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A bit unrelated, but can anyone enlighten me what he means by "geofence" to detect his phone leaving the apartment?
by splitbrain 12y ago
A bit unrelated, but can anyone enlighten me what he means by "geofence" to detect his phone leaving the apartment?
- whatusername 12y agoHere's the Android details: https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.html https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.h... Essentially - hook into the Phone's location services and perform actions based on either entering or leaving a certain location/radius.
- lutusp 12y agoThrough reading the context, it means a scheme in which a phone uses its GPS to detect exceeding a specified radius from the house and setting off an alarm. All you need to do is set a position (the house) and an alarm radius (greater than the normal error bounds for GPS) and you will always know if the phone is where it's supposed to be.
- fit2rule 12y agoGeo Fencing is where you use the GPS coordinates of a 'virtual area' to determine whether you are 'inside the fence' or outside of it. Think of it as virtual lines in the sand, and whenever your phone determines you've crossed a line, it does something ..