In the Keynote presentation at Google I/O today Google announced iii novel place API's for the Google Maps Android API v2.
1. Fused Location Provider
The Fused Location Provider is an improved place detection service for Android. As good every bit improved place detection the Fused Location Provider is to a greater extent than ability efficient together with uses less than 1% of the device's battery per hour
2. Geofencing
Geofences permit your apps to disclose when users teach into or piece of job out defined zones on a map. The Geofencing API volition permit upwardly to 100 geofences per app.
3. Activity Recognition
The Activity Recognition API uses the phone's accelerometer to automatically disclose whether users are walking, driving or cycling. I assume developers volition purpose this inwards activeness tracking apps, for representative to runway wheel rides together with render user statistics on average speed, distance travelled etc.
