Android: how and why not to use ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
Originally published at Moishe Beshkin. You can comment here or there.
I will start from why you should avoid using ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION directive in your Manifest.xml file. ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION allows you to get approximate location of user’s device. It is detected not by GPS, but using different means - wifi hotspots, network triangulation etc. Actually, it is pretty accurate and it is worth considering to use in case [...]