How to receive location updates
If your application needs frequent location updates, your application can request periodic updates. This recipe will demonstrate this using the requestLocationUpdates() method from GoogleApiClient.
Getting ready
Create a new project in Android Studio and call it: LocationUpdates. Use the default Phone & Tablet options and select Empty Activity when prompted for Activity Type.
How to do it...
Since we are receiving updates from the system, we won't need a button for this recipe. Our layout will consist of just the TextView to see the location data. Open the Android Manifest and follow these steps:
- Add the following permission:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
- Open the file
build.gradle ...
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