How to Build a Mobile Application with Geolocation
Build a Mobile Application
Mobile Application: Today, technology is growing and it has changed the interaction between customers and businesses, one of the technology changes is geolocation. The local businesses and popular brands are using geolocation to serve services and products a better way.
Some of the applications are completely based on the geolocation and some of the adding geolocation to extend their features and functionality.
“According to GeoMaketing, 90% of US mobile users keep location services turned on”, so you can easily imagine how much geolocation is beneficial for mobile application.
There are lots of categories in the mobile application using geolocation and earn lots of revenue through it. Such as social media apps, travel apps, taxi booking apps, e-commerce apps, augmented reality and games and much more.
Although, there are different methods for Obtaining Geolocation Data such as
GPS: It stands for Global positioning system that provides time and location-based information to the GPS receiver.
Although, when GPS was founded, it was being used by only the US military. Now, anyone can receive audio signals from GPS satellite. Also, almost all modern devices are integrated with GPS technology.
Cell ID: Today most of the smart device also comes with the cell id that is operated by the mobile operator. This method gives more accurate information because it directly relies on radio signals of the mobile operator.
Wifi: Wireless Fidelity is another great invention. It works the same as cell id, but it is more powerful, precise, and less battery consumption technology. Maybe sometimes you have seen an application which tells you to allow Wifi that is only to get more accurate location information.
It actually seems weird but it is true that Wifi using location information. Wifi geolocation access is more beneficial in an urban area where all device is connected together. Even when the place where GPS is not accessible Wifi being a good option.
Assisted GPS: It is more precious and accurate that combines a GPS and cell ID to receive more accurate data, but it has a better draining issue while used
How to Integrate the Geolocation feature in the Mobile Application
Finally, we come to our primary point, how to integrate geolocation in the mobile application? So to create a geolocation-based mobile app, you need to install special APIs which contains special functionality and the database. Just with the APIs integrations, you can access all the data.
For Example, You want to create an application which helps to find nearby restaurants, so in that case, you need to only find the address by integrating APIs to show the nearby restaurants on the map.
Okay, next look at the two technology geolocation integration: Android & iOS
Geolocation Integration on Android Platform
Today, geolocation is not limited only with location sharing but there is more to do. Such as today most of the restaurant offers the live location of the delivering. So a user can know the real-time location of the delivery team.
Also, taxi booking application shows the distance between customers and car as well as showing currently car available to book or not. So these all you can do with the geolocation by integrating into an android mobile application.
There is Android location packages and Google maps API available to implement the geolocation in the android. First geolocation tries to use GPS and then if it is not detectable then geolocation using other options such as Wifi, A GPS, Cell id.
Currently, Android API is not supported multiple features, but you can integrate with JavaScript geolocation API, to install Google Apps libraries to the device.
Geolocation Integration on iOS platform
The Ios platform offers a set of tools that allow integration of geolocation through the location and maps services. You can use Google maps geolocation APIs to integrate geolocation in IOS apps, as it is very handy. When talking about Ios maps, you can allow 3d map, panning through the API.
In the iOS platform, certain geographic areas can be predefined when a user enters application raises a certain notification. Also using a beacon you can allow you can calculate the distance between the user and certain landmarks
Conclusions:
When you read this article you have been aware of the geolocation-based mobile application. Now, how you can create the application. So there are different companies available to create a location-based application. But it would be important to choose the best company in order to create interactive and user-friendly mobile apps.
There is one company called GoingIT who offers mobile app development in Melbourne that helps to create the best location-based application in your budget.
However, when talking about the cost of the geolocation based application it completely depends on the company you hire, programmer experience, size and maintenance of the application.
