Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition

Getting a Location Fix

Now that you have everything set up, you are ready to get a location fix. Your window to the Fused Location Provider API is a class named, appropriately enough, FusedLocationProviderApi. There is one instance of this class. It is a singleton object that lives on LocationServices called FusedLocationApi.

To get a location fix from this API, you need to build a location request. Fused location requests are represented by LocationRequest objects. Create one and configure it in a new method called findImage(). (There are two LocationRequest classes. Use the one with the complete name of com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest.)

Listing 33.14  Building a location request (LocatrFragment.java)

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