Learned an example of a badly coded #Android app today (#Poppy)
Apps expect that there is always a location. Why shouldnt there be one, all devices have #NetworkLocation dont they?
Well no, on #GrapheneOS and most other free Androids, only #AGPS is used. Network location can be manually enabled somewhere in some settings
A good app would use a fallback location now, centering the app in Europe or whatever. A bad app leaves the user unknowing if the map rendering is broken, as the map is white
Tbh, #Apple's location service can be used without big issues. #GrapheneOS does so, the data can be easily scraped.
But as a #BeaconDB contributor, I am of course happy to hear this!
There are a ton of people collecting data, it is pretty insane!
Have you ever collected data for #OpenCellID #MozillaLocationService #WiGLE or #BeaconDB ?
Please retoot!
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