I'm new to Android development. As a class assignment another student and myself are making an android app that will utilize GPS coordinates.
Is there anywhere that would be a good place for me to start with GPS feature on Android, or that has a good example of how to use GPS? I don't want anything deep, literally just how to retrieve and use current GPS coordinates. I'd like to start simple and build up from there.
As mentioned in one of the other answers, Vogella's article here is very good for learning the basics of using GPS on Android.
The Android Dev guides are also particularly good for this area - obviously there are issues with battery drain associated with using location listeners. More in-depth information on what you can do to combat those issues are here, as when you get to grips with how to use GPS, you'll want to use it efficiently!
HTH
Well mostly GPS coordinates are used along with Google Maps. So, as a starter what you can do is just get your own coordinates and put a marker on your location on the map.
This article and this one describes everything about using google maps with android.
Hope this helps.
http://webdesignergeeks.com/mobile/android/geting-current-location-in-android-application-using-gps/
this will be a good start. it explains how to get GPS coordinates as text format. Without dealing with google maps or anything complex.
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I am looking to potentially build an Android application that would work alongside Google maps and would require that there is currently navigation running with Google maps. This Android application would really just need to pull the navigation data (the route that is in progress, it would not need turn-by-turn) from Google maps. Does anyone know if this is possible/doable?
I have a couple other ideas so this is not necessarily the be-all, end-all, but if this is doable, I think it would be the best implementation for the users.
I am just looking for some general ideas, any feedback is appreciated!
My goal is to have a GPS Track displayed in a local Java Application with Google Maps. And I am pretty sure I am not the first one to try this, so there should be a way.
The Problem is that I found the Google Maps Engine API (Deprecated) which is stated as deprecated. But I didn't find any replacement. Only this page, which then links to the deprecated version again.
I also did some search, but all results seem to point to future deprecated API, and also are pretty old.
Can anyone point me a version or tooling that I will be able to still use in 2016? Or does anyone know an alternative to using Google Maps for displaying GPS tracks in a local java app.
Thanks
In case anyone has the same problem:
I used mapsforge https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge
JxMaps library provides possibility to add Google Maps to java swing application. Using this library you can draw GPS track either as polyline or set of markers on the map.
I am new to android and i am trying to build a police station finder application near my current location. I have a little idea how to do it with map fragments but map fragments don't work anymore. So, what is the other way to do the same?
here you can get places near by your location using Google Place API and for use of Place Api see this blog
hope this will help you.
I just started using Java, seems pretty straight forward. When I make a gps app with google maps on an android device there's no issue. However, I tried to incorporate an android wear device (Currently running on a simulator). My dismiss overlay pops up after a long click, but the map comes up blank. I'm getting the map and it's not null so I know it's there. I'm thinking I need to use the handheld location listeners but I'n not exactly sure how to point them towards each other. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
-WD
You need to have the google maps api key setup on your android app. You then need to make sure that the package name in the android manifest files are the same. This is the part that hung me up for a while. Once you do that, you should see the map render.
I'm new to building applications (so far made only one application ) . The question is - can not figure out whether it is possible to make parsing Google maps ? For example user clicks a button and he at around 100 yards displayed cafe . that is, Google determines the location of the user and is recognized all around the cafe (not on the map and the text on the page ) . Now try to understand how the geocoder, but not sure that I was going in the right direction . Are there any ideas what the library is connected properly and work with her?
I hardly understand your question, however, I should mention that there are two versions of google maps API for android at the moment, and those versions differ significantly. It's really sensible to use API v2.
You can find good tutorials on this topic, one is here, notice that russian and english versions of site are available.
whether it is possible to make parsing Google maps
If you mean getting geo coordinates on click event you can find OnMapClickListener class useful, see the tutorial above for help.