Starting October 15th, application with no explicit android.hardware.location.gps use in the manifest and requiring high precision location will be able to get installed on devices without a GPS.
It means that cgeo will be installable on devices where only network-derived location is available. Do we want this, or do we want to restrict (as I believe it is right now) cgeo to platforms with a GPS to ensure a good user experience?
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samueltardieu
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AFAIR we had this discussion in the past already where we introduced the explicit requirement.
From the support point of view I strongly vote for limiting the availability to GPS enabled devices due to:
- In the past we always had users on support claiming c:geo not working, where it finally turned out, that the device did not have GPS. In addition we had quite a bunch of bad ratings on Google Play due to this. This has stopped finally after the change.
- Now we have from time to time some users writing us, that they still want c:geo although they are aware that their device does not have GPS. I do link them to our direct APK download. Those users are aware of what they are doing.
Lineflyer
on 20 Sep 2016
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mucek4
on 20 Sep 2016
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Not using "reactions" is so 2015 :-)
samueltardieu
on 20 Sep 2016
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AFAIR we had this discussion in the past already where we introduced the explicit requirement.
From the support point of view I strongly vote for limiting the availability to GPS enabled devices due to: