We don't want to add more options to the geolocation API. I do agree with Jonas -- we can stop sending events to backgrounded applications if we add a wake lock (?) for geolocation? A side effect of this could be to have system UI that shows that geo is being used in the background.
Thoughts? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM Shawn Huang <shu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On behave of Ya-Chieh Wu <y...@mozilla.com> > > Bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216148 > > Symptom: > There is no specific way to indicate if an application wants to use GPS in > the background. Currently, we don’t stop GPS when application goes to > background which might result in increase in battery use. On Android and > iOS, getting GPS in the background is not a default behavior. > > > Summarize the solutions which we brought up here or in Bugzilla before: > > (1)add a geolocation choice in wakeLock [1] > > window.navigator.requestWakeLock(type) > var lock = window.navigator.requestWakeLock('screen’); > lock.unlock(); > > > (2)add a property in PositionOptions [2] > runInBackground = true, //default is false > > > id = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(success, error, options); > options = { > enableHighAccuracy: false, //default: false > timeout: 5000, //default: Infinity > maximumAge: 0 //default: Infinity > }; > > [1] > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.geolocation/Backgrounded$20apps$20using$20GPS$20|sort:relevance/mozilla.dev.geolocation/UXkd3Tz1GPc/BtqtJ81Wi2YJ > > [2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216148#c6 > > > > any other suggestion to contribute this API ? > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Shawn Huang > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > dev-geolocation@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation > _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list dev-geolocation@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
