Do I also need the ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission? No. What’s the use case where I need the coarse location? If you do not ask for ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, but you need location data, and you are willing for that data to be fuzzy (say, up to around a city block from the user’s position). In the case of … Read more
First you need to define a LocationListener to handle location changes. int LOCATION_REFRESH_TIME = 15000; // 15 seconds to update int LOCATION_REFRESH_DISTANCE = 500; // 500 meters to update …. private final LocationListener mLocationListener = new LocationListener() { @Override public void onLocationChanged(final Location location) { //your code here } }; Then get the LocationManager and … Read more
Looks like we’re coding the same application 😉 Here is my current implementation. I’m still in the beta testing phase of my GPS uploader app, so there might be many possible improvements. but it seems to work pretty well so far. /** * try to get the ‘best’ location selected from all providers */ private … Read more