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

You can create a thread that will run in background and every x minutes you get the actual position by calling a function that does that (Note that you want to make a function that get the x,y coordinates since you will use that on button click aswel). For the code you posted :

locationManager.requestUpdates(provider, minTime, minDistance, intent);

That means that your application will send a request to gps module every x min for the whatshouldIputhere?

Good luck, Arkde