Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Android 11

With Android 11 come some new permission changes - in particular - Google is no longer allowing any application to easily request Background Location permission access. If this permission process is anything like SMS was a while back - nobody will get background location permission.

FridgeFriend was reliant on this functionality to use geofencing at the user's request - and notify you if you have come within range of a marked supermarket and need to still purchase some items. Sadly with these new restrictions this is no longer possible.

While this nice feature is gone, as long as the application is open FridgeFriend can notify you about nearby stores and needed items. I am also working to include a feature to notify you in the evening about cleaning out any items from the fridge which have gone bad and polishing up your FridgeFriend list of items so that it is ready for the next day.

Release is - sadly - not yet. Life gets in the way but we keep working. One day - I promise.

Stay tuned.

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