Schnapps? I got some 15 year old single malt! I see some room for improvement in my error routines now. I'll have to work on it some more.
Thanks! Wayne On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > Wayne Wenthin wrote: > > I told you my brain was fried... > > To re-paraphrase an ad slogan, there's a schnapps for that. > > :-) > > > On getLastKnownLocation Of course > > now that I look at the code I probably should be firing the > > getBestProvider earlier. > > The most flexible approach is to use getBestProvider(). If that returns > null, then the user has locked you out of all available options and > you're outta luck. If that returns non-null, you can use that with > getLastKnownLocation()...but depending on the choice, that may always > return null. > > Instead, once you have the provider, register for location updates. That > will force the provider to start actually attempting to acquire fixes > (e.g., GPS radios will turn on). You can then either use the fixes your > location listener gets, or call getLastKnownLocation(). How long it > takes, though, may vary. If GPS is the provider, for example, it could > have fixes in a couple of seconds (outdoors), in tens of seconds > (indoors), or never (Batcave). However, your listener will be notified > when the first fix is available, so you will know when locations are > ready for use. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Writing code is one of few things that teaches me I don't know everything. Join the Closed Beta of Call Girl Manager http://www.fuligin.com/forums -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
