Kevin: I think you understand more what I am after. I am making an application that is like My Tracks, but does much more. I want to be able to do tracks besides my own.
So the thinking is, my wife turns on her GPS and has a gmail account. I somehow ping her GPS location feed via JSON or REST or GeoJSON(?), get the points as she moves around, and then my app does all the things it will do with her position changes. Just curious, I was watching myself update last night via Latitude on Google Maps as I drove out for a beer, and it was real time and it was extremely accurate. I presume Google Maps Latitude it is pinging the Latitude service to get these updates in real time?? Or is Latitude somehow using my LocationService and getting real time feeds from my device? Thanks, Chris On Jan 16, 10:56 pm, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was going to suggest My Tracks as well. But I think what the OP wants is > the ability for his wife's phone to update his phone on her progress. I > would guess it's possible, but you'd have two components to the app. The app > that runs on her phone that updates some service of her progress.. maybe > using GPS location every 5 seconds or something (not sure the precision of > GPS info.. anyone know how often it updates?). The second piece would either > be a web service or a SMS listener app on the 2nd phone that would get > updates. If it was solely to be to track one phone from another, probably > have the phone to be tracked send updates out via SMS to the 2nd phone, > which..I think in 2.1. maybe 2.2, added the ability to have SMS listeners or > something like that.. > > Latitude I think has 15 minute updates. There is the option to turn on > real-time updates for a set amount of time, but this has never worked for > me. I've done this with my wife's phone, and I still seem to only get > updates every 10 or 15 minutes. I think for road trips, and finding a phone > or seeing where your wife is.. it's fine. But using it for real-time updates > is not. You're going to be better off writing an app that continually grabs > GPS info and sends that data somewhere. > > Incidentally.. this is an excellent way to keep tabs on someone. ;) > > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try the free open-source Google app called My Tracks. I've used it > > before and it's good. > > > On Jan 17, 9:37 am, Chris Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hmmm... not even sure what a "runner app" is. Do I buy this? How is > > > it integrated in to my app so that i can get a friends location? It > > > is ashame that Latitude for all its hype, is this hard to use and so > > > unreliable. Anyone else have ideas on the easiest and most reliable > > > way to get a friends location? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > On Jan 16, 4:49 pm, Marcin Orlowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 16 January 2011 21:12, Chris Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone out there have a snippet of code that shows how to do > > this > > > > > in an Android app? Or can you point me to a real example? > > > > > Not the answer you expect, but IMHO dedicated "runner" apps would > > > > serve the purpose better and there're couple of such on Market. > > > > Latitude is not reliable (if you ask me) and you won't get as frequent > > > > reports as you may need.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
