Post #3200813

2024-08-17 13:04 UTC

@organicmaps@fosstodon.org @mxk@hachyderm.io @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @fdroidorg@floss.social You could also look into using #microg's location client library. It's a FOSS re-implementation of Google's proprietary client lib that works with the official GMS. Depending on this library would be permissible on F-droid as it's FOSS. The app would be marked with the unfree net anti-feature of course. I don't know whether disabling the feature by default could remedy that, perhaps @rugk@chaos.social or @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social are more knowledgable here.

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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2024-08-17 13:25

@Atemu@darmstadt.social I'm not an Android dev, so I cannot tell first-hand. What would be needed is support for "fused location" IIRC. As as far as I know, there are apps on F-Droid supporting that. An example at IzzyOnDroid would be MyLocation (https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.mirfatif.mylocation – also available at @fdroidorg@floss.social I see); I don't see a specific library included, but maybe check the source code: https://github.com/mirfatif/MyLocation @organicmaps@fosstodon.org @mxk@hachyderm.io @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @rugk@chaos.social

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@Atemu@darmstadt.social 2024-10-26 22:43

@organicmaps@fosstodon.org @mxk@hachyderm.io @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @fdroidorg@floss.social @rugk@chaos.social @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social I've gone ahead and implemented it. I spent more time getting the dev env up than implementing; it was super easy and simple. https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/9575 Let's see where this goes.

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