Android Question Turn on GPS

[Devv]

Hi , as i know that you can't turn on GPS on a device that runs android 4+
i found this thread, they claimed that you could do it
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20048995/android-4-1-2-how-to-turn-off-gps-programmatically
as i have no java experience can anyone verify this ? could this be turned into b4a library ?

 

[Erel]

This will only work if the settings widget was added. If this is relevant for you then I can help you write this code.

 

[Devv]

This will only work if the settings widget was added. If this is relevant for you then I can help you write this code.

You mean the notification drawer widget that comes with Samsung devices ?

if you could write a library that could enable GPS on devices that uses this widget without user interaction that will be great ...

 

[Erel]

This is the relevant code:

Sub TurnGPSOn
   Dim i As Intent
   i.Initialize("", "3")
   i.SetComponent("com.android.settings/.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider")
   i.AddCategory("android.intent.category.ALTERNATIVE")
   Dim p As Phone
   p.SendBroadcastIntent(i)
End Sub

It doesn't work on Android 4.4. You will see a message in the unfiltered logs about a permission problem.

 

[Harris]

This has always been a problem.
If the user chooses NOT to turn on GPS, or I cannot force it on, then the data I collect is invalid - since US government rules demand lat/lon values with each record created.

Enabling GPS makes it available for all apps (I assume) - even the ones your kids don't want enabled for tracking them.
I think, as developers, we need an APP ONLY permission - where we need access to GPS. All other apps would have to ask, demand, register the same permission. Google would have to figure that one out...

The only alternative now, if GPS isn't enabled, is to close the app, or keep demanding that GPS be enabled... Both options stall data collection.

 

[Devv]

This is the relevant code:

Sub TurnGPSOn
   Dim i As Intent
   i.Initialize("", "3")
   i.SetComponent("com.android.settings/.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider")
   i.AddCategory("android.intent.category.ALTERNATIVE")
   Dim p As Phone
   p.SendBroadcastIntent(i)
End Sub

It doesn't work on Android 4.4. You will see a message in the unfiltered logs about a permission problem.

i tried this on samsung grand and s3 both less than 4.4 without any success