how to get gps location android

Question

I am trying to have a constant gps listener that will send its location (long and lat coordinates) to a web server every x mins. On a button click it will also send its loca

Answer 1

One method is to use Timer and TimerTask

Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new SendLocationTask(), 0, 60000);

class SendLocationTask extends TimerTask{
    public abstract void run(){
        // send position info here
    }
}