Just in case somebody is interested, everything works now. The key is to put the time into the faked location.
fakedLocation.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis()); locationManager.setTestProviderLocation(LocManager.MOCK_PROVIDER, fakedLocation); I've also noticed that even though I was able to make a broadcast work with addProximityAlert, the intent in onReceive of the intent receiver is not the same as the one I created for the PendingIntent created with getBroadcast() passed to addProximityAlert. This might be an Android bug. If I do the same PendingIntent but use it to start a service with getService(), everything works fine. I have one question left regarding service. If I let my service do addProximityAlert, but the service doesn't do anything but waiting for the alert. Can I be sure, that under normal circumstances the proximity alert will be kicked off, even after several days for instance, as long as I specify the expiration time as == -1? ----- Original Message ----- From: Hendrik Greving To: Android Developers Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 8:05 PM Subject: addProximityAlert & lifecycle Hi I understand the documentation about activity and service lifecycle. Generally speaking, what's the approach if you want to have an application which gets unlimited proximity alerts, basically a service that doesn't die? I've tried startService with requestLocationUpdate etc. but after a while the service seems to get killed by the OS. That's basically question 1) :-) Now to problem 2) I've tried to do addProximityAlert but it doesn't really seem to work. I am basically doing something like Intent updateIntent = new Intent(this, LocManIntentReceiver.class); updateIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_INFO); updateIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_LOCALE_CHANGED); // Put the information into the Intent updateIntent.putExtra[..] // Create a pending broadcast intent for the proximity alertPendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, -1, updateIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); // Add a new proximity alert, update the old one locationManager.addProximityAlert((double)latitude/1E6, (double)longitude/1E6, (float)1, 1000000, pendingIntent); But if I set a breakpoint or do a Toast.makeText in the onReceive function of the BroadcastReceiver, I never get anything. Now to problem 3) :-) I've tried to set up a mock location provider by starting a "Timer" which periodically spits out a new location, and I set up a LocationListener. The timer does something like this LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); locationManager.setTestProviderLocation(LocManager.MOCK_LOCMAN_PROVIDER, fakedLocation); I am passing the context in the constructor of the Timer object when instantiating it. The location listener in the main activity never received an update but the very first one. Any take on that? - Thanks! -- 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
