14. Using Location-Based Services (LBS) APIs
Whether for safety or for convenience, location-based features on cell phones are mostly standard these days. As such, incorporating location information, navigation, and mapping features into your project can make your application much more robust.
In this chapter, you learn how to leverage location-based services available within the Android SDK. You learn how to determine the location of the handset using a particular device hardware provider, such as a built-in Global Positioning Systems (GPS) unit. You also learn how to translate raw location coordinates into descriptive location names—and how to do the reverse. Finally, we explore a couple of different methods for mapping and utilities that ...
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