

If you’re outside and can see the open sky, the GPS accuracy from your phone is about five meters, and that’s been constant for a while. Meanwhile, what about GPS? In terms of GPS accuracy in the open sky, there has not been much change in the last few years. There continues to be improvement, and you’ll see indoor accuracy of better than 10 meters, but round-trip time (RTT) is the technology that will take us to the one-meter level. With each release of the fused location provider, we have had steady improvement of the Android algorithms and machine learning for Wi-Fi locations. Where are we today with indoor location accuracy? If you’ve noticed that your phone seems to be more accurate when you’re inside shopping malls and office blocks than it was a few years ago, you’re not imagining it.

We will highlight where you must get user permissions and we’ll close with some guidelines for making great location apps. The more people who use location, the more careful we and you have to be. We also want to highlight the need to protect and respect the user. It’s a great time for location applications because technology hardware standards and Android application programming interfaces (APIs) are all evolving simultaneously to enable an improved location accuracy that has not previously been possible when using smartphones.Įventually, this means high accuracy for everyone, but we want to take you under the hood of location because we want to give you the opportunity to get a head start on the future. Image: GPS World outdoor, Andriy Solovyov/ indoor, Rade Kovac/
