Turn GPS on programmatically like Ola Cabs Android app

Question

I am working on an application and need to integrate GPS location. I want to switch the GPS on programmatically. The condition is: I don\'t want to send the user to the Setting

Answer 1

Ola Cabs is using the newly released Settings API to achieve this functionality. As per the new API the user is not required to navigate to the settings page to enable location services giving a seamless integration for the same. Please read below for more details:

https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/SettingsApi