Getting the current GPS location on Android?

Your location update callbacks can't be fired until after onCreate() returns. If you initialize your lat/long variables to dummy values you will probably see you are printing those values Put some logging in your onLocationChanged so that you can see it's being fired, then read up a bit on how android applications work with regard to callbacks and updating the UI Also make sure your application has appropriate permissions in its manifest.

Your location update callbacks can't be fired until after onCreate() returns. If you initialize your lat/long variables to dummy values you will probably see you are printing those values. Put some logging in your onLocationChanged so that you can see it's being fired, then read up a bit on how android applications work with regard to callbacks and updating the UI.

Also make sure your application has appropriate permissions in its manifest.

Location updates are in fact asynchronous. This means the API does not make your calling thread wait until a new location is available ; instead you register an observer object with a specific method (callback) that gets called whenever a new location gets computed. In the Android LocationManager API, the observer is a LocationListener object, and the main callback for location updates is onLocationChanged() Here is a diagram trying to explain this point (hope this helps rather than confuse you!) So from your current code : Declare mlocListener as a member of your Activity subclass Add log outputs (Logcat lines) in your LocationListener implementation Keep the rest of the code as is.

Add the right permissions in the manifest (FINE_LOCATION is needed for GPS) if not done so yet. Try to have the phone connected to Internet and near a window, in order to get a quite fast GPS fix (should be ~30s). Then launch the app and watch what happens in the logcat.

You will see that status changes and location updates are not immediate after the initial request, thus explaining why your textview always shows (0.0,0.0). More: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/obtaining-user-location.html.

Thanks a lot for a super duper explanation. – MMRUser Feb 5 at 10:10 You are welcome! – Stéphane Feb 5 at 10:19 That worked.. the log just prints the lon/lat values in every 30 seconds.

Now I have to get those values and update the UI. – MMRUser Feb 5 at 10:45.

After you get mLocListener - set the Criteria as shown below String mlocProvider; Criteria hdCrit = new Criteria(); hdCrit. SetAccuracy(Criteria. ACCURACY_COARSE); mlocProvider = mlocManager.

GetBestProvider(hdCrit, true); and then use getLastKnownLocation tv. Append("\n\nLocations (starting with last known):"); Location currentLocation = mlocManager. GetLastKnownLocation(mlocProvider); Make sure you have these in your manifest uses-permission android:name="android.permission.

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" uses-permission android:name="android.permission. ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" If you are using Emulator - In DDMS Perspective, look for Location Controls in Emulator Control tab. Then use Manual tab to set the Longitude and Latitude and click send - do this when your program is running you see a call to onLocationchanged.It is good idea to have log in onLocationChanged.

BTW, the parameters in requestLocationUpdates are set to "... 0,0..." - it will drain your battery - I have seen the phone go dead in 6 - 8 hours - change it to "...30000, 100..." - the first parameter in millisec and the other is in meters.

When you check it on emulator it will give 0.0. You have to pass the locations to emulator. You can pass this from C:\android-sdk_r06\android-sdk-windows\tools\ddms.

Bat file. In ddms there is a tab named emulator controls. From there you can pass the locations to emulator.

Try this. Hope it will work.

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