Get the phone's last known location using LocationManager

An improvement to this would be:

// This fetches a list of available location providers List providers = lm.getProviders(true)

This should return an array like this, depending on what is available:

['network', 'gps']

The last one will always be the most accurate, so you can then do

/ Loop over the array backwards, and if you get an accurate location, then break out the loop/ for (int i=providers.length();i>=0;i--) { Location l = lm.getLastKnownLocation(providers[i]); if (l != null) break; }

Thanks for your comments!

I've checked the code again and updated it with your suggestions. Works perfect and quite flexible like this!

Excellent, just what I needed. Cheers Guys!

Hi, shouldn't it be either what Tane Piper said that is:

for (int i=providers.length();i>=0;i--)

OR

for (int i=providers.length()-1;i>0;i--)

you seem to the minus 1 but u have i>=0

nvm, i was drunk

it work as it tells

how do i use this????

Copy and paste that code into your MainActivity, then use it.

double[] MyLoc = new double[2]; MyLoc = getGPS();

MyLoc[0] is now the lat, [1] is the long.

Or create a class with a constructor that sets the context, make this as a function in that class, then call this function as above after instantiating the class.

public class GetLocationNetGPS {

Context mContext;

private GetLocationNetGPS(Context mContext)
{
    this.mContext = mContext;
}

private double[] GetLoc() {
    LocationManager lm = (LocationManager)  mContext.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);  
    List<String> providers = lm.getProviders(true);

    /* Loop over the array backwards, and if you get an accurate location, then break out the loop*/
    Location l = null;

    for (int i=providers.size()-1; i>=0; i--) {
            l = lm.getLastKnownLocation(providers.get(i));
            if (l != null) break;
    }

    double[] gps = new double[2];
    if (l != null) {
            gps[0] = l.getLatitude();
            gps[1] = l.getLongitude();
    }
    return gps;
}

}

Hello, I seem to be a bit new to this. Could you list the steps more in detail? Thanks

i cant understand how to use this and where to use this?????????plzz help