Collect location periodically

[Ana06]

Currently, we collect the location in the moment of sending the daily test.

We want to collect the location periodically and to send it to the database as it can improve predictions significantly. We want to collect the location as frequently as possible without having a big impact in the battery. The best would be collecting it every 5 minutes, but this is probably not possible, so doing it every one hour, or more often if another app is using the location, would be more enough and more efficient.

This data should be sent to the same MongoDB database than the daily test but to a different collection. It could be sent once a day for example. It can be sent together with the daily test, but if the daily test is not sent in a maximum of 4 days we should sent the location data to avoid losing information and to avoid that the app take up a lot of phone memory.

[apoorv9990]

Is this project still being maintained? I would like to help if it is.

[Ana06]

@apoorv9990 I am not working full time on this currently but if you want to work on this I'll review it and help you with any doubt you have. The app is being used in the Bip4cast project in which the San Juan de Dios hospital and the Complutense University of Madrid are involved, so I suppose that there will be more people working on this soon.

So feel free to work on this issue! 😄

[apoorv9990]

Okay thanks. I was asking because I am not able to sign up using Marshmallow. So I will start working on that.

[Ana06]

That's may be because of the configuration of MongoDB. I'll add a contribution page on Sunday to make it easy for you and future contributors. 😀

[apoorv9990]

Thank you that will be helpful. I will check out the configuration in the meanwhile.

[Ana06]

@apoorv9990 sorry I didn't add the contribution page on Sunday. I have just added it: https://github.com/Ana06/medical-data-android/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

I hope that you find it useful to set up the project. If you have any problem do not hesitate to ask me and I'll try to help you. And feel free to improve the contributing guide too. 😉