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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:19:40+00:00

Visiting www.google.com on the Android browser (or even with an android spoofed user-agent), presents

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Visiting http://www.google.com on the Android browser (or even with an android spoofed user-agent), presents the option to “Share Location”. When clicked, it uses the GPS/Cell phone towers to figure out the location. I tried the google.loader.clientLocation but that only works using the IP address.

Is there a method to tap into the Android OS and access GPS data from a regular web application (and not an Android application) similar to the way Google does?

[Perhaps Google uses the Google Gears app on Android to access this data.]

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  1. Editorial Team

    I was trying that recently and found this forum posting interesting. I did not find a real good way to do this either and it doesn’t look like we can do that without writing our own app which opens a browser instance.
    http://androidforums.com/support/8868-how-get-gps-coordinates-browser.html

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