geolocation coupons tutorial

[Gail]

Your geolocation tutorial is very helpful, but it would be great if you would do a geolocation coupons tutorial that picks up where the first geolocation tutorial left off. Geolocation coupons are an important selling point when developing apps for local businesses.

[maxkatz]

Thank you for your idea.. it is indeed a good feature. I'll find a provider that offers coupons via REST API and publish another tutorial.

[maxkatz]

Here is API from CityGrid that takes latitude/longitude and returns available offers in this area. The steps would be like this:

ol
liUse Geolocation component to get current location/li
liSave current location in local storage (or use it directly)/li
liUse CityGrid Offers API to search for offers/li
/ol

If you know how to use Geolocation service and REST service, building this app is pretty simple.

[nitzanly]

Hi Max,

As always your answers are very useful.

What if I want the application to alert the user when its not active, Meaning, I want the application to sample its location every X min and if its near a location to alert the user (even if its not open)

Many thanks,
Nitzan

[Gail]

Yes, that would be very helpful. The main point of geolocation coupons is to alert a potential customer to an offer when they're nearby as that's the best time to get them into your business.

[maxkatz]

You could set a timer to invoke the geolocation every x-number of seconds.