On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jake Colman <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess when "best" returns NULL it really means there ain't > nothing available to satisfy my request.
Ignoring the double negative, you are correct. getBestProvider() will progressively relax constraints you specified in your Criteria to try to give *something*, but if it does so and there are still no matches, you get null. > That was really the core of my question. TreKing's list seems pretty good. You can add "screwball device that doesn't meet the CDD/CTS but has a pirated version of the Play Store on it anyway" as another possibility. I've seen reports of weird stuff related to locations (and maps) with such devices. However, this is a fringe case, unless you're specifically trying to distribute to such devices. > If "best" returns NULL I have > to assume that I cannot determine the location - and then do something > accordingly. Yup. Popping a dialog that leads the user over to the Location portion of Settings seems to be a popular option, figuring that the issue is that the user has providers disabled. I get caught by that a fair bit, as I keep GPS disabled on my personal phone unless I am actively trying to use it. Occasionally, I'll try to get into Google Navigation, and it will yelp because I have GPS disabled. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy In questi siti web puoi chiedere o rispondere a domande relative allo sviluppo di applicazioni Android: http://www.andglobe.com -- 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
