Kept falling asleep on the bus, so I added Location Alarms to NeoAlarm
I kept falling asleep on the bus while returning from tuition and overshooting my stop by a couple kilometers, so I built this lol. The idea is simple: pick a destination, choose a radius, and NeoAlarm rings when you get close instead of at a fixed time.
Uses MapLibre map with OSM/OpenFreeMap tiles, Photon for search, and optional OpenCage reverse geocoding.
Instead of continuously polling GPS, it uses Android geofencing + passive location updates for a two-tier privacy/battery friendlier approach.
The app also tracks health states so it can show when a location alarm is not actually ready, such as:
- location permission missing
- background location missing
- location services off
- geofence not armed
- already inside the target radius
I tested it multiple times on my Samsung, plus power-saving mode to make things a little harder, over my usual IUT-Uttara route and it fired successfully near the destination. Except if I force stop it from settings in which case it didn't fire, will look into that next, but afaik it's intended behavior from Android.