Hey fellows, I need your help.
I've done one or two applications that use GPS until now. All of them work, but they're a little inconstant in this matter.
Now I'm working on a new one and I'm having troubles to make it work in the costumer's BB.
I am testing in a Curve 8310, which works quite well, and the custumer is trying in a Curve and a Bold devices (don't know exactly which model). He uses other applications like GoogleMaps (I dont have a clue of how do they get the user location so well) and foursquare, and they work well with the GPS.
I'm aiming for the 4.2.1 OS version.
The method I am using to retrieve the Location is the following:
public static void getCoordinates() {
new Thread() {
public void run() {
try {
LocationProvider locationProvider = LocationProvider.getInstance(null);
Location location = locationProvider.getLocation(90);
longitude = location.getQualifiedCoordinates() .getLongitude();
latitude = location.getQualifiedCoordinates().getLatitude();
} catch (Exception e) {
// handle exception
}
}
}.start();
}
It's quite simple and I didn't find nothing much different from this anywhere else in my researchs.
I also tried to instantiate the LocationProvider with a Criteria but I think that doesn't makes much difference, since all I need is basic stuff, and most of it are already set by default.
Is there anything else I could do?
I read about the many types of location retrieval that exists as PDE, Cellsite, GPS, etc. But I don't care, I just want the lat and long, shouldn't it work that simple way, doesn't matter how? Or is this GPS thing something like the HttpConnection **bleep**, that we need to do everything by ourselves with a lot of workarounds?
I would really appreciate your help.
Thank you.
Rgs,
Dan
