From aa56ee4abfeafedba8fc055604817bc8886e234e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:54:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] document location re-routing power use properties --- static/usage.html | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/static/usage.html b/static/usage.html index e536a485..e8e63bdf 100644 --- a/static/usage.html +++ b/static/usage.html @@ -906,6 +906,14 @@ Settings ➔ Location ➔ Location services which are disabled by default rather than enabled by default like the stock OS.

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Re-routing location to the OS geolocation service will use more power than + using the Google Play geolocation service since we do not provide a + network-based location service and implement it via GNSS / A-GPS only. In the + future, we plan on providing a pseudo-network geolocation service for the OS + by using a local database of cell towers, and the location redirection feature + can also make use of this future OS implementation for network location + requests once it's available.

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The Google Location Accuracy and Google settings activities would normally be integrated into the OS but we don't include any of the standard Google Play integration so there needs to be an app providing a way to access them.