Using gps get the distance a person has walked

Question

guys i am able to get the current location longitude and Latitude using the below code. I have two buttons Start walking and Stop Walking.

Onclick of

Answer 1

First of all. This is more of a ask a question about a problem and then you will receive an answer. People on this board will not do you work for you.

Now to a way to achieve what you want.

You need to use a service in order to keep track of the user and the locations. The easy way would be to incorporate the mytracks service which is available as a addon to your application or use code from mytracks in order to create your own tracking service. http://code.google.com/p/mytracks/

You could check out: http://code.google.com/p/mytracks/w/list

Answer 2

You can calculate distance between two geo locations with distanceTo() function
Location destination =new Location("gps");
destination.setLatitude(lat);
destination.setLongitude(lng);
float dist=user_location.distanceTo(destination);

Answer 3

try this

public class TestActivity extends Activity implements Runnable {
 private static final long MINIMUM_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES = 1; // in Meters
    private static final long MINIMUM_TIME_BETWEEN_UPDATES = 30000;

    protected LocationManager locationManager;
    static double n=0;
    Long s1,r1;
    double plat,plon,clat,clon,dis;
    MyCount counter;
    Thread t1;
    EditText e1;
    boolean bool=true;

Button b1,b2,b3,b4,b5;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    b1=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);<--- current position
    b2=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);<---- start moving.. calculates distance on clicking this
    b3=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button3);<--- pause
    b4=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button4);<-- resume
    b5=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button5);<-- get distance
    e1=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(
            LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 
            MINIMUM_TIME_BETWEEN_UPDATES, 
            MINIMUM_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES,
            new MyLocationListener()
    );
    b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            showCurrentLocation();
        }
});     

}
protected void showCurrentLocation() {

    Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

    if (location != null) {
        String message = String.format(
                "Current Location \n Longitude: %1$s \n Latitude: %2$s",
                location.getLongitude(), location.getLatitude()
        );
        clat=location.getLatitude();
        clon=location.getLongitude();
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, message,
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    else{
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "null location",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

}
public void start (View v){

    switch(v.getId()){

    case R.id.button2:
        t1=new Thread();
        t1.start();
        counter= new MyCount(30000,1000);
     counter.start();
     break;
    case R.id.button3:
        counter.cancel();
        bool=false;
        break;
    case R.id.button4:
        counter= new MyCount(s1,1000);
     counter.start();
     bool=true;
     break;
    case R.id.button5:

        double time=n*30+r1;
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this,"distance in metres:"+String.valueOf(dis)+"Velocity in m/sec :"+String.valueOf(dis/time)+"Time :"+String.valueOf(time),Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

    }


}


private class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener {

    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        String message = String.format(
                "New Location \n Longitude: %1$s \n Latitude: %2$s",
                location.getLongitude(), location.getLatitude()
        );

        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    public void onStatusChanged(String s, int i, Bundle b) {
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "Provider status changed",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    public void onProviderDisabled(String s) {
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this,
                "Provider disabled by the user. GPS turned off",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

    public void onProviderEnabled(String s) {
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this,
                "Provider enabled by the user. GPS turned on",
                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

}
public class MyCount extends CountDownTimer{
    public MyCount(long millisInFuture, long countDownInterval) {
    super(millisInFuture, countDownInterval);
    }
    @Override
    public void onFinish() {
        counter= new MyCount(30000,1000);
     counter.start();
     n=n+1;
    }
    @Override
    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        s1=millisUntilFinished;
        r1=(30000-s1)/1000;
        e1.setText(String.valueOf(r1));


    }
    }
@Override
public void run() {
    while(bool){
  clat=location.getLatitude();
        clon=location.getLongitude();
        if(clat!=plat || clon!=plon){
            dis+=getDistance(plat,plon,clat,clon);
            plat=clat;
            plon=clon;

        }

    }

}

function for calculating distance...

public double getDistance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
    double latA = Math.toRadians(lat1);
    double lonA = Math.toRadians(lon1);
    double latB = Math.toRadians(lat2);
    double lonB = Math.toRadians(lon2);
    double cosAng = (Math.cos(latA) * Math.cos(latB) * Math.cos(lonB-lonA)) +
                    (Math.sin(latA) * Math.sin(latB));
    double ang = Math.acos(cosAng);
    double dist = ang *6371;
    return dist;
}

}