android-location

I know similar questions have been asked before but answers were not perfect. I created an app with geofences using the sample code from android developer website. I did not use any shared preferences to store geofences as I am not removing the geofences. I am testing the app from within the geofence, but my smartphone receives notifications every time the app runs and no notifications are observed when the app is killed. Why does this happen? I think I am supposed to receive notifications even when the app is killed. MainActivity public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { @Override

I am building an Android app that will track the user's geolocation and draw their route on a map. I am using the Google Play Services location API, as described here . It is intuitive that my application requires the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission, which I put in the manifest: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/> Do I also need the ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permission? What's the use case where I need the coarse location? 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

According to the Android documentation: The Google Location Services API, part of Google Play Services, provides a more powerful, high-level framework that automatically handles location providers, user movement, and location accuracy than the platform location API in android.location . But using the fused location provider (from location APIs in Google Play services) I do not know how to check if the user has the location enabled or disabled. Using the old android.location it was easy: locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER); locationManager.isProviderEnabled

I am trying to get user location either network location or gps location or both. for that i am running a background service which implements LocationListener . i added all the require permissions in the manifest file also. here is my service public class GetLocation extends Service implements LocationListener { LocationManager lm; Location networkLocation, gpsLocation; @Override public void onCreate() { super.onCreate(); lm = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE); if (lm.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) { lm.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0

I would like to know there is a way to get location if only it changes? I know android provides this http://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html to get location updates and as it states: "If your app does navigation or tracking, you probably want to get the user's location at regular intervals. While you can do this with LocationClient.getLastLocation(), a more direct approach is to request periodic updates from Location Services. In response, Location Services automatically updates your app with the best available location, based on the currently-available