Question

I’m working on Android application. In this, I need that when I capture image or selects from gallery for uploading, it should show current location like city etc. I’ve tried using GPS but when I run it on Android Emulator, it shows Latitude and Longitude with 0 ,0 . Any help will be appreciated. What should I do for this ?

Answer 1

You can not fetch GPS in emulator.But there is a work around for that

telnet localhost 5554

Connect to your emulator.Like shown above and then

geo fix -23.234334 32.234344 4392

First two are longitude and latitude values and the last one is altitude in meters.

Now from there you can call from GeoCoder
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Geocoder.html

 public List<Address> getFromLocation (double latitude, double longitude, int maxResults)

It will return a list of Address that has a method getLocality

Geocoder gcd = new Geocoder(context, Locale.getDefault());
List<Address> addresses = gcd.getFromLocation(lat, lng, 1);
if (addresses.size() > 0) 
    Log.i("address",""+addresses.get(0).getLocality());

Try with various values and check!