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Traccar Client for Android
https://www.traccar.org/client
Apache License 2.0
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Android client multiple URL support #388

Open MiracleToast opened 5 years ago

MiracleToast commented 5 years ago
MiracleToast commented 5 years ago

Would be great if the mobile client could support multiple server URLs, or at least two. I might take a stab at it myself if I find time :)

tananaev commented 5 years ago

If it's a feature request, please explain the use case. At the moment the need for this is not clear to me and I've never heard such request from anyone else.

MiracleToast commented 5 years ago

Just a redundancy feature -- that URL is critical to the operation of the client. If the primary infrastructure URL fails, it would provide an alternate path. I guess I look at it like using multiple DNS servers, or multiple internet gateway servers. Just a resiliency feature. In theory, the infra should take care of it. In practice, that doesn't always happen.

tananaev commented 5 years ago

Usually redundancy is done in a different way. You should have a load balancer or several load balancers, but the URL is always the same.