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user1404924
user1404924

Reputation: 95

How to improve Location accuracy of network provider? Android

I want to trace the location of my phone and can manage it without problems if I try to get the location by GPS_Provider.... also with a good accuracy, well no problem you think...well If I'm in a building sometimes we don't have a GPS signal and for that reason I want to implement Network_Provider. Tha't also no problem but if I look to my accuracy I have saw an accuracy of 700 meters... well that's to much and I don't like it.

Is there a way to get the accuracy better with only a netwerk_provider?!

Hope someone can put me at the right track!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2413

Answers (1)

David Wasser
David Wasser

Reputation: 95578

No. The accuracy you get with NetworkProvider is based on the size of the mobile cells and the number of wifi base stations in Google's database of cells and wifi stations. What you get is what you get. You have no control over this. You'll get better accuracy in the center of a city, where the cell sizes are smaller and there are more wifi base stations. In the country you can get 2500 meters accuracy or 5 kilometers accuracy or more.

Of course, you can filter out location callbacks that have an accuracy that exceeds a certain threshold (if that is what you want to do).

Upvotes: 3

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