How to enable gps in Android

Question

How to open the gps in Android when it is closed to retrieve the current position. I test two method

private void turnGPSOn(){
    String provider = Settings         


        

Answer 1

It's inappropiate to enable GPS from the code. You can't fo that.

There used to be an exploit that allowed the GPS to be turned on by an app with no special permissions. That exploit no longer exists as of 2.3 (in most ROMs).