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southerton81
southerton81

Reputation: 1109

Getting the Android GpsLocationProvider object

I want to get to the class GpsLocationProvider on Android. I want to call a few methods of this class, like setMinTime(). Here is my code:

LocationManager lm = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
GpsLocationProvider pr = (GpsLocationProvider)lm.getProvider(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

And the problem is GpsLocationProvider class is unresolved. I know that it is located in com.android.internal.location.GpsLocationProvider , but such import is unresolved as well, and import com.android.internal.*; doesn't help to resolve ``GpsLocationProvider` too. What does this mean? Thank you for any tips.

EDIT: I know that I can change most of the LocationProvider pararmeters through LocationManager like LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(String provider, long minTime, float minDistance, LocationListener listener) , but what I'm trying to do is a little hack. I want another programm to update gps coords more often than it does. That's why I cant use LocationManager (that requires listener parameter), and want to set "global" gps params, that will affect another activity.

EDIT2: I tried with reflections as suggested by Reno.

LocationProvider provider = lm.getProvider(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);       
 try {
    Class classGpsProvider = Class.forName("com.android.internal.location.GpsLocationProvider");
        classGpsProvider.cast(provider);
    ...

But unfortunately the call to lm.getProvider() returns DummyLocationProvider, and that one acts like a shadow for GpsLocationProvider.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1016

Answers (1)

Reno
Reno

Reputation: 33792

You probably can't do that without reflection

You should be using the import android.location.*

Upvotes: 1

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