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🚀 Building Group Track: An Open-Source Location Tracker App with Flutter

Hey, Dev Community! 👋

I’m excited to introduce Group Track, an open-source Flutter project that showcases best practices for building location-based apps. Working with location services can get tricky—finding the right solutions isn’t always straightforward. Through this project, we demonstrate how to handle the key challenges of real-time tracking, map integration, and state management to create a seamless user experience.

🛠️ What Group Track Covers

In this project, we explore several important concepts and implementations:

  • Real-Time Location Sharing 📍: Efficient tracking of user location in real time.
  • State Management with Bloc 🧠: Manage app state to ensure smooth updates and responsive UIs.
  • Google Maps Customisation 🗺️: Apply custom markers, overlays, and controls to fit your app’s needs.
  • Geofencing Integration 🏡: Set specific locations and trigger actions when users enter or leave them.
  • Background and Foreground Location Management 🔄: Ensure the app runs reliably whether it’s active or in the background.

🎯 Why We Built This Project

The goal behind Group Track was to create a resource for developers interested in location-based app development. We hope it provides insights into handling common challenges—like updating location data reliably or managing real-time state changes—all while keeping code organised and maintainable.

🔗 Explore the Code and Learn More

Whether you’re building your own location-based app or just curious about Flutter’s potential, Group Track is available as a resource to explore. Feel free to dive into the code and see how we’ve implemented these features.
👉 Check out the Group Track GitHub Repo
We hope it gives you some useful ideas for your own projects. Thanks for checking it out! 😊

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Walid LAGGOUNE

I’d love to introduce you to Pulsestracker – a backend-as-a-service for real-time location tracking. It helps developers build location-based applications without managing any infrastructure—we handle all the heavy lifting for you.

With the Pulsestracker API, you can receive live location updates directly in your frontend and also send them to your backend to store in your database effortlessly.

🚀 Get started today:

🌍 Website: Pulsestracker.com

📖 API Docs: docs.pulsestracker.com

📝 Blog & Tutorials: blog.pulsestracker.com

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MD. Shahadat Hossain

I'm MD—Shahadat Hossain from Bangladesh. I'm a fresher flutter developer. I can fetch data from the Rest API and Firebase as well. And I have MVVM architecture knowledge and I can make eye-catching UI designs. I'm committed and dedicated to my work and always learning something new.
Now I'd like to do a job or internship to increase my work ability and financial support.
Would you mind, if I got help from you about getting the opportunity to work on Flutter?

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