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ActivityWatch for Android, using aw-server-rust as backend.
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Location Logging #59

Open kovasap opened 3 years ago

kovasap commented 3 years ago

Has anyone thought about hooking in Android location logging info into this app? There's a lot of useful activity data from my life that is strongly tied to location (but not my phone app activity). It would be awesome if this data could be collected by this app just like app data is!

ErikBjare commented 3 years ago

I've thought about this in the past, and while it certainly would be cool it also sounds like a headache to maintain. There's a rather large amount of other apps doing location tracking, perhaps there's another app out there that already does what you want?

I personally use the Timeline feature in Google Maps for this, but I appreciate that not everyone is comfortable sending their every move to Google.

However, if someone's interested in implementing this, I'd be open to merging it.

kovasap commented 3 years ago

I also use and like the maps timeline feature. My issue with it is that I have to use a hacky method to get the data from it into a data aggregation system I use. Things would be cleaner if I used a system (like aw) that was built for easy data access.

I'm hoping that android has some easy api to get location data (that maps timeline uses) that aw could call. But I don't really know anything about android development so I might be way off here.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, 8:16 AM Erik Bjäreholt notifications@github.com wrote:

I've thought about this in the past, and while it certainly would be cool it also sounds like a headache to maintain. There's a rather large amount of other apps doing location tracking, perhaps there's another app out there that already does what you want?

I personally use the Timeline feature in Google Maps for this, but I appreciate that not everyone is comfortable sending their every move to Google.

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