Question

I have tried to do my research about GPS issues before posting here. When I tested my code It repeats the same output over and over. The method gpsStart() is called on a timer. Fine and Coarse location permissions have been added to the manifest. The method appendLog() stores the output in a file.

public void gpsStart() {
        // Acquire a reference to the system Location Manager
        LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) this.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
        // Define a listener that responds to location updates
        LocationListener locationListener = new LocationListener() {
            public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
                // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "location changed",
                // Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                // Called when a new location is found by the network location
                // provider.
                appendLog("Lat: " + location.getLatitude() + "\nLng: "
                        + location.getLongitude()+"\n");
                text3.setText("Lat: " + location.getLatitude() + "\nLng: "
                        + location.getLongitude());
            }

        public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status,
                Bundle extras) {
        }

        public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
        }

        public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
        }
    };

    // Register the listener with the Location Manager to receive location
    // updates
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(
            LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(
            LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
}

Answer 1

Thank you very much for your answers. Dharmendra you are correct, I did need to close the LocationListeners, however the answer to my question was much simpler. I needed to change the minimum time (the time the listener waits to get an answer) to a value above zero. The value I needed to change is shown in bold below (MINTIME).

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, MINTIME, 0, gpslocationListener);        locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, MINTIME, 0, networklocationListener);