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[Ayres G.J. <g.j.ayres AT swansea.ac.uk>]

> The version of the app that is currently on beta uses the Play Services API 
> for
> location services - it suggests IdPs near you as a convenience.
> Of course on phones without PS available, this feature will be somewhat
> broken. I don't know if our developer has safegaurds against this in the 
> code,
> but now it would be a good time to check. (As always, I'm happy to be
> corrected by Gareth :-) )

We don't use the Play services location API yet. Although I have discussed 
the move to it with you, which is why you likely think this.

We still currently use the Android.Location service, but Google are pushing 
people away from this. And will no doubt remove it in an upcoming version.
http://developer.android.com/training/location/index.html

So if we are going to officially support additional APK repositories, we need 
to keep this in mind.

> 
> Getting things like location is a bit difficult - we need "coarse"
> location only, and do not want to trigger GPS avtication etc. because it's 
> just
> not important enough. IIRC, Play Services has some sort of "casual" mode
> and that's what we use. If you feel like doing that nice little project of
> replacing this - feel free to contribute code once we are on the public SVN.

I know I log into the SVN, but I assumed it was open to read for public.

Sorry Ralph, I will have to email you the APK instead for now.
Let me know if you are happy for me to do this.
And if you want the latest beta, stable release or both.

Thanks,
Gareth.

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