Cartonama Conference

Introduce audience to the location based services in Android, and share some (very reusable) lessons from an app in the marketplace.

Outline

• Introduce how android gets location data (GPS, Network, Wifi), and how it exposes it
• What are the trade-offs between the different types of location data
• How to use the location based services effectively in a production quality app

I’ll try to keep it interactive and focus on the areas that the audience cares most about.

Requirements

A basic understanding of geo-location, ie lat/long, etc
A basic understanding of Android (or any mobile platform, for that matter)

Speaker bio

For this topic: I ran a startup that tried to collect, analyze, and report road traffic info. I built an android app that exercised the Android Location services in different ways, and had to try a bunch of tricks to optimize battery performance.

In general: A technology enthusiast, having worked on many diverse technologies (Networking, Multimedia, Virtualization, Mobile, Location) at companies like VMware, Microsoft, and now at Flipkart.

Links

• Presented some parts of this at http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/58734432/
• http://in.linkedin.com/in/gauravlochan