How to Obtain Latitude and Longitude in Android

Question

How to obtain Latitude and longitude from the mobile device if GPS is not available... My mobile has internet Connection through wifi and gprs connection.... Can we get the lats and long from this?

Answer 1

edited : Network and also GPS Provider Location

Yes we cam...try this

LocationManager manager = (LocationManager) Context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
manager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);

// additionally (you have to implement LocationListener)
manager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 0, 0.0f, new LocationListener() ...)

After location you can use in locationlistener...

 @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {                          
         Log.d("a","onLocationChanged: lat="+location.getLatitude());
         Log.d("a","onLocationChanged: lat="+location.getLongitude());                 
    }

hope it helps..

Answer 2

Yes you can. Have a look at the documentation

When you have a Location from the system. you can use methods getLongitude() and getLatitude()

For a full example have a look at this code - lines 122-124 to set up receiving updates and lines 201-209 to get the Location.