How to get number of available sattelite in android gps

Question

I'm working on GPS in android and I want to show the number of Satellite available at that time for current location and I am getting 3 at all the time in my app while in other app they showing 6 to 9 at same location.I don't know what is the problem. I am able to get Lat & Long current location. I'm getting no. of satellite from locationManager.getAllProviders().size() in LocationListener

I also tried

int satellite = 0;

GpsStatus status = locationManager.getGpsStatus(null);
            Iterable<GpsSatellite> sat = status.getSatellites();
            int i=0;
            while (sat.iterator().hasNext())
            {
                GpsSatellite gpsSatellite=(GpsSatellite)sats.iterator().next();

                if(gpsSatellite.usedInFix())
                {
                    satellite++;
                }


            }

but it showing me 0;

please help me. Thanks in advanced.

you can find help here:- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7359823/get-number-of-gps-fix-satellites — Ali Imran, Dec 05 '12 at 09:36
thanks but I seen it before and st=gpsStatus.getMaxSatellites() giving me 255 satellite. — Sachin D, Dec 05 '12 at 09:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '12 at 09:41

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You can check out the GpsStatus class methods.

You can use getSatellies() method to get a list of satellites. It is an iterable so you can traverse it and get the number of satellites.

answered Dec 05 '12 at 09:41

Anup Cowkur

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