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In the mobile Internet era, locating is now required everywhere for situations such as calling a taxi, ordering takeout, sharing a location, and finding out information about a tourist spot, all of which require precise user locations. HUAWEI Location Kit provides your app with powerful locating capabilities so it can provide your users with more convenient and precise location-based services.

What Is HUAWEI Location Kit?

HUAWEI Location Kit triangulates your app user to a precise location faster and more accurately through GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations, extending your reach to even more and diverse users from around the world.

What Are HUAWEI Location Kit's Open Capabilities?

Currently, HUAWEI Location Kit opens three main capabilities to you: fused location, geo-fencing, and activity identification. What are their strengths?

1. Fused location: fast, accurate, and precise

The fused location capability combines super GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations. It provides a set of simple and easy-to-use APIs for your app to locate your user quickly and precisely. Locating takes less than a second and boasts a success rate of 99%. In addition, the power consumption of your app can be significantly reduced through offline locating.

2. Super GPS for superb accuracy

Fused location uses the industry-leading super GPS technology, which can locate the exact side of the street where the user is located. As skyscrapers become increasingly omnipresent in cities, a superb locating accuracy is a necessity for taxi-hailing apps in order for users not to miss their taxi just because it is on the other side of the street. HUAWEI Location Kit is a good choice to solve this problem due to its superb locating accuracy. If your app is a navigation or taxi-hailing app, Location Kit powered by super GPS can hugely improve user experience. For users wanting to get a taxi or find out how to get from one place to another, an app integrated with Location Kit is perfect for seeing which side of the street they are on and improving its accuracy even further.

3. Geo-fencing for location awareness

The geo-fencing capability enables you to specify a particular area and configure rules for it in your app. When the app user leaves, enters, or stays in this specified area, your app can send notifications to the user to provide a more tailored experience. For example, you can specify a business district in your app and when the user enters the business district, your app can send the user a greeting or information about an in-store promotion. Geo-fencing is also applicable for attendance check-ins that would allow the user to check in and register their attendance when they enter the specified geofence area. In addition, Location Kit supports on-chip geo-fencing, which consumes 35% less power than app processor geo-fencing.

4. Activity identification for detecting the status and changes of the user's activity

Activity identification is particularly useful when integrated into health, fitness, and lifestyle apps. Huawei devices have multiple sensors, such as gyroscopes and acceleration sensors, which can provide low-power signals for your apps to identify user activities, such as when they are standing still, walking, running, cycling, and driving. Your app can adjust the UI based on the user activity status to provide users with tailored and precise services.

Locating Experience Improvement for Global Developers and Users

HUAWEI Location Kit has so far covered transport, food, lifestyle, tourism, and accommodation scenarios, just to name a few. In the future, it will be continuously optimized for multi-scenario and multi-mode locating to provide more precise locating services for developers and users. In addition, apps integrated with Location Kit in HMS Core are continuously increasing. Take OneMap as an example. An authoritative national map app from the Singapore Land Authority, OneMap provides detailed map information for local users. After integrating Location Kit, OneMap can locate its users quickly and precisely with a success rate of 99% and can provide transport information for users based on their location, considerably improving user experience and its popularity among users. Wongnai, a lifestyle app in Thailand, can be used to order takeout and find restaurants, hotels, and tourism attractions, as well as for other lifestyle services. After integrating Location Kit powered by the super GPS technology, Wongnai can precisely locate its users even when they are located near skyscrapers, considerably improving the overall efficiency of the takeout delivery. In addition, Wongnai can easily satisfy user requirements for finding good restaurants nearby or ordering delicious food from restaurants a bit further away. Huawei welcomes you to integrate Location Kit into your app to build a global locating capability so you can provide fast and precise locating experiences and services for your users around the world.

How Can I Integrate Location Kit?

Detailed guides are available on the HUAWEI Developer website. If you have any questions during HMS Core service integration, you can submit a question on the website for our technical personnel to answer.