nextcloud / nextcloud/talk-android
Location sharing is (possibly) sent too much inaccurately/imprecise
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- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
Steps to reproduce
- Check if location (location or "accurated" location) is enable on android (stay on open sky place if it's possible)
- Open Android Talk
- Open conversation
- Touch on clip
- Touch on "Share Location"
- Touch (directly) on "Share current location". (at the bottom of the screen)
Expected behaviour
The current location (with no more than 20 meters of precision) has to be shared on the conversation.
Actual behaviour
Sometimes, the current location sent is too much imprecise. ( I've suffered mistakes of more than 500m)
It could be an human error, by moving the center in the maps windows/share location window, but if this is the problem (that I'm sure that it's not always), could be a helper, or an approach to avoid the mistake, openning the map of share location with more zoom to the current location and/or show the aproximated current error (the active blue circle).
Device brand and model
All phones
Android version
14
Nextcloud Talk app version
19.0.1
Nextcloud server version
28.0.5
Talk version
18.0.7
Custom Signaling server configured
None
Custom TURN server configured
Yes
Custom STUN server configured
Yes
Android logs
No response
Server log
No response
Additional information
No response
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Research direction
Reproduce the Android Talk flow through a conversation's clip button, Share Location, and Share current location, preferably on Android 14 in an open-sky area. Investigate why the shared position can differ by more than 500 m and determine whether the map's initial zoom or visible accuracy indicator needs changing. Done means the current location is shared within the reported precision requirement without relying on manual map repositioning.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100