Current Location using GPS Library and MapViews?

[yonson]

Hi
first off many congratulations to the team for not only a first class product but also a very useful forum! As this is my first foray into android development I hope you will excuse the amateur questions I'm posting..

I've worked through the GPS tutorial and its worked a treat. However, I only receive location information when the phone is moved (i.e. with the call to <subprefix>_LocationChanged(Location1 As Location))

I was wondering if there is a way to get the phones current location when the app launches, i.e. without having to move around?

Next, I was wondering if there are any plans to develop a mapView at all over the coming months?

Many thanks for your help in advance!
John

 

[Erel]

Welcome to our community.
The GPS raises events when there is some movement. However if you pass 0, 0 to Gps.Start then the event will be raised for small movements.

I'm not sure about MapView. The design of MapView is a bit problematic and almost all of its functionality is already supported with WebView. There are several examples in the forum.

 

[yonson]

thanks yes I saw the examples posted, I'm sure they will help once I've worked through them.

Thanks for the prompt reply!