Schedule and Reschedule Routes – Android Route Planner App

Route4Me’s Android Route Planner is designed to make your routing operations and transactions as fast and flexible as possible, allowing you to effortlessly plan, optimize, and navigate routes of any complexity on the go. Once you plan a new route and schedule it for a particular date and time, you can always re-schedule this route with a touch of a button and Route4Me will automatically update this route on all associated devices. Thus, if you use your Route4Me Android app for changing the schedule of the route that you assigned to your team member, this route will be automatically updated on this user’s device in near real-time. To learn more about adding your routes to the Google Calendar and third-party calendar apps, visit this page.

 

Scheduling Routes When Planning

To plan a new route and schedule it for any preferred date and time, first, go to “My Routes” from the navigation menu.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

Next, tap on the “Add Route” button, specify the route’s settings and then schedule the route for any preferred date and time using the “Start Time” calendar. Then, tap on the checkmark icon in the top right corner of the screen to save the route. After that, add addresses to the route and then optimize it. Once the route is planned, the route’s start date and time are displayed under its name in your Routes List.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

To learn more about planning new routes using Route4Me’s Android Route Planner, specifying optimization settings, and adding addresses to the route, visit this page.

 

Rescheduling Planned and Optimized Routes (From the Routes List)

To change the schedule of a particular planned route from your Routes List, on the “My Routes” screen, first, tap on the route that you want to reschedule and then select “Change Schedule” from the route’s menu.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

Next, select the preferred start date and time for the route using the calendar and then tap “OK” to apply the changes. Once the route is rescheduled, you can view the new start date and time of this route under the route’s name on the “My Routes” screen.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

Rescheduling the Currently Opened Route

To change the start date and time of the current route, first, open this route by going to “My Routes” from the navigation menu, tapping on the route that you want to open and then selecting “Open Route” from the menu.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

To reschedule the opened route, first, tap on the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen. Next, tap on the “Start Time” calendar and then select the preferred date and time for the route respectively.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

To apply the schedule changes and go back to the route, tap on the back arrow icon in the top left corner of the screen. After that, you can view the new schedule of the route in the “Scheduled For” field.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

Route4Me provides near real-time data synchronization across all associated computer and mobile devices so that whenever you reschedule a particular route using Route4Me’s iOS and Android mobile apps, the corresponding route can be automatically updated with the new schedule on the Route4Me Web Platform and vice versa.

Scheduling and Rescheduling Routes - Route4Me's Android Route Planner

 

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Route4Me has over 35,000 customers globally. Route4Me's Android and iPhone mobile apps have been downloaded over 2 million times since 2009. Extremely easy-to-use, Route4Me's apps create optimized routes, synchronize routes to mobile devices, enable communication with drivers and customers, offer turn-by-turn directions, delivery confirmation, and more. Behind the scenes, Route4Me's operational optimization platform combines high-performance algorithms with data science, machine learning, and big data to plan, optimize, and analyze routes of almost any size in real-time.