Nearby is an API that allows to improve geolocation by using more tools on the phone. It can be used by all Google Play apps that will integrate it. Nearby therefore uses your smartphone’s ultrasounds by activating Wifi, Bluetooth and more surprisingly, the speaker as a transmitter and the microphone as a receiver; this is what we see in the technique of putting 3D touch on any smartphone.
In addition to its use, the company also uses Eddystone marks to find you better. These beacons can be put in public places and they broadcast information to our smartphones even when there is no active cellular data.
So, thanks to all this, Nearby will be able to better position us, but for what? On the official Android blogThe developers explain that this will specifically allow serving apps by location.
For example, we enter a supermarket, we are presented with a browser application. We also imagine the possibility of offering apps for shopping malls or airports. can detect its presence. We offer you to install Chromecast and thus Google Cast.
- Also read: How do you manage your geolocation history?
vehicle now ready to use and it will be implemented with the next Google Play update and will be active as soon as Bluetooth is turned on. It’s the app developers’ turn to integrate it, but we also bet that Google will let us disable it if we don’t want to be permanently located and protect our privacy a bit.
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