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hemanth kumar
hemanth kumar

Reputation: 3078

Check if the device is STILL (Not Moving) to ignore onlocation changed events in Android

Hi i am working on a real time location tracking application where i have used Fused Location provider Api. I was able to get the location updates when the device is moving. But i was also able to get the location updates even if the device is stationary on a table when i am indoor. So I have calculated the distance between the last location and the current location triggered in Onlocationchanged event and checked whether the distance is less than 30 metres, to know the device is actually moving. But sometimes the distance i get is greater than 400 metres (indoor/Device is Stationary). How Can i ignore the onlocationchange event when i am indoor? Any suggestions are appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1183

Answers (1)

Budius
Budius

Reputation: 39836

Unfortunately I don't believe there's much you can do about it.

The reason you see those updates with great changes it's because indoors, you won't get a GPS lock, so the device is relying on cell tower and WiFi hotspot triangulation to determine your location, and something around 200m to 1km is the best you'll get with this kind of technology.

A possible attempt to hack-around it would be to:

  • check the source and precision of the location update
  • use the activity recognition API to guess if the device really moved

but both are a hack, around the technology limitation and might not be as reliable.

Upvotes: 1

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