XEP-0080: User Location

albertusgeyser commented 5 years ago

Good Day

Any plans to implement send location?

Thank You

Albertus Geyser

ge0rg commented 5 years ago

This has been a long-time no-go for me because it would require the GPS (fine location) permission on Android. With the new dynamic permission system established in Android 6, I think this is something that one could move forward with.

The challenge I see is this:

a one-off position report will be imprecise (after firing up GPS it usually takes ~30s to get a good location)
periodic position updates will drain the battery really quickly
I don't like Google's "smart" location services because they are based on leaking your local info to Google

ghost commented 4 years ago

Can it use location detection over the network instead of using GNSS?

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XEP-0080: User Location #244