How to avoid wrong locations in android while getting locations through FusedLocation?

Asked Nov 17 '22 at 05:45

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I am getting device' locations through fused location service, then sending these location to backend to draw line on map. It is working fine. As we know, fused location is a free service and it has low accuracy (as compared to google paid services), when user stops on a location for a while (e.g: for 30 minutes), It will draw random lines. As shown in image:

I am calculating distance from these location, now when I am calculating distance in this scenario, it will also calculate distance of this cluster/random lines. How can I avoid this extra distance?

asked Nov 17 '22 at 05:45

Faizan Ahmad

Use gps. Its free. All the rest is inaccurate. – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 06:41
What you describe is normal behaviour of a gps receiver on no movement. – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 06:44
I have no idea why you would use something inaccurate. – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 06:45
I have no idea how a paid service could increase accuracy. – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 06:46
Thank you for your response, but I can not use gps, I am using GPS, but in this case, I have to use fused location service, as I have to get location even if the app is in background or killed. With GPS, I can not do this because some devices stop the execution if there is too much processing. – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 06:53
Furthermore, GPS is also drawing such lines, If user is stopped at a location, it will return location within some specific radius, it will not return the exactly same points. – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 06:56
Furthermore? What are you telling? Didnt you read my second comment? – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 07:00
Yes you are right, every free service is returning such locations, because these are not according to roads, buildings etc. My question is that how We can avoid such locations? – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 08:28
`every free service is returning such locations,` I have no idea what free services would be. And not even i do understand services? Why are you talking abouit services? – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 08:35
Services mean, location providers, can you please give me any solution to avoid such location ? – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 10:53
Which location providers do you have in mind? – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 10:56
I am using Fused location – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 10:57
Also tried GPS and network locations – Faizan Ahmad Nov 17 '22 at 10:58
Only gps will show this drifting i think. You can do nothing against it. Even Garmin gps receivers show this behaviour. – blackapps Nov 17 '22 at 12:32

How to avoid wrong locations in android while getting locations through FusedLocation?

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