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Thank you, now it's clear but one thing doesn't work as you described.

The app restores the xml profiles from 4.2/ folder when you click the 'sync' button in profiles screen.

Actually, I tried it and noticed that if I remove the XML preferences from the folder, while profiles are working correctly, and then press the SYNC button, I get a message: "Profiles restored correctly". But those XML files do not get restored. The 4.2/ folder remains empty. However, if I change some settings in one profile (like interface color), then all the XML files for all profiles get immediately restored in the 4.2/ folder.

[Let's post other relevant papers in this thread, if you find them!]

I decided to check how OruxMaps is used for field studies within the scientific community. To do it I went through Google Scolar and Scopus databases. So I collected a list of scientific and near-scientific papers that refer to OruxMaps. In some of them it's just briefly mentioned but in others it's highlighted in details. The most scientifically reliable article from this list is Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) habitat surveillance by android mobile devices in Guangzhou, China (2016), published in the authoritative journal Insects, one of the top world journals on this topic. Let's post other relevant papers in this thread, if you find them!

2013

   
• Location Technologies in Smartphones
• Compared to specialized GPS devices, how good are smartphones for measuring GPS coordinate data?
• Geographic and geolocation competences for people in later life
• On the (in-) accuracy of GPS measures of smartphones: a study of running tracking applications

2015

   
• Techniques for Updating Pedestrian Network Data Including Facilities and Obstructions Information for Transportation of Vulnerable People
• Evidence of Neolithic activity at La Peña de los Enamorados (Antequera, Málaga): intensive surface survey, geophysics and geoarchaeology at the site of Piedras Blancas I.

2016

   
• Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Habitat Surveillance by Android Mobile Devices in Guangzhou, China
• Geographic data management, refined route design and precise navigation in biodiversity field surveys
• Introducing students to digital geological mapping: A workflow based on cheap hardware and free software
• User experience experiments with mobile devices in outdoors activities: Use case: cycling and mountain biking
• The Effect of User Comments on Traffic Application Usage
• City to Desert: Mapping and Exploration in Australia, 1994-2012
• iBats Jersey –Review (This report contains analyses of ultrasonic recordings of bat echolocation calls collected by States of Jersey Natural Environment Officers during July and August between 2011-2015)

2017

   
• Comparison of Accuracy Between Smartphone-GPS and Professional-GPS for Mapping Tuberculosis Patients in Bandung City (A Preliminary Study)
• Terrazzamenti della Val Grande : censimento e valorizzazione del patrimonio rurale tradizionale
• The megalithic necropolis of Panoria, Granada, Spain: Geoarchaeological characterization and provenance studies
• A review of the emergent ecosystem of collaborative geospatial tools for addressing environmental challenges
• Use of the space by the red deer (Cervus elaphus L., 1758) monitored by GPS telemetry in the Cansiglio Forest: silvicultural and ecological evaluations in summering and wintering districts
• Rate of dispersal of spotted knapweed biocontrol beetles (Larinus spp. Curculionidae) in Wisconsin

2018

   
• Just herbarize it!? Up-to-date collecting, preserving and documenting of plant material for scientific purposes
• A cloud-based GiScience learning approach to spanish national parks
• An Early Development of Flood Inundation Mapping Method Using Free Android Application to Support Emergency Response Activities: Case Study Baleendah, Bandung, West Java
• Geomorphology of the Valdegovía valley (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain): an example of a sub-Mediterranean, low-mid mountainous, structurally controlled area
• GIS-based detection of terraced landscape heritage: comparative tests using regional DEMs and UAV data
• Structural analysis of the southwestern sector of Holocenic Theistareykir rift, Northern Iceland

2019

   
• Accelerate fine-scale geological mapping with UAV and convolutional neural networks
• New GNSS precise positioning by mobilephones
• Evaluation of a Harvester-Baler System Operating in a Rockrose (Cistus laurifolius L.) Shrubland
• Field Assessment (Book Chapter, Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment, pp 159-186)
• Storage and drivers of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in a rangeland ecosystem across a lithosequence in western Iran

2020

   
• Intelligent High-Resolution Geological Mapping Based on SLIC-CNN
• Biodiversity in Quarries -a Study Case from Iglicioara Quarry, Romania

By the way, below I attach a chart of the worldwide popularity of the search therm "OruxMaps" over the years, according to Google Trends.

[Some questions]

Thank you for the quick response. For some reason, despite I had the custom "expedition" profile created, I got just one XML file in that folder. Anyway, I can't reproduce that anymore. I created three custom profiles, and everything works as you described now.

Some questions

• Profile settings are created in "oruxmaps/preferences/4.2" folder. What is 4.2 ?
• I thought that if I move profile XML files away, I'll break them in the app. However, if I delete XML files from "oruxmaps/preferences/4.2" and restart OruxMaps, profiles are working well. Could you clarify a bit more about these XML?

Am I correct about the right workflow to securely transfer profile settings?

• Set up a Default profile, which will share common settings
• Create custom profiles from the Default one
• DON'T TOUCH XML files in "preferences/4.2"
• If, for some reason, there are no XML files in "preferences/4.2" but profiles work well in the app, create new profiles from them, so it will make necessary XML files again.
• Copy the chosen XML files to another device to restore the profiles.

Suggestions

• I noticed that when you tap on a profile to delete it in the app, you see a confirmation window: "Are you sure you want to delete? ..." It would be very helpful if you put the profile name in that window. Because on a small screen, people may unintentionally tap on a wrong profile, and they won't be able to understand that they'll be deleting a wrong profile.
• I see that the documentation is a bit obsolete and not complete, I'd be glad to help with it (English and Russian).

[Error restoring profiles!]

Hello. For me it's important to transfer OruxMaps settings between devices, so I decided to test this feature.

As I understood from the documentation, profile settings are stored in a file like oruxmaps/preferences/om2_com.orux.oruxmapsDonate_preferences.xml. I had two profiles: "Default" and "expedition".  I saved the above-mentioned file in an external storage. Then I reinstalled OruxMaps deleting the "oruxmaps" folder for the total cleaning. I run the app for first time, seeing the welcoming screen, so a new clean "oruxmaps" folder was created. Then I moved the "om2_com.orux.oruxmapsDonate_preferences.xml" file to the "oruxmaps/preferences" folder. I completely closed the app. Then I opened it and went to Profiles->Restore/Refresh button. I expected that after pressing that button I would see my backup'ed "Default" and "expedition" profiles. Instead of that I receive a message: Error restoring profiles!

Any ideas?

OruxMaps version from Google Play: 7.5.9GP
Platform: Android 6.0.1 MMB29M on Xiaomi Redmi 3S
Other info: OruxMaps is installed in the internal storage