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by ABrandt 5375 days ago
What kind of accuracy are you seeing with the background location check? Does the app accurately pinpoint you at Joe's Bar, or the dry cleaners next door? I think it's a neat concept and remedying your black out is only scratching the surface of possibilities. Nice work.
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Thanks! :) When you're on the move accuracy is typically of 5-10m (it doesn't matter if the app is in background or foreground), so yes the app accurately pinpoints where you are.

Now, not to overwhelm the user with a multitude of entries the app only records your location every 70 meters if at least 60 seconds have passed. That means that the dry cleaners would have to be 70 meters away from Joe's bar to have an event recorded. I'm planning on making it more flexible by adapting the minimum number of meters / minimum time elapsed depending on your speed (if you're walking, cruising, driving fast etc.)