Google's Transition API allows developers to admission context-aware features

Google says that it has heard from app developers who say that they are spending too abundant time alive with area and sensor abstracts aloof to actuate back an Android user has started or concluded assertive activities like walking or driving. And all of the blockage that an app needs to do to ascertain whether the user is aloof starting his travels, or is at his destination, takes a assessment on a phone's array life.To advice bottle the array on Android handsets, Google has alien the Activity Recognition Transition API. Available to all Android developers, the API tells developers back a user

The QuickBooks Self-Employed app has auspiciously activated the use of Transition API

"QuickBooks Self-Employed helps self-employed workers aerate their deductions at tax time by importing affairs and automatically tracking car mileage. Before the Transition API, we created our own band-aid to clue breadth that accumulated GPS, phone sensors, and added metadata, but due to the advanced airheadedness in Android devices, our algorithm wasn't 100% authentic and some users appear missing or abridged trips. We were able to body a proof-of-concept application the Transition API in a amount of canicule and it has now replaced our absolute solution, alms a added reliable band-aid that additionally bargain our array consumption. The Transition API frees us up to focus our efforts on actuality the best accessible tax solution."-Pranay Airan and Mithun Mahadevan, Intuit

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