<p>Before Kitkat, The GPS icon in the status bar reflected whether your device was still searching for satellites or already had acquired a fix. With Kitkat, this no longer was the case – but an XPosed module named <a href='https://repo.xposed.info/module/eun.xposed.gpsnotification' target='_blank'>GPSNotification</a> fixed that. This module is no longer working with Lollipop – which is where <i>Gps Icon</i> comes into play. Thanks to this little app, you again can see the GPS status in your status bar.</p><p>The developer of <i>GPS Icon</i> doesn’t want an app which needs less than 50kB to do its job inflated to 500kB or more just because of drawing in the „usual frameworks“ – so it sometimes takes a bit of playing around to have it working on as many Android versions as possible. Version 1.3.0 worked well for a long time – but no longer for Android 8 (Oreo). Attempts to get that working broke it for either Android 6, 7 or both – so after the experiments, we decided to keep 3 versions:</p><ul><li>v1.3.1: a special old version, actually created after v1.4.3, based on v1.3.0 and made working for Oreo</li><li>v1.4.2: version with new features but before „Oreo hacks“ (i.e. probably not working on Oreo)</li><li>v1.4.6: version with new features which now hopefully works for all aforementioned platforms (but no longer with Android 10)</li></ul><p>Should there still be any issues, please report!</p>