I'm using the Google Play Services to get user's location and I can't find a way to get the status of the different location providers (network, gps).
I was looking for some equivalent of android.location.LocationListener's methods.
The point is, I have an activity with a map, it's supposed to display user's location, and if it's not available (because he didn't turn on his gps or whatever), the app prompts a Dialog to ask him to turn on.
Any idea ? :)
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I am building a location longing app, right now i'm using fusedlocationproviderclient which is recommended in the google docs.
so when i press my location log button it requests for location updates and in the location listener when i get the location results i remove location updates i did this to save battery (because fusedlocationproviderclient does not have any method to request only a single location update).
The problem is
-(1) that when i press the button my loction gets logged but it takes time sometimes >30s but google maps does not take so much time why??
-(2) i read some on some blog that google maps uses network provider or wifi or bluetooth to get first a rough location, but should't fusedlocationproviderclient also use all of the method.
-(3) So the bottom question is does google maps use fusedlocationproviderclient or not and if yes how does it implement it to get such fast results
I am creating an application in Android like OLA cab. I want to show the cab's location on Google Maps, for this I need to read data from the cab's GPS device. I know how to get current location of my device, but my problem is how to get the location of the other GPS device?
Each cab must update its current location to server periodically. When the user opens the apps the cabs locations must be retrieved from server and update it in google map.
For your requirement you have to make real time location update on both server and client side.
How can I check if Google Play location services are enabled? None of the answers on StackOverFlow address the issue directly. I'm not interested in last location, whetever or not GPS and network providers are enabled in system or anything, I just want to know, if Google Play location services are enabled.
I tried using getLocationAvailability().isLocationAvailable(), but it returned true (after location was retrieved for first time) even after I disabled Google Play location services, which then prevented the application from working correctly.
Image of setting (first one on the image, ignore arrow):
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Is there any way to check for this?
In Android What are the location determination strategies for
Real-time GPS location determination (for user real-time user location tracking).
Periodic GPS location determination (for periodic user location determination).
For most accurate GPS location value.
I am trying to make mobile applications of type 1 and type 2. Please guide me regarding the same
You can use Google Play Services API which is friendly and simple to use or GPS location API directly. Google Play Services API can return current user location or you can even subscribe to location updates. Take look official documentation.
Also there is not only GPS, but also mobile Network and Wi-Fi based location built in in Android. You can use all of them simultaneously thru FusedLocation provider to determine user location.
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How do apps like Fake Location spoof their location in a way that fools other apps like Google Maps, FourSquare and Facebook into thinking that this location is valid?
I have searched lots of similar questions and a lot of answers are around making your own mock location provider which I tried but Google Maps is still at the correct location not the fake.
To be clear I dont want my fake location provider inside of my main app, I want to be able to spoof the location to fool other apps that are not directly linked to believe this location is the valid one