I have not found a way to do it in the emulator. All the GPS/location testing I do on a real device. Sometimes I get in the car and drive around to get more real world situation. Of course what you quickly discover is how crummy the GPS works in a car (or in a mall) :-).
If you are testing with cellular locations rather than GPS locations you may need to do alot more moving around as the cellular location system is not so granular as real GPS. You may want to rig up a little ticker inside your app to feed location updates to the app for bench testing. Just put a sting array of coordinates in the resource fork and use the Timer class to drive the coordinate reader/feeder. It will simulate OK. But for location stuff actually getting out and moving the device around has been important. It is alot of fun just you and the stupid android and a laptop on the front seat stopping in parks and parking lots to toy with Eclipse and DDMS. Now if Google could just arrange for these apps to sell better... On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM, julius <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I'm really trying to respond to changes. > > This is a good idea to kick things off, but I'd like to be able to > show changes so I can turn the GPS service on/off. Is there a way to > do fake this in the emulator? > > Regards, > Julius. > > On Jan 29, 2:50 am, WoodManEXP <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sure, simply hard code the test coordinate in your app at the point > > you would otherwise call the LocationManager to get the last known > > location. Not too elegant, but it has worked over here on many > > occasions... > > > > On Jan 27, 10:57 pm, julius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I have an application which uses the network as the location provider > > > (rather than GPS eg.), however I can't seem to figure out how to send > > > the emulator test coordinates. In DDMS I would usually send > > > coordinates in the Emulator Control tab. > > > > > Is there a place to simulate coordinates derived from the cell phone > > > network provider? > > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > (If I try to get the last known location I get: > > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: provider=network) > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
