On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: > If my phone is running a location-aware clock or a location-aware > weather widget, would getLastKnownLocation() be guaranteed to return a > value in my app?
There are no guarantees in life. For example, a "location-aware clock" might only check location sporadically (e.g., daily). > Or is that the point of the 'passive' provider? The passive provider is so you can get location data without necessarily turning anything on (e.g., GPS radio). > With my widget installed on my HTC EVO, which runs the HTC standard > location-aware clock, it always knows where it is as I travel from home > to work. That would imply that my app's call to getLastKnownLocation > returned results since the phone knew where it was. Does that make > sense? Yes. Unless your app is only for you, though, you can't exactly rely on that. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- 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
