Question

I have a situation in which I need to test smart phone app. Objective is to disable my app based on the geolocation. So for example let say I am “live” streaming some video via my app and would like to disable streaming if user goes to certain restricted location and turn it ON when user moves to acceptable geological area.

Now the testing part is, that all the phones lets say 5 phones are in front of me and I want to test the app running on them that the app will get turned off when they will move into the restricted areas. How can this be achieved?

Edits:-
Actual scenario – Live streaming of a match which should not be shown in area near the stadium on the android app. So if a user hit “play” button on app and the phone is physically in video restricted zone for that particular duration of the match, the video should not be streamed to that cell phone.

any thoughts… opinions..?

Thanks

Answer 1

On android you have multiple options to supply your application with a mock location:
via DDMS, telnet or via the LocationManager:

DDMS

Start DDMS from the AndroidSDK/tools/ folder. Select the device you want to spoof the location for, and go to Emulator Control. At the bottom of the tab you should find the option to manually set the location, and what location to spoof.

ADB/Telnet

List all of your devices via adb devices. From this you should get an output like this:

List of devices attached
emulator-5554 device

Then telnet to the indicated port:

telnet localhost 5554

This should open the android console. There you can use the geo fix command to set the location

geo fix $lon $lat

LocationProvider

You can supply a location for testing using the setTestProviderLocation Method of the LocationProvider

LocationManager lm = (LocationManager)this.getContext().getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
String mocLocationProvider = "Test";
locationManager.addTestProvider(mocLocationProvider, false, false,
                    false, false, true, true, true, 0, 5);
locationManager.setTestProviderEnabled(mocLocationProvider, true);

Location mockLocation = new Location(mocLocationProvider);
mockLocation.setLatitude(location.getLatitude());
mockLocation.setLongitude(location.getLongitude()); 
mockLocation.setAltitude(location.getAltitude()); 
mockLocation.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis()); 
locationManager.setTestProviderLocation( mocLocationProvider, mockLocation);

This method I got from here

Additionally, do not forget to set the permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION">