Android Programming Tutorials

Posts On Location

locMgr.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,

10000 , 10000 .0f,

onLocationChange);

This refers to an onLocationChange object, which is a LocationListener. We

do not truly care about the updates (though, in principle, our application

could do something with them). Hence, for this tutorial's purpose, all you

need is a stub implementation of LocationListener. Add the following to

Patchy:

private LocationListener onLocationChange=new LocationListener() {

public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {

// required for interface, not used

}

public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {

// required for interface, not used

}

public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {

// required for interface, not used

}

public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status,

Bundle extras) {

// required for interface, not used

}

};

Finally, since we registered for location updates in onCreate(), we should

remove that request in onDestroy(). Modify onDestroy() in Patchy to look

like this:

@Override

public void onDestroy() {

super.onDestroy();

locMgr.removeUpdates(onLocationChange);

service.removeAccount(listener);

unbindService(svcConn);

}

Step #3: Add "Insert Location" Menu

Now, we need to give the user a way to inject the current location into the

status update being written. The simplest way to do that is by adding a

menu item to Patchy/res/menu/option.xml:

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