LocationManager returns old cached “Wifi” location with current timestamp

Question

I am trying to get the current location. For that I implement a LocationListener and register it for both the network and the GPS provider:

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Answer 1

I have been facing the same issues until I made some changes to my code.

What happened is that I was attaching the same LocationListener when requesting for both GPS and Network location updates and I was getting "weird" issues including getting old WIFI location updates with current time.

Here's my old code:

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 10000, 0, locationListener);
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 10000, 0, locationListener);

Apparently that is a rather "unsafe" thing to do (sorry, Android newbie here) and so I changed it to:

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 10000, 0, networkLocationListener);
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 10000, 0, gpsLocationListener);

Of course I had to define 2 separate onLocationChanged block of codes to handle the 2 listeners.

Well, it did solve my problem. I tested this on Gingerbread (API Level: 8). Not sure if it works for you.