It's a real drag (heh) to drag the GPS all the way from Iceland to England each time I boot the VM in Genymotion. Any idea on how I can change the default location for it? Thanks.
That's the behavior for the "Personal Use" license. The Business or Indie licenses keeps the last GPS position in memory when you turn the device off.
You can also change the GPS position through command line with these paid modes.
BTW, it is not just Iceland's position, it is Dalvik ;-)
After I read this qustion and answer of eyal-lezmy, for a couple of days I thought that how can I overcome this issue . Then I found a solution.
An app might be use that provide a fake location for android.
I use this one. Now I don't use built-in GPS menu of Genymotion.
This is useful when testing my app.
Thanks eyal-lezmy. (I've given reputation)
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We have a ReactNative app, running on both iOS and Android.
We developed our own native module for GPS updates.
On iOS, it's working OK !
On Android, we're using FusedLocationProviderClient.
My problem: in some very rare cases on android, less than a few % of our GPS data, we see GPS data with correct latitude, but longitude keeps jumping around the real one (e.g. this seems to happen on some Samsung S9+)
See this screenshot
This bug only last a few minutes, then seems to resolve on its own...
Has anyone encoutered this bug too ?
If so, how did you fix it ?
(note: I can add code samples if you think it can help, but I'm having big difficulties reproducing this bug myself, so I doubt it's useful in this case...)
GPS takes awhile to lock, and depending on the phone, it can take quite awhile and be unreliable. The best thing you can do is check the accuracy that is reported, and also live poll the user's location when they open a relevant activity so by the time you need the location, it most likely has an accurate lock.
Also if needed, ask the user to apply their highest location accuracy settings. Details on how to do this can be found here
GPS takes some time to latch, and there should be at least 3 satellites to be able to latch for the device, if the user is indoor, it is nearly impossible to latch.
You will have to check for the accuracy, on testing I have found that if accuracy value becomes 2.9 (may be different on different devices, but till now I haven't seen) then your device location is set.
Or give some time to devise and record coordinates when you think it's feasible depending upon accuracy.
Hope this may help you...
Is there a way to give my Genymotion android emulator a fake location, like USA for example, so I can test mobile ads and some other stuff?
You can change the GPS location and can set Latitude and Longitude according to your need, check below Screen Shots:
On the right hand side corner in you Genymotion Emulator you can see the GPS option,
When you click this option you will get one dialog as below:
Here you can change Latitude and Longitude.
Hope it help..
When using Genymotion free (personal) edition, you lost the position you gave when closing the genymotion.
To provide programming comfort to yourself, an app might be use that provide a fake location for android. There are a lot of apps at Google Play.
I use this one.
I know it sounds weird. It happens that those Locating APIs regarding WiFi/celluar assistance are disabled in most Android handsets in China. That is, I could hear the callbacks of GPS_PROVIDER when I was out of the building. But if I was in the building, I would never hear the callbacks of NETWORK_PROVIDER. As a result, my app won't be able to locate if put indoor. (I did some experiments with handsets shipped from the states. My app located perfectly well with the NETWORK_PROVIDER if put indoor.)
My guess is that those Chinese Android handsets have sort of castrated the Android OS so that any API related to WiFi/celluar assistance locating has been removed.
But my app still needs to locate. A city-level accuracy will do.
So my question is, is there any possible solution for my situation. Right now I'm considering:
IP address reverse-lookup. But the accuracy is far worse than city-level.
Let my app collect any necessary information (such as router MAC address, celluar tower info) and send them to a third-party server. That server would locate and send back location info to me.
Find (magically) a third-party SDK and hopefully that SDK would do the trick.
Thanks in advance!
IP lookup is fine. You can also try skyhook wireless's location SDK: here
iOS in the early days are using them, and they are actually better/more accurate than Google's location service.
It is definetly possible. You look at the services of Imere's ULaP.
I am testing an Android GPS tracking application in the Emulator and I am running into a problem when trying to figure out if the last known location is stale or not. Getting the system time gives me the correct time, but when I call location.getTime() for the last known location the time returned is off by a few hours. I did some more testing and found out that every time I send a GPS location from the Emulator control tab in Eclipse (similar to geo fix), the location's time is advanced by one second. This makes no sense at all! I would appreciate any insights into this problem.
As discussed this appears to be a bug in the emulator (I was able to repeat it as well). I filed a bug report at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27272 if anyone wants to add details, star it, and/or follow along.
This bug has been fixed in the ToT dev branch for API 26. We will cherry-pick this fix to other branches and hopefully the public available system images will see the bug fix in the near future.
If any issue persists, please report at Google issue tracker they will re-open to examine.
I am using SonyEricsson X10i phone. I have developend an application that just shows the current location of a user. Now the problem is When i turn on my application it just keep searching. It is not showing anything. Even if i try to use built in navigation system it does not work. I have turned on GPS receiver. My firmware version is 1.6 and kernel version is 2.6. I am not sure but i came to know from some resource that 1.6 firmware does not support GPS. Let me know if someone knows the solution.
Are you indoor or outdoor? GPS
usually only works well outdoor.
Do you
have turned 'network' as a data
source on in your location settings?
Allowing triangulation/cell
towers/wifi networks to get the
location if GPS/satellite is not
available.