How to optimize battery usage while following user location?

[haivuw]

My goal is to animate the camera following user location.

A simple setup like this quickly warms up a google pixel 5 in a minute:

<MapView>
      <Camera followUserLocation />
</MapView>

Besides lowering fps or gps update frequency, what else can I do to reduce resource usage? Google maps runs completely cool in navigation mode, is it possible to achieve such efficiency?

[KiwiKilian]

Did you try both Locations Engines? Possibly the Google Location Engine is more efficient? https://maplibre.org/maplibre-react-native/docs/setup/library-customizations#location-engine

[haivuw]

I have only tested with mock location app on Android. Our users rely on GPS most of the time.
I guess I should set 30fps cap in our navigation mode anyway, and with that it uses ~10% battery for every minute on pixel 5 which is pretty good (still, just a bare minimum map).
Thank you.