Sven Jacobs wrote: > 2010/3/20 Mark Murphy <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > DDMS/geo only sets a simulated GPS fix (AFAIK -- that's certainly DDMS' > behavior), and you have not turned on the GPS radio. You need to > requestLocationUpdates() to turn on GPS, then set the fix. Then, your > LocationListener will be notified of the fix, and after that point > getLastKnownLocation() can return it as well. > > > Hi Mark, > > thanks for the hint! After applying requestLocationUpdates() it works. > But I still find this strange and it's not documented that a single call > to getLastKnownLocation() if I'm not interested in constant location > updates won't return a value.
It's more that if the location technology is not on, getLastKnownLocation() won't return a value. GPS is a battery hog, and so it is off unless something in the system has said "yo! I want GPS on, please!". -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
