I am working on a prototype Android app that sends gps data to a server. I had something working when I called my class GetLocation directly from my MainActivity class. However, I would want this to really work as a background service. I tried using similar code, but for some reason the LocationListener's functions never get called (the only one I'm looking at is the onLocationChanged). Am I misunderstanding how this works? Thanks. Here's my code.
public class GetLocation {
...
public GetLocation(Context myContext, String hostParam)
{
this.context = myContext;
sendMessage = false;
sendData = new SendData(Constants.HOST_NAME);
locationManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService((Context.LOCATION_SERVICE));
this.host = hostParam;
locationListener = new LocationListener()
{
@Override
public void onLocationChanged(Location location)
{
String sentence = AssembleSentence.assembleNMEAURL(location);
//sendData.sendMessage(sentence);
int geozoneLocation = GeoZone.getGeozoneLocation(location);
switch(geozoneLocation)
{
case GeoZone.LEVEL_ONE:
sendMessage = false;
if(Constants.LEVEL_ONE_INTERVAL != currentInterval)
{
startLocationUpdates(Constants.LEVEL_ONE_INTERVAL, LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
}
break;
case GeoZone.LEVEL_TWO:
sendMessage = false;
if(Constants.LEVEL_ONE_INTERVAL != currentInterval)
{
startLocationUpdates(Constants.LEVEL_TWO_INTERVAL, LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
}
break;
case GeoZone.LEVEL_THREE:
sendMessage = false;
if(Constants.LEVEL_ONE_INTERVAL != currentInterval)
{
startLocationUpdates(Constants.LEVEL_THREE_INTERVAL, LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
}
break;
case GeoZone.LEVEL_FOUR:
sendMessage = true;
if(Constants.LEVEL_ONE_INTERVAL != currentInterval)
{
startLocationUpdates(Constants.LEVEL_FOUR_INTERVAL, LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
}
break;
}
if(sendMessage)
{
sendData.sendMessage(sentence);
}
}
@Override
public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras)
{
}
@Override
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider)
{
}
@Override
public void onProviderDisabled(String provider)
{
}
};
}
....
}
Which is called by my Service class below.
public class TelematicsIntent extends Service
{
public TelematicsIntent()
{
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent)
{
throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented");
}
@Override
public void onCreate()
{
GetLocation location = new GetLocation(this, Constants.HOST_NAME);
}
@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
}
}
And this Service class is called by the MainActivity class. I know that the GetLocation class is being called correctly, as I set up a break point in the
this.host = hostParam and the code stopped there, but I put another break point in the statement int geozoneLocation = GeoZone.getGeozoneLocation(location); where GeoZone class is another class that just goes through the location data and returns whether the location is inside a particular area. Any ideas?
