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user4924082

Reputation:

How can we get the location in android without turning on GPS

How can we retrieve the location in android with out turning on GPS. I was able to get the location using the GPS,NETWORK Providers. When the GPS was disabled not able to get the coordinates. Could anyone help me out. Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4200

Answers (2)

Vikas Mane
Vikas Mane

Reputation: 789

Go through this tutorial. http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/AndroidLocationAPI/article.html

Here is the sample code you can use to retrieve location from default location provider.

public class ShowLocation extends Activity implements LocationListener {
  private LocationManager locationManager;
  private String provider;


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

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    // Get the location manager
    locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    // Define the criteria how to select the locatioin provider -> use
    // default
    Criteria criteria = new Criteria();
    provider = locationManager.getBestProvider(criteria, true);
    Location location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(provider);

    // Initialize the location fields
    if (location != null) {
      System.out.println("Provider " + provider + " has been selected.");
      onLocationChanged(location);
    }
  }

  /* Request updates at startup */
  @Override
  protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, 400, 1, this);
  }

  /* Remove the locationlistener updates when Activity is paused */
  @Override
  protected void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    locationManager.removeUpdates(this);
  }

  @Override
  public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
    double lat = (double) (location.getLatitude());
    double lng = (double) (location.getLongitude());
  }

  @Override
  public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

  }

  @Override
  public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "Enabled new provider " + provider,
        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

  }

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

Add the following permissions to your application in your AndroidManifest.xml file

  • INTERNET
  • ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
  • ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

DJphy
DJphy

Reputation: 1302

Getting Location using network providers:

boolean network_enabled = isNetworkAvailable();
Location location = null;
LocationManager locManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

if(network_enabled)
location = SLOC_locManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);

The isNetworkAvailabel() function:

private boolean isNetworkAvailable() {

    ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) SLOC_context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo activeNetworkInfo = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    return activeNetworkInfo != null && activeNetworkInfo.isConnected();

}

Upvotes: 0

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