Question

I am trying to collect some location updates into an arraylist in an Android map application. I would like to save the collected location updates for every minute into my local server. How can I do this. Is there a function in Android to do this?

Answer 1

1. Use Service, which is like an Activity without any UI.

2. Let Service run after every minute and take down the location updates in the form of Latitude and Longitude.

3. Then use a Non-UI thread to store the location data in the DataBase, for eg: SQLite

For service:

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html

For creation of simple thread:

Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable(){

   public void run(){

           // Here is the code that will do your job every minute.

           // Please use a while loop with a loop control factor,

           // and sleep mechanism to let your thread sleep for a minute.

          // for sleep, instead of using Thread.sleep(timeout) better use     

          //TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(timeout);

     }
  });


t.start();