/android-play-location

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Google Play Location Samples

Samples that use Google Play services (GoogleApiClient) and Location APIs to help you make your applications location aware.

This repo contains the following samples:

  1. Basic Location Sample: Retrieve the last known location for a device.
  2. Location Updates: Get updates about a device's location.
  3. Location Address: Use the Geocode API to display a device's location as an address.
  4. Creating and Monitoring Geofences: Create geofences and process enter and exit transitions.
  5. Recognizing the User's Current Activity: Use the ActivityRecognitionApi to determine the user's current activity.
  6. Location Settings: Use the SettingsApi to determine if a device has the location settings needed by an app, and optionally provide a dialog to update the device's settings.

Prerequisites

  • Android API Level >v9
  • Android Build Tools >v21
  • Google Support Repository

Getting Started

These samples use the Gradle build system. To build a sample, use the "gradlew build" command or use "Import Project" in Android Studio.

Support

If you've found an error in these samples, please file an issue: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-location/issues

Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted according to the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Copyright 2014 Google, Inc.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.