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Re: GPS testing [was: How to automatically test applications that use orientation/acceleration sensors]

 

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Alberto,
>
> Alberto Mardegan [2014-01-31 15:01 +0200]:
>> Are there plans to do something similar with the GPS? That is, having
>> an API backend which reproduces location changes which it reads from a
>> GPX file?
>
> There are no plans at the moment. But not because we wouldn't want to,
> just because nobody got around to that yet and the whole location API
> still seems to be in flux quite a bit. But I'm happy to sit down with
> someone who is familiar with the GPS handling, and we can discuss how
> to do a sensible simlation/testing of that, of course. Who should I
> talk to about that?
>

That would be me I guess. I would love to see the same approach to the
location bits'n'pieces as for the sensor API.

Cheers,

  Thomas

> Thanks,
>
> Martin
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