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Asked: 2026-05-26T19:58:53+00:00

I have some ideas for an app that checks your location about every 5

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I have some ideas for an app that checks your location about every 5 minutes or less. Maybe every 1 minute, I’m not sure yet. Obviously I can simply create a service that checks what the phone’s GPS location is every N minutes. But that is a potential drain on the battery.

What I was wondering, are there any internal services that are already running in the Android OS that are already polling for the phones GPS location? That way perhaps I can simply ask those services for what the location is instead of making the GPS location request myself, in order to save on battery usage.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No such system services exist. You can create a service and periodically check for lastKnownLocation().

    Designing a location-aware app depends on a lot of factors. Try answering this questions:

    1. Do you always need GPS location or is network based location good enough?
    2. How “fresh” does a location need to be?
    3. Do you need a location even if user does not move?
    4. Do you need a location even if phone is in sleep mode?

    Read this http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/06/deep-dive-into-location.html

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