[android-beginners] Re: getting my current location

2009-12-06 Thread redants1972
Thanks for your help guys. I can see where I'm going wrong so should be able to make some progress now. Cheers. On Nov 30, 10:23 am, Neilz wrote: > Yes, the first attempt at grabbing a location is often null. You need > to add a listener (onLocationChanged) and take it from there. > > On Nov 29,

[android-beginners] Re: getting my current location

2009-11-30 Thread Neilz
Yes, the first attempt at grabbing a location is often null. You need to add a listener (onLocationChanged) and take it from there. On Nov 29, 7:03 pm, Lance Nanek wrote: > If you use the Logcat view in Eclipse or the "adb logcat" command from > the SDK on the command line you can see why your ap

[android-beginners] Re: getting my current location

2009-11-29 Thread Lance Nanek
If you use the Logcat view in Eclipse or the "adb logcat" command from the SDK on the command line you can see why your app is crashing. In this case it is probably that getLastKnownLocation is returning null, which it can as per the documentation: http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-CN/reference/

[android-beginners] Re: getting my current location

2009-11-29 Thread redants1972
Thanks for the advice. I am still having trouble however. When I add the debug line as advised, the app falls over and as far as I can tell, 'location' is coming out as null. If I comment out the log.i code then it works ok. So it seems to me that there is something wrong with the way I am trying

[android-beginners] Re: getting my current location

2009-11-27 Thread Neilz
Hi. As you are using Eclipse, you can use the Android plug in, and the build in Emulator Control, to load up your KML file and manually send location updates to the emulator. You find it at Window->Show View- >Other->Android->Emulator Control. That should get you going. To debug: import android.u