Using the AGPS (wifi rather than Sat) will speed up the process a lot but less accurate. In most cases if going off a home wifi it is pretty accurate for me. I also notice if the user is OUTSIDE and the phone is not in the pocket the speed for SAT is pretty good (expect on my 1st gen droid and some other offshoots of the Moto Droid)
You could grab the AGPS location during a splash screen and query the accuracy. If it is over X amount ( X being what you determine for meters) then you can call up the SAT service for the user. From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dashman Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:10 PM To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [android-developers] improving gps lock time ok - maybe there's other methods. i've seen apps decrease lock time by contacting NTP servers. Also apparently assisted gps helps - assisted gps just gets a wifi geo location - and just using that helps. i have a geo location also. i'm sure gps lock speeds can be decreased if you have an approx geo location...and maybe the precise time - i.e. know the sat positions etc. but maybe there's no public api for this - internally looks like android uses AGPS to speed up lock. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
