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Close to real time location sharing

Open LGro opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Add a close to real time location sharing feature. Start with outlining the UX; use background location refresh as window of opportunity to send updates as well.

This might just be an additional option in the check-in dialogue to mark e.g. "track live position".

This is the lowest priority one among the location sharing features. Start with check-in and future location sharing first.

LGro avatar Mar 08 '24 16:03 LGro

There seem to be multiple potentially relevant packages:

  • https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_background_geolocation
  • https://pub.dev/packages/location
    • "Works either with and without Google Play Services on Android phones" -> couldn't confirm this; was giving me errors about missing GooglePlay
  • https://pub.dev/packages/geolocator#listen-to-location-updates
    • this one actually works without GooglePlay services

Generally for background processing:

  • https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_background_service

LGro avatar May 04 '24 14:05 LGro

See other privacy focused, self-hosted location tracking apps:

  • https://github.com/bfabiszewski/ulogger-android
  • https://owntracks.org/booklet/
  • https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

LGro avatar May 26 '25 18:05 LGro