Google it has improved Find my Android device with respect to Cerberus app. This tool that allows you to locate your mobile phone will now work better inside buildings such as shopping centers or airports.
Finding my Android device improves its accuracy inside some buildings
Find my device is an official Google tool for devices Android that allows locating the location of a mobile or tablet. Although there are some conditions for its full use, through this tool you can find smartphones that have been lost or stolen. Taking into account the latter, it is also a protection system, since you can erase all the data on your mobile in an emergency.
Much of its usefulness then lies in being able to precisely locate where the device is. Google you are aware of this and that is why you have added a very useful enhancement in the last update. Finding my Android device improves its accuracy indoors. Specifically, we are talking about precision when detecting the device within large surfaces. Hypermarkets, airports and other shopping centers are the main suspects, and the main places where the improvement will be noticed. Of course, an official list of places where it is applied has not been provided.
This addition takes place after several years of work through Google Maps. The company already took into account the need to better detect the interiors of some areas in order to guide the user without problems. Little by little we have seen how this has been added in the Google Maps application, so it is not surprising that it reaches other services. Of course, and as this case shows, the first beneficiary is an application from Google itself.
However, we must not forget other possible cases in which these improvements to Google maps can be useful to other services. As it is the default option for GPS location on Android, other apps will eventually take advantage of this improvement. An example is a game as popular as Pokémon Go. To date, it had already benefited from the function of downloading maps from Google Maps to save data and avoid launching a request for each connection. It would not be surprising if in the not too distant future it would also benefit from this to improve the position of the player inside shopping centers or airports.
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