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vjeta
vjeta

Reputation: 1214

Phone location on call or SMS

I am an android applications developer. I just wanted to know that can we get the geo location of a phone number just by calling or sending an SMS to that number? Like in whatsapp, we can see the last seen time of the person, likewise can we get the last seen time with the exact last location. This is found in facebook messenger. I am just curious if it is possible using just a phone number.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 572

Answers (2)

Smile2Life
Smile2Life

Reputation: 1921

Android apps that share current user(phone number) location identify there users by phone numbers, i think you already sent an SMS to Whatsup or Viber service before using it and you must put your phone number in your Facebook profile, those services can stock last known location of there users periodically (each 2 hours) or each time the user use this app in there servers and share it with other users check my detailed answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/21714011/1889341

Upvotes: 1

phemt.latd
phemt.latd

Reputation: 1803

No, the call and sms data not contains position(as geo localiation) and Android is not able to get them on receiving call that i know. The only way is to create a custom Service android that catch the event of outgoing call and send the position to your own API server on to register this event and work with it.

Whats app and facebook are not normal SMS message. Are response to a web service that contains custom data. The facebbok and whatsapp developer have created a data structure that aggregate the informations of geo localization to the message data.

Upvotes: 0

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