ROADSTR 1.0.0 IS FINALLY HERE! 🎉🚀

After countless hours of development, testing on the road and debugging... I'm incredibly excited to announce the first stable release of Roadstr!

For those who don't know it yet, Roadstr is a free, open-source, decentralized navigation app for Android, powered by **Nostr, Bitcoin Lightning, and OpenStreetMap**, with absolutely no Google dependencies.

Since v0.5.0, the project has evolved enormously. And the biggest change? Roadstr has been rewritten from Flutter to native Kotlin, with Jetpack Compose and MapLibre!

Here's what we've built along the way:

🗺️ A whole new navigation experience
- Beautiful OpenStreetMap-based maps with 3D tilt, rotation, light/dark themes, and customizable vehicle cursors.
- Possibility to choose from 4 different tier of power consumption to accomodate both entry level phones and flagships.
- Real-time turn-by-turn GPS navigation, automatic rerouting, multiple route alternatives, and multi-stop planning.
- Navigation that keeps running even when your screen is off.
- Driving, walking, and cycling routes, with OSRM, GraphHopper, and OpenRouteService support.
- Live speed limits, speed-adaptive zoom, and customizable speedometer HUDs.

🌍 OFFLINE MAPS & NAVIGATION
- Downloadable worldwide maps using Geofabrik and Shortbread MBTiles.
- A hierarchical map catalog covering continents, countries, regions, and over 34,000 cities!
- Verified, resumable downloads and local map rendering.
- Optional offline routing powered by an on-device Valhalla engine, using separate routing packages.
- Support for custom and self-hosted map catalogs.

🤖 AI VOICE GUIDANCE — WITHOUT THE CLOUD
- Natural-sounding, on-device voice navigation powered by Kokoro-82M and Piper.
- No cloud AI API required. Voice generation happens directly on your phone.
- Multilingual guidance, downloadable voice models, and adjustable voices.

⚡ NOSTR + BITCOIN LIGHTNING
- Decentralized road reports for accidents, traffic jams, hazards, police activity, and speed cameras.
- Community confirmations, report corrections, and activity notifications.
- Reports created without connectivity can be queued for later publishing.
- Send Lightning zaps to people contributing useful road information!
- Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47) support.
- Secure Nostr login through Amber (NIP-55) and remote bunker signers (NIP-46). Your private key stays outside Roadstr.

🔎 SMARTER EXPLORATION
- Search addresses, businesses, brands, and points of interest using OpenStreetMap.
- Natural-language searches like "restaurants near me" or "gas stations along my route."
- Detailed place information, Wikipedia integration, and contextual amenities.
- Weather information along your journey.
- Open-data public transport itineraries where supported.

💾 MORE FREEDOM & CUSTOMIZATION
- Save places, parking locations, and complete routes.
- Encrypted, optional cross-device favorites synchronization through Nostr.
- Optional SearXNG integration for web search.
- 27 supported interface languages.
- Nostr Violet and Bitcoin Orange themes, with automatic dark mode.
- Integration with Tankful for sharing destinations directly into Roadstr.

🛠️ AND A LOT OF WORK UNDER THE HOOD
- A completely rewritten native Android architecture.
- Performance and battery optimizations.
- Improved GPS handling, navigation stability, and Nostr relay resilience.
- Extensive automated testing and real-device validation.
- An in-place upgrade path from the old 0.5.x releases, preserving supported user data and settings.

And of course, Roadstr is fully open source. No proprietary navigation platform, no mandatory Google account, and no centralized Roadstr traffic-reporting server. Download the code, break it, make it better, sell it, copy it, I don't care.

This project started with a simple idea: what if navigation could be open, community-driven, and powered by decentralized technology instead of another closed ecosystem?

Today, Roadstr 1.0.0 is one big step closer to that vision.

It's still an independent project, and there's plenty more to build. But reaching the first stable release feels like a huge milestone.

Thanks to everyone who has tested Roadstr, reported bugs, shared feedback, or simply followed its development ❤️

Get the stable release from @Zapstore

Source code: https://github.com/roadstrapp/roadstr-app/


The roads belong to everyone. Let's make navigation decentralized and as always #FuckGoogle

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