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The OpenCellID Android library was created for making it as easy as possible for Android software developers to support OpenCellID as well as to use the data collected by the OpenCellID community. | The OpenCellID Android library was created for making it as easy as possible for Android software developers to support OpenCellID as well as to use the data collected by the OpenCellID community. | ||
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# Read cellid data from the GSM modem and GPS data from the GPS receiver and upload the data to the OpenCellID community servers | # Read cellid data from the GSM modem and GPS data from the GPS receiver and upload the data to the OpenCellID community servers |
Revision as of 00:38, 21 June 2014
ContentsIntroductionThe OpenCellID Android library was created for making it as easy as possible for Android software developers to support OpenCellID as well as to use the data collected by the OpenCellID community. The library mainly provides three features:
Why should my app contribute data to OpenCellID?The data collected by the OpenCellID community has a multitude of benefits for Android app publishers:
Purpose of the libraryThe OpenCellID library for Android provides all functionality required for uploading cell information from any Android Smartphone to the OpenCellID community servers. The OpenCellID library is an Android component. It was built to help other developers in order to reduce the time and efforts needed to create the similar functionality in their applications. It has been designed for an as easy as possible integration into existing Android applications. Quality assuranceBefore publishing version 1.0 of the OpenCellID library ENAiKOON has integrated it into several of its Android apps with more than 50.000 users allowing the OpenCellID team to ensure that the library is stable and does not interfere with the host application. The OpenCellID Android library is provided as an Android library project for easy integration. Source code and documentationThe complete source code of the library including documentation is available here on github. OpenCellID APIIt is not required to understand the OpenCellID API details for integrating the OpenCellID library into your Android application because all this is handled by the OpenCellID library. In case you are curious anyhow, all details regarding the OpenCellID API can be found here. |