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androidxamarinlocationmanager
User382
User382

Reputation: 874

Set Location Manager RequestLocationUpdate

I am new to Android and Xamarin world. I am trying to create a separate class for Location Manager to be used in different activities. Here is my code

using System;
using Android.Content;
using Android.Locations;


namespace MyLocation
{
 public class LocationManagerActivity 
 {
    private LocationManager _locationManager;
    private Geocoder _geocoder;
    string bestProvider;
    private Context locationContext;

    public LocationManagerActivity (Context lContext)
    {
        locationContext = lContext;
    }

    private void getCurrentLocation()
    {
        string provider = LocationManager.GpsProvider;

        if (_locationManager.IsProviderEnabled (provider)) {

            _locationManager.RequestLocationUpdates (1000, 100, null, locationContext);
        }
    }

    private void InitializeLocationManager()
    {
        _geocoder = new Geocoder (locationContext);

        _locationManager = (LocationManager)locationContext.GetSystemService(Context.LocationService);

        var criteria = new Criteria() { Accuracy = Accuracy.NoRequirement };
        bestProvider = _locationManager.GetBestProvider(criteria, true);

        Location lastKnownLocation = _locationManager.GetLastKnownLocation(bestProvider);

        if (lastKnownLocation != null)
        {
            string temp = string.Format("Last known location lat: {0}, long: {1}",
                lastKnownLocation.Latitude, lastKnownLocation.Longitude);

            //string tag = "Last known location: ";

            //Log.Info (tag, temp);
        }

        _locationManager.RequestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, 60000, 20, this);

    }
}
}

The problem is in the line 

locationManager.RequestLocationUpdates (1000, 100, null, locationContext);

Argument 4 has to be Android.App.PendingIntent. How do i set it as the class is not an activity.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1069

Answers (1)

kevskree
kevskree

Reputation: 4602

There is an overload of RequestLocationUpdates that takes in a LocationListener. See The docs.

So you can have your class implement ILocationListener in Xamarin and implement the required methods such as onLocationChanged etc. If you're not doing this in an Activity (or something that inherits from Java.Lang.Object) you should have your class inherit from Java.Lang.Object as it handles the Handle/Disposing for you.

public class LocationManagerActivity : Java.Lang.Object, ILocationListener

Then you can do this

_locationManager.RequestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, 60000, 20, this);

Upvotes: 2

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