Sunday, 7 April 2013

Location Manager: Getting User Current Location using GPS Example in Android

main.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/gps_text"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />
</LinearLayout>

CurrentLocationActivity.java


package com.rajeshvijayakumar.gps;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.location.Address;
import android.location.Geocoder;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class CurrentLocationActivity extends Activity {

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    private TextView gpsLocationView;
    private List<Address> addresses;
    private    String text;
    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)    {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    gpsLocationView=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.gps_text);
    /* Use the LocationManager class to obtain GPS locations */
    LocationManager mlocManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    LocationListener mlocListener = new MyLocationListener();
    mlocManager.requestLocationUpdates( LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, mlocListener);
    }

    /* Class My Location Listener */
    public class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener    {

        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location loc){
            loc.getLatitude();
            loc.getLongitude();
            Geocoder gcd = new Geocoder(getApplicationContext(), Locale.getDefault());
             try {
                addresses = gcd.getFromLocation(loc.getLatitude(),loc.getLongitude(), 1);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            String text=(addresses!=null)?"City : "+addresses.get(0).getSubLocality()+"\n Country : "+addresses.get(0).getCountryName():"Unknown Location";

            String locationValue = "My current location is: "+ text;
            gpsLocationView.setText(locationValue);
        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderDisabled(String provider){
            Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(),"Gps Disabled",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderEnabled(String provider){
            Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(),"Gps Enabled",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras){
            }
    }
}


Source code :  Download this example

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for this tutorial, by inspiring with this tutorial i have created a program in which GPS running in services, my program running well but my problem is whenever i am driving for few minutes its work fine its update longitude and latitude but after some time this will not updating longitude and latitude and terminate my program if you have any idea why this is happen please guide me with solution thanks in advance

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  2. If GPS satellite / network signal is weak.......You can't update location frequently

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  3. its not work for me help pls ... i got fital error..

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