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Building Battery-Friendly Geofencing for Android Automation

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer created Muffle, an Android app that automatically silences the phone based on location using Google's GeofencingClient instead of raw GPS polling. The app uses hardware-level batching and a ForegroundService to survive reboots, consuming minimal battery. It only wakes the CPU when the user crosses a geofence boundary.

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The approach is a smart, practical solution to a common problem, but its reliance on Google Play Services limits cross-platform appeal.
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