My question is can you get location coordinates latitude and longitude using WIFI or any other source when location is off or disabled. Basically I want to get current location when the GPS is not enabled
If location permission isn't granted or location settings are off, no. That's on purpose- the user doesn't want to give you their location, respect that. Now if it's just GPS but not location that's off you can use coarse location. That uses wifi only, is less accurate, but can be used with less battery drain than GPS.
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I need accurate location updates. When using FusedLocationServices from GooglePlayServices, even if I set HighAccuracy, it will get locations from Wi-Fi and cellular when GPS is not available. How do I request locations ONLY from GPS, and with no updates coming in when GPS is not available?
Use LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, ...)
this removed the need for GooglePlayServices.Location completely.
I am using Fused Location Api for getting the latitude and longitude.It's mentioned in the documents that it uses GPS,Wifi and network to return the most accurate location of the user.I want to ask is that will it return the position if the GPS in my phone is switched off?
Fused Location Provider will automatically choose the best location from the options available. It will select from GPS or Network location Provider. So if the device GPS is not on, you should still be able to get a location based on the network location provider, if that is enabled on the device.
You will need to have permissions for ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION and ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION to receive both kinds of locations.
I've got an app which sets up two location listeners (one for GPS and one for network) and then chooses the location from the best one available, which should be GPS. However, if GPS is turned on, it will always choose the GPS location, even if the person starts the app up indoors. This has led to the GPS location being used even if the last known GPS location is from miles away and the network location is actually much more accurate.
Is there any way around this issue or is it just something that will need to be accepted as an issue with using GPS & network? Is the standard practice just to assume that GPS is always more accurate even though it's possible that it might not be in certain instances?
If you are using the network provider to fetch the location they are not very accurate when compared to GPS. So it can be a good idea to fetch the accuracy of your position using network provider when you are indoors as GPS doesnt function well indoors and you can use GPS to get the location updates when you are outdoor.
You can use GetAccuracy() method of Location class and see for the value it returns. Let Say if getAccuracy() retruns 25 then you can leave this value wait for another gps value until you get the desired value. Remember the value it returns is the radius of the circle in meters.
I am building an android application.
I can get GPS coordinates fine using
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
But when I try to use the network provider (editing the line, not doing two registers)
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 0,0,locationListener);
I get no coordinates.
I am checking if I have coordinates doing a println(location.toString()) inside the locationListener.
Both GPS and WIFI location are enabled on the device (and, as far as I can tell, other applications manage to use WIFI location)
Am I missing something? Is there a special procedure to use NETWORK_PROVIDER ?
(I have only "fine location" permissions, but the docs explicitly say this also allows "coarse location")
gps –> (GPS, AGPS): Name of the GPS location provider. This provider determines location using satellites. Depending on conditions, this provider may take a while to return a location fix. Requires the permission android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.
network –> (AGPS, CellID, WiFi MACID): Name of the network location provider. This provider determines location based on availability of cell tower and WiFi access points. Results are retrieved by means of a network lookup. Requires either of the permissions android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.
I want to show a dialog while the location of the device is determined. I also want to use both the wifi and gps provider. When the location changes, the latitude and longitude values should be updated. I looked for an example but I didn't find anything.