Question

I am working on a widget for Android, which displays your current location. To get the current latitude and longitude I have the following code:

public class LocationInfo extends Activity {

RemoteViews remoteViews;

LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
myLocationListener locationListener = new myLocationListener();
LocationProvider locationProvider = locationManager.getProvider(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(locationProvider, 0, 0, locationListener);

class myLocationListener implements LocationListener {

    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        if(location != null)
        {
            double Long = location.getLongitude();
            double Lat = location.getLatitude();

            remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.widget_textview3, Double.toString(Long));
        }

        else {
            remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.widget_textview3, "LOADING...");
        }

    }

    public void onProviderDisabled(String arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    public void onProviderEnabled(String arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    public void onStatusChanged(String arg0, int arg1, Bundle arg2) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}
}

However, I get an error at the arguments of requestLocationUpdates. It says “Syntax error on tokens, VariableDeclarator expected instead” at 0,0, locationListener.

Also, this is a separate class. How would I then run this in my widget? Something like:

LocationInfo locationProvider = new LocationInfo();
LocationProvider.run();

maybe? Again, any help would really be appreciated!

Answer 1

You are not allowed to execute

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(locationProvider, 0, 0, locationListener);

outside of methods.
Just move in to, for example, onCreate of Activity.

Good luck