When I open my home page I want to get longitude and latitude of the device currently situated in, so I can display current whether in homepage. Using GPS it works well but I want to get long. and lati. as soon as I land on homepage without having a user turn on the GPS is there a wayout for that??? as just for whether user has to open gps and then access it and my app is not whether based app.
Location data is required for LatLng to work properly. I would suggest prompting the user to turn their location data on when they open the app if it's off.
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For what I am currently doing, I need to spoof my phone's location to specific coordinates. The only problem is that the location I need is not easy to spot on a map (it is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), and all of the location spoofing apps I can find have you select it on a map, which I can't do.
Are there any apps that let me just punch in the latitude and longitude of where I want my phone to think that it is?
EDIT: To be clear, I am setting a fake location, not getting my current location. I am also not putting this in an app being written, but putting this as a separate app on my phone.
I created an android app, which stores user's home location and count distance between home and his/her actual location, in a Service class.
Now I would like to programme feature that would decide based on counted distance, if a user is:
at home
away
getting closer
distancing from home
This should be similar to Google Now, that can predict that you are for example going home. If someone had some examples, I would be sooo grateful
To implement such kinda work, you need to implement GeoFence in your android app.
GeoFence gives you idea about user entered/exited from a defined area. If you set home location as base location and radius to 500m then it gives you entered callback you are within 500m of your home.
When you go away 500m from your home location then it gives you exited callback. To know about whether you are home location then at a interval of few minutes you can poll GPS coordinates then can identify whether you are at your home location.
https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/Geofence.html
I'm making an app that uses;
map.setMyLocationEnabled(true)
This is in the onCreate. However I feel it is not right to have users always have location on. There must be an option to turn it off.
I would like a alert/message box (I'm unaware of the technical name) on the app open asking whether the user wishes to turn the location services on, or keep it off.
How does one do this?
setMyLocationEnabled Won't actually enable the user's GPS. The user will have to do that by himself otherwise the location will not function.
Just to show that this is true, here's a some-what opposite question that I answered: Android google map on click of current location button show alert box if gps not enabled
I am developing an Android applicaiton that tracks the user through GPS. I am able to get the location of the user when the location is changed by implementing the "onLocationChanged()" in every specified time and distance. But the problem is, i need to get the user location after every specified time even when the locationof the user is not changed. How can i accomplish this. Can you help me ?
i have an app that takes the user exact GPS location and save it to a database when he presses a button.
i need his exact location(i.e location that is Fixed with GPS)
i used onLocationChanged() and GPS_EVENT_FIRST_FIX, but the problem was if the user was standing still and already had a fix, then he pressed a button, the app would wait as it neither of the above will launch.
and i was wondering if there was any way i can check if the GPS already has a fix on the device's location.