If you expect to do something time sensitive by hoping that location
manager respects the frequency argument: it doesn't. For triggering when
the phone is moved you have to monitor more closely. That's probably not
the best idea: you'll kill the battery. I'd figure something else out.
Kris
On Jan 20, 2013 5:32 PM, "g...@deanblakely.com" <g...@deanblakely.com>
wrote:
> Kristopher,
> Sorry but I don't know what you mean by "useful for scheduling within your
> app". I'm using the locationlistener to trigger when the phone is moved.
> (I'm targeting Gingerbread)
> Are you saying that even with jellybean it doesn't work right?
>
> Would I be better off explicitly getting a new Location on a method
> dependent on a timer?
> Thanks, Gary
>
> On Sunday, January 20, 2013 2:40:31 PM UTC-7, Kristopher Micinski wrote:
>
>> Even now, you can't expect that method to be useful for scheduling
>> *within* your app to any kind of real granularity.
>>
>> kris
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Mark Murphy <mmu...@commonsware.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Quoting the documentation for requestLocationUpdates():
>> >
>> > "Prior to Jellybean, the minTime parameter was only a hint, and some
>> > location provider implementations ignored it. From Jellybean and
>> > onwards it is mandatory for Android compatible devices to observe both
>> > the minTime and minDistance parameters."
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:28 PM, ga...@deanblakely.com
>> > <ga...@deanblakely.com> wrote:
>> >> in the onCreate event for my Service I setup locationlistener...
>> >>
>> >> locMgr =
>> >> (LocationManager)**getSystemService(Context.**LOCATION_SERVICE);
>>
>> >> locLstnr = new MyLocationListener();
>> >> debugLog("Instantiated new Location listener", false);
>> >> locMgr.requestLocationUpdates(**LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,
>> 10000, 10,
>> >> locLstnr);
>> >>
>> >> The 10000 is supposed to mean that I want the event to go off approx
>> every
>> >> 10 seconds. My class statement is . . .
>> >>
>> >> public class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener
>> >> {
>> >> GeoPoint LastGeoPoint;
>> >> . .. . .
>> >>
>> >> But the onLocationChanged event is going off approx twice per second.
>> Why?
>> >> Thanks, Gary
>> >>
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