device date style is used.
GCDroid still decides if a long or short format should be used but the look and feel is defined by the device. English is the default language of the app and will be used if no other supported language can be found.

Anyways, it works as expected, BUT we could open a new request to have option to select date and time format (eg. DD.MM.YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY and AM/PM vs 24h).

If you feel this would help please open a new feature request. Closing this bug report since it works as intended under the given limitations.

once I support GPX export then this will come...

can I see screenshot? what device? resolution?

on my screen I am not even using half the space!

I don't see why I would sort that list. too much work, too little benefit.

Why would you sort it by biggest list first?

I am not loading Friends logs, simply filtering them out.

Something this is not part of the 'ALL' view can clearly not be part of the 'SOME' view.

The only other app that shows friends logs behaves the same way...