About this app

With Magical Location Clock, you can easily and in style share your location with your family or friends. Using fully animated widgets you too can get that magical feeling when your loved ones get home safely or at work.

Note: This app is mainly focused on parental monitoring so that parents can see whether their children get home safe for example. Spying or surveillance is not the purpose of this app and never will be. You can always see who has access to your location in a group and leave the group or create a group that hides the exact location (but the clock will still work).

Free and full version:
• Create or join a group
• Add as many locations as you like
• Let your family or friends join!
• Add as many widgets as you like
• The widgets animate when someone changes location or when tapped
• Choose from the default themes or from user created themes (as shared or from https://themes.mlc.jolanrensen.nl)
• Privacy! When creating a group, the exact locations of people on the map can be turned off for better privacy. The clock will still work though!
• No ads at the moment (besides for my own app)!
• Android 12 ready with dark mode and edge-to-edge design!
• Wear OS tile/app

Full version only:
• Have more than one group at a time
• Create and share your own themes using the extensive theme editor where you can customize:
- The background
- The location text (colors, size, custom font, etc.)
- The people- and group-picture size, frames (colors, size, custom SVGs)
- The hands (colors, size, custom SVGs)
- The shadows
• Add people to a group using an API (aka people with a GPS logging app on an iPhone or other device)
• Support the dev :)

I've been working on this app by myself since May 2018 while studying at university. It's been hundreds if not thousands of hours of work and I've learned an immense amount in the process. There are probably still bugs in the app and things that can be improved, so please do not hesitate to tell me what you think!

This app works well with Widget Screensaver made by myself. With it, you can display the clocks in a screensaver!
It also works with Wearable Widgets. Using this app you can display a clock on your smartwatch too!

For help, you can email me at mlc@jolanrensen.nl or visit the XDA thread at https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/widget-testers-magical-location-clock-t3930384

New features

3.1:
New JSONPath/XPath support in API
Fixed bugs in theme editor, widget, setting image in group

Before:
Restart button in notification
Large code overhaul (17000+ lines changed)
Android 12 support: Widget can be reconfigured
Wear OS support back and now free! App+tile
Group data API (check the top-right menu in a group)

App Permissions

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.