Mileage App

For nearly as long as I have had an Android phone I have had Evan Charlton's app, Mileage.  It was one of the first apps that I installed on my HTC G1 back in the later part of 2008.  It's been one of the most simple and comprehensive apps that I have ever used.  Plus it's ad-free.

The Mileage app is simplistic in its design, getting straight to the point.  There are no iconic loading screens, credits or advertisements.  The app opens fast and immediately shows the main screen.

To get started, you will want to add a new vehicle profile.  Across the top there are 4 tabs, Fillup, History,
Statistics, and Vehicles.  Select Vehicles, then hit the Menu button (common button on all android devices) and choose "Add new vehicle".  In this screen you can change the measurement units, specify if this is the default vehicle and choose the type.

On the first tab "Fillup", there are very few fields to fill out.  Price per quantity, quantity, odometer, date, comment, and a check box for whether the tank was filled completely.  It is important to check the "tank not filled" box if you do not fill the tank, otherwise the statistical calculations will be incorrect.

Mileage manages a list of all your fillups in the History tab.  After a few tanks the app will have had a chance
to calculate your average fuel efficiency.   The app will use the average to give you a good or bad rating on future economy ratings.  Good ratings are in green and bad are in red.  There's no variation on this coloring, even if you're 0.01 under the average.

My personal favorite section is the Statistics tab.  Although the data is not exhaustive, it does cover quite a few points.  There are major headings and several minor points in each.  Fuel Economy and Distance between fillups offer average, worst and best quantities. Where as Cost per distance and Fuel price list the average, maximum, and minimum values.  Fillup costs however go a bit further with including Average,

Minimum, Maximum, Total cost, Last month, Estimated per month, Last year, and Estimated last year.  As an interesting bonus Mr. Charlton includes the furthest Latitude and Longitude of your fillups.

I have all of the metrics for fuel for three of the vehicles that I've had in the last 5 years in this app.  Each time I swap to a new phone I export and import the data via the default SQLite export feature.  The only step further that I would ask for is an online tracking feature.  Maybe I should do just that with the export... nah.


Check this app out on the Play Store