Serge's World

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been creating a family tree viewer for Android as a hobby project, and have reached a point now, where it is in a useful state. Therefore, Arbor Familiae is now available on the Google Play store.

I have open-sourced the project, and released the app as a completely free app on the store. The source code can be found on my Github account at https://github.com/sjmeunier/arbor-familiae.

The app allows you to import GEDCOM files into the application, and multiple GEDCOMs can be imported into separate trees.

With an imported tree, the follwing features are available

• Tree Chart - a chart showing all ancestors up to the configured number of generations of the active individual in a tree form, and also includes spouses and children of the active individual.
• Fan Chart - shows the ancestors or descendants of the active individual up to the configured number of generations, as a fan chart
• Relationship Chart - shows the relationship between the root individual and the active individual.
• Heatmap - shows the locations for birth, death, burial and baptism events for the ancestors of the active individual mapped as a heatmap using Google Maps.
• Detailed Biography - shows detailed information on the active individual, including birth, death, parents, souses and children, as well as any notes or sources included in the original GEDCOM for the individual.

I will be posting more technical blog posts in the future, highlighting some of the interesting technical problems I solved while developing this app, so stay tuned…