Android: check if GPS is searching, has fix or is not in use

Question

I want to know if there is a way in Android (GingerBread) to know if at the moment the GPS is doing something or not. Let me be a bit more clear: I basically want to call so

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to get the "current state" of the GPS in Android. Like others have pointed out, your best bet is to register for the onGpsStatusChanged() event and track the state.

If you are feeling adventurous, you can call call $ dumpsys location from an adb shell to get the state of the gps provider. You usually call $ adb shell from your desktop, but you can compile a native android shell app, and call an exec() from inside the shell to get the dumpsys output directly on the phone.