On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:55 AM, t <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. i see that keeping the GPS provider activated drains the battery. > do you have suggestions to why is that?
Because it keeps the GPS radio on. The GPS radio draws power. Drawing power drains the battery. > 2. continuing to my first question, how does the update listening > mechanism work? i'm guessing the satellites don't know all the phones > and push updates to them, so is it really a check every X seconds > (depend on the configuration) whether the location has changed? You can learn about how GPS works in any number of places, such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! -- 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
