Question

i’m new in java/android app and i’m creating an app that uses user-location. I want the location to be updated at the begining of the app.
The problem is that my location class is an activity and i don’t want to show another contentview for this class.
Actually, i want the location thing to be done in background, without changing the UI, in a separated class.

Is it possible? How?

Thanks 😛

Answer 1

There is no need to put the location in a different activity, the LocationManager already does it in the background:

public void getLocation(){
    lm = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    gpsLocationListener = new LocationListener() {

        @Override
        public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
                    //do something with the new location
        if (location != null)
            gpsLocation = location;

        }
    };

      gpsLocation = lm.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);


      lm.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 1, 0, gpsLocationListener);



}