Android Question GPS / Location Manager "troubles..."

[kepler]

Good afternoon,

I need a little help here with GPS or Location Manager.

I'm trying to integrate either one of them in a service module - but I only get zero values.

Here's a piece of the code I'm using:

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
    Dim Timer_Location As Timer
   
    Dim VLongitude As Double = 0
    Dim VLatitude As Double = 0
    Dim Velocity As Double
    Dim lm As LocationManager

End Sub

Sub Service_Create
   
    lm.Initialize("Location")
       
    Timer_Location.Initialize("TimerLocation",30000) '60 s = 60000 ms
    Timer_Location.Enabled=True
End Sub

Sub Location_LocationChanged (Longitude As Double, Latitude As Double, Altitude As Double, Accuracy As Float, Bearing As Float, Provider As String, Speed As Float, Time As Long)
    VLongitude = Longitude
    VLatitude = Latitude
    ToastMessageShow(VLongitude & " / " & VLatitude,False)
End Sub

Sub Location_ProviderDisabled (Provider As String)
    'Msgbox("Provider","Provider Disabled")
End Sub

Sub Location_ProviderEnabled (Provider As String)
    'Msgbox("Provider","Provider Enabled")
End Sub

Sub Location_StatusChanged (Provider As String, Status As Int)
    'Msgbox("Provider: " & Provider & CRLF & "Status: " & Status,"Status Changed")
End Sub

Sub TimerLocation_Tick
   'Handle tick events
   lm.requestGPSLocation
   Log("Request sent...")
End Sub

Is this not working because it's running in a service module?... But neither the simple GPS is...

Help nedeed... Thanks,

Kepler

 

[JTmartins]

I've only worked with standard GPS not with the location manager Lib but if you change

Sub TimerLocation_Tick
   'Handle tick events
   lm.requestGPSLocation
   Log("Request sent...")
End Sub

to

Sub TimerLocation_Tick
   'Handle tick events
  lm.requestMobileLocation
   Log("Request sent...")
  toastmessageshow (VLongitude & " / " & VLatitude, false)
End Sub

The requestMobileLocation should give you the location based on the 3G network (you need to be using a mobile sim card )

Location Changed will not probably not fire inside a house if you use GPS as the LocationChanged means that that sub will only fire when actualy there is a location change..meaning if the device is stationary...it will probably not fire that sub so values will always be zero.

So move around a few hundred meters and see what you get.

But as I've said, never used location manager before, but I presume it should't be very different from standard GPS lib.

JM

 

[Erel]

Have you started the service?

 

[kepler]

Hi Erel,

Yes, I did. I was able to get a location through Location Manager Lib, with the requestMobileLocation. Still, I had o use a "try/catch" routine since there's an error of the type "provider=network" in the emulator - I suspect the same thing could happen in a tablet.

Regards,

Kepler