MLO for Android: nearby reminders remarks
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robert roszak
Sep 18, 2012, 10:43:40 AM9/18/12
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Here are few remarks i have after using MLO for android for a couple of days:
- I've noticed, that checking position works kind of weird. GPS (when enabled and scheduled 'ON') stay connected to the satelite all the time. It's really hard for battery and after some time battery is empty. My experience from using some other apps that use GPS is that better solution is to check for position in intervals - for example every 15 minutes. Once position is updated it goes sleep. Of course this means it may be less precise, I know, but often I'd change accuracy for power. I think it'd be very good idea to leave the interval to be set by user.
- the second thing is also related to consumption of energy. I know there's schedule to turn off/on location based reminders and it works nice. But very often schedule is not best solution. For example, I want MLO to check my location every working day from 16 till 22 and I set that in schedule. But very often (probably more than 50% of cases) I decide to stay home after work and not to go to the city. Of course I can turn of GPS/MLO location reminders every time but it's not solution. For the time being I solved it using Tasker for android where I have 2 contexts - home and work (activated by Wifi network) - and it turns GPS off when I'm arrived in these locations. But it can be good idea to have such a option directly in MLO. Even just because tasker costs about 10 usd.
- updating position goes not always perfectly. Sometimes I get reminders even though I'm not even close to the range I set (when checking MLO app is showing wrong distance in that moment)
That's all for now. Please let us know what's impossible/feasable. Thanks.
- I've noticed, that checking position works kind of weird. GPS (when enabled and scheduled 'ON') stay connected to the satelite all the time. It's really hard for battery and after some time battery is empty. My experience from using some other apps that use GPS is that better solution is to check for position in intervals - for example every 15 minutes. Once position is updated it goes sleep. Of course this means it may be less precise, I know, but often I'd change accuracy for power. I think it'd be very good idea to leave the interval to be set by user.
- the second thing is also related to consumption of energy. I know there's schedule to turn off/on location based reminders and it works nice. But very often schedule is not best solution. For example, I want MLO to check my location every working day from 16 till 22 and I set that in schedule. But very often (probably more than 50% of cases) I decide to stay home after work and not to go to the city. Of course I can turn of GPS/MLO location reminders every time but it's not solution. For the time being I solved it using Tasker for android where I have 2 contexts - home and work (activated by Wifi network) - and it turns GPS off when I'm arrived in these locations. But it can be good idea to have such a option directly in MLO. Even just because tasker costs about 10 usd.
- updating position goes not always perfectly. Sometimes I get reminders even though I'm not even close to the range I set (when checking MLO app is showing wrong distance in that moment)
That's all for now. Please let us know what's impossible/feasable. Thanks.
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