Questions tagged [location-provider]
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requestLocationUpdates with PendingIntent and Broadcast - what broadcasts do I get
I have setup an alarm which is received by a BroadcastReceiver which launches a WakefulIntentService (class LocationMonitor). In the LocationMonitor I have :
private static final int MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_SCANS = 1 * 30 * 1000;
private static final int…

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What is the use of "Maintain a current best estimate" of location Android?
I've read the documentation and this.
What I don't understand is why this function isBetterLocation() even exists. The function tells the difference between "current location fix" and "new location". But what are those 2 locations really?
I can…

ericn
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locationManager.getBestProvider
I'm working on an application which uses location.
My problem:
When I'm looking for the best provider, I only get the "network".
I know why but I don't know how to improve this.
In the locations settings, when I check "parameter -> location" and…

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Get location on click of a button with default provider
I need to get the current location using NETWORK_PROVIDER on the click of a button. If network is not available, I want to use GPS_PROVIDER to get location. How can I do this?

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Is there any battery power consumption benefit if Network Location Provider (vs. GPS) is used?
Is there any real battery power consumption benefit if Network Location Provider (vs. GPS) is used?
I believe there should be some benefit, but since I develop on emulator I can not prove my assumption. Does anyone have the evidence that Network…

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$locationProvider stops other scripts to load and displays nothing in console.log
I'm using $locationProvider as a dependency and used $locationProvider.html5Mode(true); on routes.js and used angularjs
routes
location-provider

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How to get current latitude and longitude without using google maps android
I am trying to get the current location of the user either by GPS or location provider but every solution I have tried (many from stacksoverflow and google, youtube as well) gives a null as latitude and longitude.
Here is the code I am…

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Angular Routing; exlamation mark beside hashtag in url
I trying to do routing but i can't.
Related codes in app.js;
var app = angular.module("app",['ngRoute']);
app.config(["$routeProvider",function($routeProvider){
$routeProvider.
when('/', {
templateUrl:'pages/home.php'
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Unable to call Node Server API using href="" after implementing $locationProvider
I am a junior dev so I apologize if I say anything incorrectly or am not clear on my explanations. I am creating a MEAN stack application, and all of the routing is working correctly when I put $locationProvider.html5Mode(true); on my config and I…

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angular Cannot read property 'html5Mode' of undefined
in my angular application i want to make redirect with $location.path('/');
but i'm getting this error
Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module myApp due to:
Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module…

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RequestLocationUpdate with Pending Intent and how to get the Location Provider(GPS, Network) status?
I have used Android SDK Location Manager to get the user location.
I am requesting the location information by using Pending Intent. I have used pending intent because my need to send the location information even the app is not running.
Intent…

M Vignesh
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Location Manager.RequestLocationUpdates using pendingIntent always broadcasting the same location, when gps provider takes long time to get location
I am new to android development, I want my device to get GPS location every 40 seconds in background mode, even after the app got killed. For that, In MyAlarm.class, I have setRepeating the Alarm every 40 seconds to call a…

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Getting 0.0 for longitude and latitude on tablet
I am getting longitude=0.0 and latitude=0.0 on tablet while this is working perfectly on the phone.
I am using LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER and not the GPS_PROVIDER so what could be the cause please?
Logcat output??
that's my code:
// Acquire…

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Issue using the Angularjs $location provider and ASP.NET MVC action links together
I have an application that uses both ASP.NET MVC and Angularjs. I'm using the Angularjs $location provider to modify the search part of the url when filters are added or removed.
$location.search(searchObj);
I am then subscribing to the…

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Network location provider not giving location android
I am developing a small android application in which I want to find out the user's current location by using the network provider. I tried this in following ways but it's not giving me any output :
networklocationManager = (LocationManager) this
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