Lizard insurance app mandates you give location permission, refusing access to the rest of the app otherwise. I have 0 intention of giving them this but so far have failed to find a phone number to call them (their mobile website tells me to use the app).
Until I find a different company run by living, real people, my current intention is to use the app to manage my insurance in the meantime. I don’t want to give them my location, even if it’s only while using the app, so how do I get the app to think it has my location when it actually doesn’t?
inb4 just use a computer: nah. It’s about spite at this point.
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The option you’re looking for is “mock location,” and it is buried in the developer options in the settings menu on your phone.
You will probably have to enable the developer options menu on your phone, which is done by tapping the build number in “about phone” five times. You will get a popup message when developer options are enabled, and then the Developer Options entry will appear under “System” (at least on recent Android versions) in your settings menu.
Note that this is not a complete solution. You still need a mock location app, which you will give permission via this screen to override your phone’s reported GPS location.
Any suggestion for a legit mock app?
Negative, unfortunately. I’ve never had a use case to mess with the option.
I found a few on github, though. I imagine any open source tools are probably… less… likely to be thinly disguised vectors to pwning your device.
Okie dokie
A sudden interest in cheating at pokemon go might benefit you. The majority of those spoof tools don’t modify the game, they convince your whole phone it’s somewhere else and the game goes along with it. It’s a constantly evolving cat and mouse game, so there’s a ton of tools that might not work for the game, but would still work fine for your purposes. I’d try the easiest method you find despite any warnings that it doesn’t work with pokemon go anymore.
You can enable developer mode and use the Lockito app to spoof your location.
Can you choose to only spoof it for specific apps?
android and fake GPS.
Maybe run it in bluestacks on a computer?
last time i had to do this; i got around it by using another app that provided fake gps coordinates of your choice.
for this you have to be sure that just the GPS location is being used and not Google, which can have the location from nearby wifi/Bluetooth devices
Upvote for spite!
U can use rethink DNS and route only certain apps to a VPN
Different os probably. Graphene. Dunno.
