Star Position is an Android app to track your loved contacts locations, in case you are authorized by them. The app functions via SMS messaging and without internet.
Star Position provides 2 tracking functionalities:
On Demand Location Retrieval
- The user can request one of its contacts location.
- The app sends to the requested contact an SMS asking for its location.
- Upon receiving the message, the requested contact checks whether the requester is authorized.
- If authorized it sends back an SMS with location information, if not authorized it ignores the request.
- Once the requester received back the location information message, it updates the requested contact location on the map.
Periodic Location Retrieval
- The user can set a contact as a tracking contact.
- The user can set an interval of sending location to the tracking contacts.
- The app sends its device location periodically to all tracking contacts via SMS messages.
Adding New Contact Number
When adding a new contact, the format of the contact number is crucial to identify the number as an authorized one once an SMS is received, so some carriers include the international call code whether the sender is using a national or internationl number, some carriers only do it if the sender is using an international number, so to make sure the app functions properly the following 2 cases need to be checked when addin a new contact number:
- +{International call code}{Phone number}, for example in Germany +491234567890
- {Phone number}, for example 01234567890
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