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I think Android can do parked car trick. I am guessing only but google maps apps on iOS shows where I have parked car. I am surprised that google does not offer
by daliusd 3y ago
I think Android can do parked car trick. I am guessing only but google maps apps on iOS shows where I have parked car. I am surprised that google does not offer something similar to airtag.
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoYou can use any iBeacon/EddyStone BLE device for this, they are very cheap and are widely available. However, there are no neat built-in features in apps shipped with phones that make use of them on Android apps, you always have to use some 3rd party app and the UX there is usually not that great.
- jbverschoor 3y agoThat’s not how this feature works and not how this is notified to the user
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoThe third party app remembers the location when it last received pulse from the beacon that is in the car and when you open it, leads the user back to it. Disclosure: I actually happen to kno exactly how this feature works, as I added support for iBeacons in apps for iOS and Android in one of our projects. Not for the functionality described above, but for waking the app once a user walks to a proximity of a beacon. My office beacon is laying at a distance of less than 1meter from me right now.
- pintxo 3y agoAfaik, iOS does save a location, and marks it as a parked car, when it looses the bluetooth connection to a device it identified as being a car. So no additional hardware needed for this to work.
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoIt is a different thing, and we're talking mostly about androids.
- Jim_Raynor 3y agoSo lets talk about android - does it something like that automatic? Remember location when bluetooth is disconected sound nice.
- Andrew_nenakhov 3y agoNo, it doesn't. Did I ever say it did? Also, in my part of the world I don't see many cars around that connect to Android/iOS as a Bluetooth accessory anyway.