Is it possible to know my location came from gps or glonass?

Question

Suppose the device support both gps and glonass(support at the hardware level).

Now when I get location by the android.location API, is it possible to know the hardw

Answer 1

As @DavidWasser said, it is possible to know that. I wanted to share some codes in addition to @DavidWasser 's answer.

You should have LocationManager object:

private LocationManager locationManager; 

and you initialize that with:

locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

Request location updates with your implements LocationListener, GpsStatus.Listener class:

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0,
        new GPSLocationListener());

GPSLocationListenerClass:

private class GPSLocationListener implements LocationListener,
        GpsStatus.Listener {
    private boolean isGPSFix;

    public void onGpsStatusChanged(int event) {
        checkGlonassFeature(); // the method which checks if locations from GLONASS or GPS
        switch (event) {
        case GpsStatus.GPS_EVENT_SATELLITE_STATUS:
            if (mLastLocation != null)
                isGPSFix = (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - lastGPStime) < 3000;
            if (isGPSFix) { // A fix has been acquired.
                Toast toast = Toast.makeText(GPSLocationService.this, "GPS has a fix.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
                toast.show();
            } else { // The fix has been lost.
                Toast toast = Toast.makeText(GPSLocationService.this, "GPS DOES NOT have a fix.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
                toast.show();
            }
            break;
        case GpsStatus.GPS_EVENT_FIRST_FIX:
            Toast toast = Toast.makeText(GPSLocationService.this, "GPS got first fix.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
            toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
            toast.show();
            isGPSFix = true;
            break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        //  Do works here
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
        String statusDescription = "unknown";
        switch (status) {
        case LocationProvider.OUT_OF_SERVICE:
            statusDescription = "OUT_OF_SERVICE";
            break;
        case LocationProvider.AVAILABLE:
            statusDescription = "AVAILABLE";
            break;
        case LocationProvider.TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE:
            statusDescription = "TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE";
            break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(GPSLocationService.this, "GPS feature is active", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
        toast.show();
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(GPSLocationService.this, "GPS feature is passive", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
        toast.show();
    }
}

and Finally your control method:

public void checkGlonassFeature() {
    boolean isGPSFromGlonass = false;
    final GpsStatus gs = this.locationManager.getGpsStatus(null);
    final Iterable it = gs.getSatellites();
    for (GpsSatellite sat : it) {
        if(sat.usedInFix()){
            if(sat.getPrn() > 65 && sat.getPrn() < 88)
                isGPSFromGlonass = true;
            else
                isGPSFromGlonass = false;
        }
        else
            isGPSFromGlonass = false;
    }
    if(isGPSFromGlonass){
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Location from GLONASS", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
        toast.show();
    }
    else{
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Location from GPS", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
        toast.show();
    }
}

Note that it is only addition to above answer. Good luck.