PlaceTrack: background Latitude updater 2.4.1
Device: iOS iPhone
Category: Social Networking
Price: $1.99, Version: 2.4 -> 2.4.1 (iTunes)
Description:PlaceTrack is the best full-featured background updater for Google Latitude. Can even get your friends location from Foursquare and Facebook or automatically check you In!HOW IT COMPARES WITH OTHER CLIENTS✓ battery usage is excellent: PlaceTrack uses SLC mode (Significant Location Change), NOT continuos background. PlaceTrack is suspended in the background most of the time and does not use cpu cycles✓ Check In and Auto Check In support (to Foursquare and Facebook). Auto Check-In uses the new iOS geofencing features. Your friends' checkins are shown on map and you can view StreetView images or Foursquare photos for their location ✓ can save location history locally and can export kml to files or other installed apps (Google Earth, etc) ✓ delayed Latitude sync: stores your locations when you're offline, push them to your Latitude history when you're back onlineFEATURES✓ keeps Google Latitude up-to-date with your exact location: install the app and forget about it!✓ Foursquare and Facebook support: see your friends' checkins on the map or automatically check-in to Foursquare or Facebook✓ location sharing on Twitter, SMS, Email, Facebook✓ optional location history and KML export: you can export past locations by email (as a KML file) or to other installed app (eg. Google Earth) ✓ battery friendly background mode: the application suspends on exit and is woken up only when you move significantly (detected using cell towers signal); most of the time it just sleeps and the GPS hardware is powered off to preserve battery✓ uses the official Latitude API, authentication and authorization flow is based on OAuth2 (and 2-step verification is ok)✓ automatic relaunch: if the application gets killed for whatever reason (eg, after a power cycle) and background mode was enabled, the application is automatically relaunched in the background on the first location change event✓ fake location support: you can disable GPS usage completely and input a fake place name to be used as your location✓ security: your credentials are securely transmitted from your iPhone directly to the services and never sent to our or any third party servers✓ you can tune most configurable parameters (gps accuracy, timeouts, local notifications, etc)PlaceTrack uses Google Latitude but is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google Inc.
What's New
☂ better exception handling to prevent unexpected app crashes in case facebook checkin data is incompletev2.4✓ iOS6 and iPhone5 optimizations ✓ auto standby disabled when the phone is connected to a power source (this way you can keep the app in foreground and get frequent updates while driving, etc) ✓ PlaceTrack can now open locations in Apple native Map app ✓ improved location discovery for facebook contacts ☂ fixed a bug that could prevent PlaceTrack from enabling background mode properly ☂ fixed a bug that could cause PlaceTrack to crash when in foreground ☂ minor other bug fixes
PlaceTrack: background Latitude updater