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LOCATION SERVICES

• The capability of a smart device to locate itself at a given point of time,


and track its current location, as it moves along with the user, provides
location awareness to the apps.
• Uses:
o Retail outlets can provide an exciting in-store experience by
providing in-store offers or mobile brochures.
o Banks can guide the user to the nearest Automated Teller Machine
(ATM).
o Hospitality businesses can help in navigating a user from his or
her current location to their nearby food outlets.
• Functionalities:
o Locating the User
▪ The most primitive task of the Location services is to provide
the current location of a user.
▪ Mobile devices use several techniques to determine their
location. Unique cell id of the nearest cellular tower can be
used to approximately determine the current location. If the
device is receiving signals from two or more towers
simultaneously, cell triangulation technique can be used
for better accuracy.
▪ The IP address of Wi-Fi network to which the device is
connected, can also be used to determine the location.
▪ All these techniques do not require a dedicated hardware
in the device, and vary in accuracy. However,
▪ Location can be accurately determined using GPS (Global
Positioning System), a dedicated hardware in the device.
o Code (9.2, 9.3):
▪ The LocationClient constructor used to instantiate mClient
accepts three parameters – context, class implementing
ConnectionCallbacks interface, and class implementing
onConnectionFailedListener interface
▪ The getCurrentLocation() method is invoked on click of the
Get Location Button .
▪ an instance of the LocationClient – mClient – is used to
retrieve the location of the user.
▪ The getLastLocation() method of the LocationClient
returns a Location object containing the last known
coordinates.
o Tracking User Location:
▪ Location services not only determine location when the
device is stationary, as seen in the previous example, but
also have the capabilities to do the same while it is moving.
▪ This will come handy in those scenarios where an app needs
to process the continuous location updates such as
computing the speed of the user while running or the
distance covered while cycling.
o Code (9.4):
▪ onLocationChanged() method, where we display the
location coordinates every time the location changes.
▪ We have defined a method setUpLocationParams() to
create and configure the LocationRequest object for
location updates.
▪ Here we are configuring the location update interval using
the setInterval() method, and setting its value as 5000 ms .
▪ In case another app on the same device is also using
Location services and has a shorter update interval, our app
will get updated more frequently than desired. In such cases,
the setFastestInterval() method comes handy to restrict
our app to not receive the location updates below the limit
set in this method, which is 2000 ms in our case .
o Retrieving Location Address:
▪ Location-aware apps, typically, perform various tasks after
determining the current location coordinates.
▪ This process of determining the street address from the
location coordinates is referred to as reverse geocoding.
Android facilitates this process using the Geocoder API.
o Code (9.5):
▪ The getCurrentAddress() method is called on tap of the Get
Address Button.
▪ Once this is ensured, we can use the getFromLocation()
method of the Geocoder to retrieve the location address
based on the latitude and longitude.
▪ There might be several street addresses that are mapped to
a specific latitude–longitude; therefore, the
getFromLocation() method may return multiple street
addresses.
▪ Street address(es) is retrieved as a list of Address object(s)
wherein each address is a set of Strings.
▪ We can retrieve various address-related information from
these set of Strings such as address line, country code,
country name, locale, locality, and postal code. we have
retrieved the address line, locality, and country name using
the getAddressLine(), getLocality(), and
getCountryName() methods, respectively.
Flowchart for flow control locating user code:

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