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Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home

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Re: Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home

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Post by jrlevine »

So the short story is that we're using geofencing to download news content in the background when you leave your preset "Home" location. Super useful for subway commuters. Kudos to @tolar, iOS developer and subway rider extraordinaire for coming up with it and building it in a weekend.

Re: Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home

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Post by jrlevine »

creativityhurts wrote: post #3

It would be nice if it let you set your office as well so it downloads the latest news when you're coming back home.

Cool idea. For now we just support one location, but you can make that location whatever you want (home, office, etc.)

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Post by jrlevine »

jalada wrote: post #5

I'm guessing this, like other geofencing activities, is heavy on battery? Does it only trigger once a day (in the morning or whatever) and then stop checking your location? Maybe I should just download it and try it...

I've been using it for the last few weeks and it's really not bad. Eager to hear your experience with it — jake [at] news.me

Re: Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home

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Post by jrlevine »

jalada wrote: post #5

I'm guessing this, like other geofencing activities, is heavy on battery? Does it only trigger once a day (in the morning or whatever) and then stop checking your location? Maybe I should just download it and try it...

and here's the smarter answer from @tolar: Geofencing typically relies on cell tower changes, a coarser measure of location than GPS, but one that saves on battery life.

Re: Paper Boy for News.me — Download Your News in the Background When You Leave Home

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Post by d0vs »

jrlevine wrote: post #4
creativityhurts wrote: post #3

It would be nice if it let you set your office as well so it downloads the latest news when you're coming back home.

Cool idea. For now we just support one location, but you can make that location whatever you want (home, office, etc.)

I second creativityhurts; You should really implement this feature, guys.
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