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What is the best way to implement geo-fencing using an android app?

  • I would like to know different approaches to implement geo-fencing for a shopping/lifestyle application on Android. The goal is not to drain the battery by polling the location continuously. Some ideas: Since it is a shopping app, we might poll it during lunch-times and evening times. I am looking for some good ideas on this.

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    There are multiple ways that one can implement geo-fencing in their android application - Android API: You can use the API addProximityAlert - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager.html#addProximityAlert(double, double, float, long, android.app.PendingIntent). This API allows to set proximity alerts for specified locations. The problem is that on most phones this API will end up using a lot of battery. However, you can get a much better battery performance on devices that are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon powered devices(which is most of the android devices). http://bitly.com/Yk7nk1. Here is a good tutorial that shows how to use addProximityAlert() - http://bitly.com/fs9UhX Geofencing SDK:  You can use context awareness SDKs like Gimbal(https://www.gimbal.com/product/) which provide a very simple interface for Geofencing and other location/context based features.

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best way would be to receive location update at a defined interval

Rotshidzwa Ludzulu

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Arik Bronshtein

I have implemented geofencing using the GeofencingApi in Google Play Services. It conserves battery and is very flexible. https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/GeofencingApi

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