Well, the documentation doesn't mention anything about the accuracy. You can try and check by moving around, from ground to first floor, how does it behave.
I guess, it is a GPS fix, then you can probably look up in Google how does it calculate the altitude and what's the accuracy. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek http://tech-droid.blogspot.com On Dec 8, 3:51 pm, Neilz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the reply. > > Yes, I just found the getAltitude() method of Location. Unfortunately > it just seems to return "120.0", and doesn't seem to have the accuracy > of getLatitude() and getLongitude(). I need the same degree of > accuracy for it to be any use. > > On Dec 8, 10:35 am, "Dexter's Brain" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can use the location manager. > > > There are attributes like latitude, longitude and altitude which you > > can get directly from the Location Manager. > > > If the provider is GPS PROVIDER, they you would probably get the > > height everytime, but if you are querying for the NETWORK PROVIDER, > > then the height would always be set to zero, well, in most cases. > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Kumar Bibek > > >http://tech-droid.blogspot.com > > > On Dec 8, 3:30 pm, Neilz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Anyone know if it's possible to obtain the physical height or altitude > > > of your device, using the sensors or by any other means? > > -- 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
