Android's most accurate Location API

Question

In order to work, my app requires a location API. I intend use the Mapbox platform to customize its design (since Google Maps does not provide this level of customization, a

Answer 1

In android also there are three types of location :

1. GPS_PROVIDER
2. NETWORK_PROVIDER
3. PASSIVE_PROVIDER

So, as per my coding experience I came to know that if you use :

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 5000, 10, new MyLocationListener());

you will get precision upto 14+ decimal places.

But if you use fusion of them like this :

LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient, mLocationRequest, my_google_listener);

you will get precision upto 6 to 7 decimal places. try it !!! reference

But note few things here that, GPS Provider takes time to fetch location while Google Location is much faster as it gets data from API call to its google server database.

GPS works offline while google provider gets the location via mobile or wifi data.