I’m confused, was this a Lineage specific feature? Ive had it since like Android 12 or 13
Didnt it already do that?
This has been a feature on iOS for like 10 years. It’s the little blue compass rose in the top right corner. It stops being blue when your location isn’t being actively accessed and goes away when you’re not using a location app
Stealing more ideas from graphene?
I was wondering why the dot turned from green to blue on my phone. Didn’t realize it was because the feature got upstreamed.
No. Stock Android had a half-finished, disabled implementation. GrapheneOS finished and enabled it.
So who actually implemented it first?
Apple, many years ago
Will it show when Google themselves though are using it?
At least on GrapheneOS it does, which means when you have any number of apps using the play services location service, it’s basically on all the time, and I can’t fucking turn it off.
I disabled it via an adb command I found floating around on the web a year or so back
Me too. As of the update before this one, it doesn’t work any more.
Yeah I think that’s due to google rolling their own implementation, I only get the blue notifs though, not the green
You can take away the location permission for gservices afaik. Maps still works without it, resorting to good ole GPS if I’m not wrong.
Sure, but my issue is the location indicator being on all the time. Denying it to play services just shifts the problem (and will probably cause app issues and extra battery drain).
You’re having GPS on all the time and worry about battery drain when disabling it? That does not make sense mate.
Not sure about this, but some apps do cause additional battery drain if something fails to work. For example, an app is pinging a hostname to determine if its online, if it succeeds it waits 5 minutes before doing it again, if it fails, it tries again in 30 seconds. A pretty rough example, but this is just to say that its entirely possible.
One service vs multiple apps doing it individually. The implications should be obvious.
It does with the green camera/microphone indicator dot. I’d expect the same.
