Re: [android-developers] LocationManager minDistance settings question

2012-12-14 Thread Kristopher Micinski
FYI minDistance cannot be guaranteed to work the way you want: it may fire sooner (or perhaps later), it's more of a guide than a hard parameter. (In fact, before additional CTS testing, I believe it was sometimes disregarded entirely, because of a bug in some devices, this was for certain with mi

[android-developers] LocationManager minDistance settings question

2012-12-14 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm converting some of my Windows Phone apps to Android. The apps all revolve around movement tracking. In WP7 the location watcher has a "MovementThreshold" property that sets how much movement is necessary for the GPS to trigger a movement event. Typically we want a lower threshold when wa