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Andrés Colubri, Processing for Android, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2719-0_9

9. Geolocation

Andrés Colubri

(1)Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The geolocation sensors in our Android devices give us the ability to know where we are with high accuracy, and we can use this information in location-aware apps. In this chapter, we will see how to create this type of app in Processing, and we will develop a final project combining location with images from Google Street View.

Location Data in Android

We use location-aware apps in our smartphones on a daily basis to find places of interest around us, to plan travel directions in advance, or to play location-based games, like Turf and Pokémon GO. All these uses ...

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