When GPS is not available how to get notified when the phone is in motion?

Question

I would like to detect when the phone is in motion, but not all kind of motion. For example picking up or waving the phone should not trigger.

I would like ideally

Answer 1

You can also get your location from Wifi-Networks and Cell Towers. All location providers in Android are subclasses of android.location.LocationProvider. That's probably a good place to start. I don't know that either of those would be best for you, as their "range" can be several hundreds of feet wide.