Thursday, 19 May 2016
Google has created a single API that will let Android apps be more contextual and location aware. The Google Awareness API uses seven location and context signals (time, location, places, beacons, headphones, activity and weather) from your phone to help apps create custom behaviors. It also offloads much of the behind-the-scenes resources your phone would use for those signals to help with battery life, and lets developers create custom geofenced locations. It’s a bit like Apple’s predictive app feature, which does things like suggest you open the Starbucks app when you’re near a Starbucks — but a bit more robust.…
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