James, Thanks for your help. I have seen that link and have been using the approach suggested there which compares the current time to that of the last location update and assumes that the fix is lost if the time difference is too long. This works for me if the mintime and mindistance values are both 0. However, if I set them to 1 sec and 1 meter, then I start getting false indication that the gps fix is lost when I am stationary since updating stops due to mindistance. The solution to this issue that was proposed by a poster in that thread was to issue another requestLocationUpdates, which doesn't seem like a good solution to me. I can use the time difference approach and keep both mintime and mindistance at 0, but I was looking for a better solution.
On Jan 5, 5:14 pm, James Black <planiturth...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the network provider you will implement onstatuschange and then you can > detect. > > You can look > athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/2021176/how-can-i-check-the-curren... > On Jan 5, 2012 6:32 PM, "gotok" <ken0g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am trying to detect when a GPS fix is made (i.e. when the gps icon > > changes from blinking to solid) and when it is lost (i.e. when the gps > > icon changes from solid to blinking). The system obviously knows when > > these changes occur. I have tried using a broadcast receiver to catch > > the intent: > > > IntentFilter filter = new > > IntentFilter("android.location.GPS_FIX_CHANGE"); > > > But I have not been able to get it to work. The intent seems to get > > fired on GPS fix changes, but I > > don't know how to determine if the intent means that the fix is good > > or bad or something else. Is > > this a legitimate intent (I found from a web search) for this purpose? > > If not, what is the best way of detecting GPS Fix changes? > > > thanks... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
