[android-developers] Re: Reliable GPS location

2010-01-07 Thread nr1
thx! On 5 Jan., 00:48, Daan daan_v...@hotmail.com wrote: You can use Location.getTime() this returns the UTC time of this fix, in milliseconds since January 1, 1970. Then you could get the current time and compare it to see if you find it accurate enough. On Jan 4, 10:14 pm, Lance Nanek

[android-developers] Re: Reliable GPS location

2010-01-07 Thread nr1
One more question: What do you exactly mean by get the actual Time? If can compare the fix time with something like System.currentTimeMillis(), but this will just work if a correct time is set on the device. The GPS system time would be better, but i seems that it's not retrievable on SDK 1.6 as

[android-developers] Re: Reliable GPS location

2010-01-05 Thread Daan
You can use Location.getTime() this returns the UTC time of this fix, in milliseconds since January 1, 1970. Then you could get the current time and compare it to see if you find it accurate enough. On Jan 4, 10:14 pm, Lance Nanek lna...@gmail.com wrote: You can call Location#getTime to see

[android-developers] Re: Reliable GPS location

2010-01-04 Thread Lance Nanek
You can call Location#getTime to see when the fix returned by LocationManager#getLastKnownLocation was taken. The getLastKnownLocation method doesn't start the GPS, so the fix may be from a long time ago, and not be a good indicator of the current location. The accuracy of the fix refers to the