Hi Hatch, you can always try this http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager.html#addProximityAlert(double, double, float, long, android.app.PendingIntent) although I'm not sure about battery consumption compared to your proposed method.
Best regards, Filip Havlicek 2010/10/18 Hatch <[email protected]> > Hi all. > > I would like to 'be notified' when the user enters a given range of > certain Geo point(s). > > For instance, one point could be School. When User is within 500m of > the School he would get a notification (for example.) > > Is this the way to go: > > 1) Turn on LocationListener in a background service and ask for > location update every 5 minutes (is that a lot?) > on location update: > 2) check whether new location is better than the last one > 3) calculate distance of current location and School location. > 4) if within range: do something. > > Am I transgressing something with such design ? > > The Idea is to have a kind of a 'proximity sensor' to certain > predefined points. > > > Thank you. > > -- > 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 -- 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
