[android-developers] Does Android's GPS location provider do a built-in optimization?

2010-12-29 Thread t
how accurate is the data from Android's GPS location provider? does the device always try to seek a satellite, or does it sometimes return an optimization of the past locations without querying the satellites? if this question is device-specific, i'm asking about HTC Hero, HTC Desire and Google

Re: [android-developers] Does Android's GPS location provider do a built-in optimization?

2010-12-29 Thread mohammad shankayi
in most gps devices , the device has a graph of visible sat.s and estimates the postion of sat.s based on it ... sincerely mohammad shankayi On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:59, t tomers...@gmail.com wrote: how accurate is the data from Android's GPS location provider? does the device always try

Re: [android-developers] Does Android's GPS location provider do a built-in optimization?

2010-12-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
That doesn't really make sense. When you ask for location, you will specify how accurate you want the data to be. If you ask for GPS accuracy, it will start using that (if it hasn't already). You keep the request open, so it continuously looks for satellites and tracks movement. Each update it

Re: [android-developers] Does Android's GPS location provider do a built-in optimization?

2010-12-29 Thread mohammad shankayi
dianne is right but this ability is only in A-gps devices and as we know all android devices has the ability of positioning with cell towers :) sincerely mohammad shankayi On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:23, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: That doesn't really make sense. When you ask

Re: [android-developers] Does Android's GPS location provider do a built-in optimization?

2010-12-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Yes if the device does not have a GPS, or if the user has turned off the GPS, you will only get cell or network based location. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, mohammad shankayi mohd...@gmail.comwrote: dianne is right but this ability is only in A-gps devices and as we know all android