Google releases Awareness APIs for accessing location, weather, and activity data

Google today announced the availability of two new Awareness application programming interfaces (APIs), which were first unveiled last month at the Google I/O developer conference. The APIs give developers a new way to do things in apps based on information about the context in which people are using Android devices.
The Snapshot API gives developers a way to get information about the current situation for a given device and its users. This applies to activity like walking or driving, the proxim