Working on a phone

The layout on a phone

Asphalt OS runs in the web browser, on a computer or a phone. On a narrow screen:

• The sidebar becomes one row across the top that scrolls sideways and keeps the current page in view.
• The search box gets a line of its own.
• Boards, such as Pipelines and Support, become plain lists.
• A card you open fills the screen.

Pages made for the phone

• Today: today's quote visits and jobs, each with the full breakdown, directions and tap-to-call. Add photos from the camera. See Today, My day and tasks.
• Loads: a driver taps Loaded at plant now at the plant and On site now at the job. See Truck loads and plants.
• Expenses: snap the receipt, type the amount and send it for approval. See Crew expenses.
• Incidents: report a breakdown or an accident with photos from the camera. See Incidents and repairs.
• Compliance: the vehicle inspection, with big OK, Defect and Not on this unit buttons. See Driver compliance.
• Quick task, on Tasks and in Today: tap the microphone on the phone's keyboard to say the task instead of typing it.

Crews on phones

Foremen and crew members see their crew's jobs with the address, scope, access notes, contact and directions, and never the prices. See Why crews never see prices or costs.

Install it on your phone

In the phone's browser, choose Add to Home Screen (iPhone: Safari, iOS 16.4 or later) or Install app (Android: Chrome or Edge). Asphalt OS then opens full screen from its own icon, and the day's pages (My day, Today, Loads, the vehicle inspection, incidents and expenses) still open when the signal drops, with the last data seen. Anything else says "You're offline".

• Only those pages' answers are kept on the phone: never a receipt, a photo, an export or a summary of costs.
• The copy belongs to the person signed in. Signing out on the phone empties it at once, and so does every new sign-in there, whether with a password, through an invitation link or by setting up the company, so nothing is shown to the next person on a shared crew phone.
• Signed out another way (Sign out everywhere else on another device, a password change, or the session running out), the phone empties its copy as soon as it next reaches Asphalt OS. A phone that never comes back online keeps its last day on it until it does. On a shared phone, sign out on the phone itself.
• Offline, the copy is shown for one working day at most, and only while the phone's proof of your sign-in (the answer that says who is signed in) is under 18 hours old too. Once that proof, or a page's own answer, is older, everything kept goes at once, not page by page, and the page says "You're offline".
• Those 18 hours are read from the phone's own clock, so somebody who turns the clock back can bring a copy back within its day; nothing offline can tell. What protects a phone that never comes back online is the phone's own lock. On a shared phone, sign out on the phone itself.

Alerts on this phone

Alerts on this phone in the account menu registers this phone for push alerts, and Send a test alert checks it. Alerts follow the person holding the phone: whoever switches them on takes the phone over, signing out switches them off, and another person signing in (through an invitation link too) stops the previous person's alerts there. One person can have alerts on 5 phones.

A phone whose sign-in ended some other way (Sign out everywhere else from another device, a password change, or the session running out) switches its alerts off the next time it reaches Asphalt OS; they come back on by themselves when the same person signs in again on that phone. Signing out on the phone itself switches them off for good, until somebody switches them on again there. Sign out everywhere else and a password change also take every phone of yours off the list at once, in every company you belong to; the device you pressed it on puts itself back if it had alerts on.

The store apps

An Android app and an iPhone app that wrap the same pages are being prepared, but they are not in the stores yet: the Android app is built and signed, the iPhone app needs Apple's tools and accounts, and neither has run on a real phone. Until then the browser, installed on the home screen, is the phone version.