If an issue is not bothering more than 10% of your userbase than its not a bug worth chasing. On Dec 19, 2012 11:53 AM, "John Coryat" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently, I got a complaint letter from a user of our weather category app > RadarNow! regarding our new NWS Alert feature. This feature sends out NWS > Alerts based on the user's location. RadarNow! notifies the backend its > location and the backend reverse geocodes that location into a state and > county. NWS Alerts are issued by the county. > > The user's complaint was that he and his wife, both with identical phones, > were receiving different alerts. In theory, they should be receiving the > same as they are in the same location and again, in theory, the same county. > > After some investigation, the issue turned out to be due to the accuracy > of the Network Location feature in Android. Both users had accuracies of > over 2,500 meters. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but they also lived > in a border area and one that's rural. Rural areas have more errors in > location that highly populated ones. > > The fixes must have been based on different cell towers and because > they're right on the border of Nevada and Arizona, that calculated out to > one user being in Arizona and the other in Nevada. Naturally, that meant to > RadarNow!'s backend that they were in different counties so different sets > of alerts were sent to each of them. > > Is this a feature or a bug? > > There's always a trade off between accuracy and latency in regard to > location fixes. For the radar display, 2500 meters is acceptable For > most users, that would be the case as well. For these people, it wasn't. So > in a way, it's a bug in that it allowed the backend to calculate them > incorrectly into different counties. > > On the other hand, it's a feature in that we take the fastest possible fix > and avoid GPS to improve response time and decrease battery usage. GPS is > only used when Network location isn't available. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/FnHNlDMFXMkJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
