Question

I need to calculate the movement speed on every location update.

I’m using the following code for the location update.

public class FlirtLocationListener implements LocationListener
{
    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) 
    {

                // My Code on the location update
    }
    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) 
    {
        Log.i("OnProviderDisabled", "OnProviderDisabled");
    }
    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) 
    {

        Log.i("onProviderEnabled", "onProviderEnabled");
    }
    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status,
            Bundle extras) 
    {
        Log.i("onStatusChanged", "onStatusChanged");
    }
}

How to get the movement speed? Should I calculate the time between the two updates and the distance between first and next location? Or is there some other way?

Answer 1

As @jsmith said there is a getSpeed() method in the Location.class.

public class LocationListener implements LocationListener
    {
        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location location) 
        {
               float speed = location.getSpeed();
        }
    }