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thecosmicfrog / LuasataGlance

Android Wear and mobile app providing real-time tram stop information for Dublin's Luas light rail service.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thecosmicfrog.luasataglance
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Times should update as soon as new information is available from the server #2

Closed thecosmicfrog closed 9 years ago

thecosmicfrog commented 9 years ago

Ideally, the stop forecast should reload as soon as new times are available on the server. One issue here is that LaaG uses its own API server which sits between the app and the Luas RTPI server. As such, the API server only updates when a HTTP request is made (e.g. from the LaaG app). I will be implementing memcached on the server-side to mitigate the load placed by a volley of HTTP requests, so I will look into how I can further improve things there.

thecosmicfrog commented 9 years ago

When opened, LaaG currently pokes the server for fresh times every 10 seconds (mobile) and 3 seconds (wearable). I can't think of any way to do this efficiently on the server side where the drawbacks won't outweigh the benefits. Closing.