Every Door 6.0

Released on 26 June 2025

This release is focused on one thing people (and the author too) have been waiting since 2022:

Plugins

What is a plugin? The lines between configuration files, plugins, extensions, and DLC are very thin. People have asked for more configurability, and for custom builds for specific use cases. Every Door is very opinionated, and hence is not as much configurable as some would prefer. Well, it got more open now, with the introduction of plugins.

At the first stage, a plugin is a YAML file in an archive, directing which tags to use, how things look, and what editing modes there are. While not very flexible, it allows for custom imagery, custom presets and fields, and entire custom workflows, for which you might have needed dedicated apps.

For example, the prototype mapping pie dispencer makes it easy to download mapping area boundaries to Every Door, to know where to map. In the future it could advise on imagery layers, show a surveying manual, and even track the completion and share locations with other participants.

Plugins are collected in the Repository. It is accessible right from the app: go to Settings → Plugins → (+) button. Uploading plugins is easy: you only need an OpenStreetMap account. But there are also other ways of installing plugins, e.g. from a QR code.

See the Plugins section to learn how to use and how to develop those.

Amenity Editing

Green Markers

After you have done the initial survey, the re-surveying often consists of a single step: tapping the checkmark, confirming shops are still there. "Yup, yup, still there, this one too, and this one..." The idea was, you look at the tiles below the map and ignore the map. But when something's off, like a shop missing, cross-referencing the legend with the map becomes hard.

So in this release, I tried to color confirmed amenities green. And it made surveying faster and more fun!

Dragging the Button

Did you know that in the entrances and notes modes, you could not only tap (+) buttons, but also drag them onto the map? That would save you a second, which is important when you're in a car, for example, collecting all the addresses in a village.

Now the code has been restructured for the plugins, and this dragging behaviour has also been added to the first two modes. Try dragging the button next time you add a bench!

Weekdays

Dmitry from Israel pointed out that the day order (and translations for weekdays) were off. Turns out, in some countries days start not from Monday, and some have a different set of weekends! Now Every Door knows of local rules, and adjusts the opening hours panel accordingly.

Fixme Objects

When you cannot find a correct type for a shop, you could type something free-form into the search field, and tap on the red box to create a special kind of amenity, amenity=fixme. It would record all the data, so that later somebody could find the correct type and retag the object, keeping the name, opening hours, phone numbers etc.

Alas the second step rarely happened, and mappers were complaining. To fix that, Every Door will now convert such fixme amenity to an OSM note, in case nothing but the name is provided. It will also highlight fixme amenities marking them as objects to improve.

As for other objects with non-empty fixme values, which have been highlighted, it is now easier to clear the fixme tag with a single tap. Thanks to Soham Dixit, who has implemented the feature.

Wrong State

Want to change the type of a shop? It's easy: tap the title in the header. Presets specify which tags need to be removed and which to add. Alas, the app forgot to remove the tags first, which resulted in some weird tagging after a type switch. Not anymore.

Did not know you could change the object type? I have underlined the title to make it more discoverable.

Note that when changing a type, now you won't get a full list of type suggestions. This also is a result from restructuring the code, but feels to be a correct way to go: I've never found a correct replacement in those lists, because they were made for initial surveying, not map gardening.

See a shop closed, but with a sign still there? Mark it disused by tapping the orange button in the editor. It would add the disused: prefix to its main tag, producing e.g. disused:shop=clothes. Alas with the advancements to our tagging, and having multiple competing tagging schemas, sometimes one prefix was not enough. In this release, Every Door correctly manages prefixes for hospitals tagged with both amenity=hospital and healthcare=hospital.

Other

Compass

Finally you can know where you are looking! Thanks to Siarhei Fedartsou, the location marker has got a direction triangle.

Profile

And Soham Dixit has improved the look of the OSM profile page. Nothing new has been added there though, it's already perfect.

Note that due to a library update, you might need to re-login. In some cases, even reinstall the app, although I don't expect that to happen.

Buildings

Turns out "Cancel" buttons for buildings and entrances kept the changes. That was very wrong and I have no idea how nobody caught it in three years.

Mxdanger has also updated roof shape images appearing in a building editor form. Turns out they have made much more icons than we have seen!

Translations

First, mappers in Serbia should have an easier time adding local names, because thanks to Alnzrv, cyrillic and latin alphabets are now properly split between name:sr and name:sr-Latn, which both appear by default when you edit an amenity.

Also thanks to Yurt Page, app metadata, namely the description and changelogs, can be translated. Those are used only for F-Droid for now, but in the future someday I might add a Fastlane tool to use those translations when uploading to other stores.

Finally, this release has added multiple strings, mostly related to plugins, so I'm grateful to everyone who's translated those into their own languages. Special thanks goes to Mandeep and Kim Kats for vastly improving Punjabi and Greek localizations.

System Changes

Every Door 6.0 now supports only Android 6 ("Marshmallow") or newer. Sorry to those two users on 5.1 who's been left behind. Vespucci has still got you covered. But really, it's over ten years old, and you can easily find newer phones for a few bucks, or even free.

We also have a new QR code scanner. The previous one depended on proprietary MLKit, not available on de-googled phones or in the F-Droid build. Now the app uses an alternative open-source library that depends on ZXing for Android and MTBBarcodescanner for iOS. Alas both libraries are in maintenance mode, but they work good enough, at least the Android one. If you encounter any problems scanning QR codes, please report them.

New Website

This website has been migrated to Material for MkDocs, and its sections are gradually filling in. We have a guide on plugins and on contributing in general. User's guide and video tutorials to follow this Summer.

Thanks to NLNet

This release and the huge code restructuring and development work that went into it were funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).