[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-08 Thread Sahil R Cooner
googles map software for phones uses 3 towers to triangulate. why don't you try that? ruben wrote: > In android, I'd like to obtain user’s geographical location, as well > as current time. I wonder if there is any variable, class, etc. to do > so > > thanks, > ruben > > > > > -- Sahil R.

[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-08 Thread ruben
well, what I need is to add this info (location, time) as part of a bigger piece of code –in other words, I want to see/read location and time from my android-based code. ruben On May 8, 4:07 pm, Sahil R Cooner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > googles map software for phones uses 3 towers to trian

[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-08 Thread keashF
ruben, I suggest you take a look at the docs and search the group before asking such things. On 8 Mai, 16:31, ruben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, what I need is to add this info (location, time) as part of a > bigger piece of code –in other words, I want to see/read location and > time fr

[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-08 Thread fernan.do
Android makes it really easy to get the current location and time. Getting the time (presumably if you are trying to get this to production you would like to get the current time of the system) so you would do something like (Google recommends using the GregorianCalendar object in Java): Gregorian

[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-08 Thread Sahil R Cooner
thank you that was actually very helpful information. fernan.do wrote: > Android makes it really easy to get the current location and time. > Getting the time (presumably if you are trying to get this to > production you would like to get the current time of the system) so > you would do somethin

[android-developers] Re: retrieving a user’s geogr aphical location

2008-05-09 Thread Hindin
Look into http://code.google.com/p/wrru/ - it contains code that fetches the location and use it to control MapView On May 8, 5:01 pm, ruben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In android, I'd like to obtain user’s geographical location, as well > as current time. I wonder if there is any variable, clas