current position

When testing a map application which uses GPS functionality on the Emulator you can manually set the current latitude and the longitude using the “Emulator Controller” view provided by the Eclipse IDE. In this post I have given you a full guide to create an emulator with GPS support and how to set the location on Emulator. I hope this guide will helpful for you. 🙂

Emulator with GPS Support

First of all check whether your Emulator supports GPS. If not you can edit your AVD by adding it as a new property to Hardware as follows.

Select AVD Manager icon–>Select the existing device–> Edit–>

Check the Hardware properties (If it doesn’t support)–>Select New–>add “GPS Support” from the drop down list

Now the new property will be displayed as follows. Select Edit AVD.

Steps to set the location on Emulator

Goto Windows–>Show View–> Other

Select “Emulator Controller” available under Android

Now the Emulator Controller will be added as another tab next to the Console.

You can set the location at “Location Controller” and when you click “Send” the Emulator will detect it as a new location Change and if you have designed to reload the map when location is changed, it will animate your map to the given new location.

Thank You! 🙂

Hi, Today I’ll explain how to obtain the latitude and the longitude of the current position in order to load the Google maps at the current position. Several providers are available with android which can be used to get current position updates. They are the GPS provider, Network provider and Mock provider. The GPS provider will give you a more accurate current position than the Network provider. Following steps will helpful for you to get the current position.

Add a new permission to the AndroidMainfest.xml .

<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION”/>

To initiate the LocationManager class: call getSystemService() of the Activity class.

LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context. LOCATION_SERVICE);

To request for updates: call requestLocationUpdates(). locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, MINIMUM_ TIME_ BETWEEN_ UPDATES,MINIMUM_DISTANCE_CHANGE_FOR_UPDATES, new MyLocationListener());

To get the current position : call getLastKnownLocation()of LocationManager

Location location = locationManager. getLastKnownLocation (LocationManager.GPS _PROVIDER);

** If your device initially doesn’t have any last known locations this will give you a RuntimeException. So you’ll have to handle that scenario. 🙂

LocationListener to listen for updates and status changes.
class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener {
public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {} // to get continues updates
public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {}
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {}
public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {}
}