Why does UT not have assisted GPS?

RapidRotator

I have an open source Bangle.js smart watch with assisted GPS. On a PostmarketOS phone I use geoclue with:

[wifi]:
enable=true
url=https://beacondb.net/v1/geolocate

in the settings to get fast WiFi-enabled GPS. So hence my question: why is badly perfoming GPS mentioned as a caveat with every phone, while this is perfectly possible to do in Linux?

Is it simply that nobody had the time yet?

MrT10001

@RapidRotator said in Why does UT not have assisted GPS?:

Is it simply that nobody had the time yet?

That is the most likely reason. For an OS with apps developed by and with a community, not everything will or can be done. That is also to say that it could be done in the future.

RapidRotator

@MrT10001 That's great to hear. I really hoped there wasn't some technical problem in UT preventing this. I'll look into it then.

MrT10001

@RapidRotator If you can do something like this, please do contribute. At the moment it is way above my brain grade.

gpatel-fr

@RapidRotator said in Why does UT not have assisted GPS?:

I'll look into it then

you can begin with this issue
You'll note that there is a privacy concern too; if UT devs were ready to trample it, it would be easier.