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The official Android app for OneBusAway
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Notify me with an arrival time when I'm near favorite stops #184

Open barbeau opened 9 years ago

barbeau commented 9 years ago

Requested by a few users here in Tampa. When the user nears a favorite stop, OBA should pop up a notification with real-time arrival info for that stop.

We should be able to do this in an energy-efficient manner using Geofences in Google Play Services, since the proximity detection is offloaded to hardware. We should notify a user on entry to radius near stop, to avoid pinging them multiple times while they are near the stop. "Near" still needs to be defined.

We should also have a setting to turn this off, if it annoys some users, or becomes an energy hog on older devices that don't support geofences in hardware.

barbeau commented 8 years ago

Now that we have favorite routes as well, we could only notify users at favorite stops for favorite routes, to help cut down on chatter for routes they don't care about.