droidcon NYC '19: Where the Heck Am I? Understanding Location in Your Application
droidcon NYC 2019 | Where the Heck Am I? Understanding Location in Your Application | Richard Süselbeck
What you'll learn
Using GPS to find out exactly where you are is one of the more awesome powers of mobile devices. It also poses some of the toughest challenges to developers, who must prevent excessive battery drain and deal with insufficient accuracy. In this talk. Richard Süselbeck helps you face such challenges by answering questions like: How does GPS even work? Where did my battery go? Why does my phone think I'm in the middle of a lake? If you've ever wanted to understand how satellite navigation actually works, this is the talk for you.
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About the author
Droidcon is the largest global network of developer conferences which bring together the industry's foremost experts dedicated to advancing the Android platform. Droidcon engages a global network of over 25,000 developers attending events in 22 cities. The first droidcon conference was held in 2009 in Berlin and, since, it has spread its influence across the globe and established itself as the world's foremost community-driven conference format. Droidcon is the place to meet the international A... more