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Apparently, this can be solved by explicitly creating JmDNS service with the IPv4 address of the device.

When Geoclue is active (connected to client); as soon as the GeoclueShare's location service appears, Geoclue tries to connect to GeoclueShare. But since we advertise_nmea._tcp service before starting the socket server, there is no one listening at that address and the connection gets refused.

this is Free Software, no?
It'd be great to make it available on F-Droid.

Is the gnome desktop environment required or is it possible to use geoclueshare with xfce as well? If so how?

If I need the GPS co-ordinates in my laptop, do I need to start the app on my phone ?

RIght now, when started, I have a static page with "Location Mode", "Location Sharing" and Connected Devices. Does this app need to be in the forground ? Or can it be backgrounded ?

On that note, why run the application? Can't the app register a listener, and then when it gets a request, it could wake up, get the data and feed it to the requestor.

Sorry it these questions have been asked before. I tried to look for documentation but could not find much.

Congratulations on completion of your GSoC project. Now that Geoclue 2.3 is release and so is GNOME 3.18, can we have some documentation on how to use it ?

Currently, as a user, one downloads the app. And that's it. There is no pointer on what needs to be done on the PC.

This app only works if the phones locale uses "." as decimal separator.

So if your phone is set up for lets say French language it will not work since French use "," as decimal separator.

Because of that the NMEA format will be wrong and look something like this:

$GPGGA,233456,1234,567,N,00123,456,E,1,,7,5,75,1,M,,M,,*66

When it should look like:

$GPGGA,233456,1234.567,N,00123.456,E,1,,7.5,75.1,M,,M,,*66

The solution is actually very simple:
Add Locale.US to instances of String.format
For example:

latStr = String.format(Locale.US, latStr, degrees, minutes, symbol);

This ensures that the decimal separator is "."