[android-developers] Re: I don't see how to do this....

2010-01-06 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
As another side note, if you want to preemptively prevent force close messages, the best thing to do is test everything for a valid data type before using it. Many unexpected conditions can be caught and handled if you do this, failure to test everything that may have an unexpected value will at so

[android-developers] Re: I don't see how to do this....

2010-01-06 Thread furby
Aha! Thank you! As soon as I read your response it hit me - I am testing on the emulator, which will always give me a null provider! Which means no matter what I do I am gonna get a null which means I can't get a latitude... Which shows that I have had WAY too much time off of programming between

[android-developers] Re: I don't see how to do this....

2010-01-06 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
You're not testing to see if you get a null provider, also I'm not sure asking to use POWER_LOW and ACCURACY_FINE will work as GPS uses a lot of power. I suggest dropping the POWER_LOW and testing provider for null. Also, unless you need a very accurate fix, the wireless network location service