Hour 14. Adding Support for Location-Based Services
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Designing the favorite place feature
• Using location-based services
• Using geocoding services
• Working with maps
In this hour, you add a new feature to the Been There, Done That! settings screen—the ability for the user to set his or her favorite place in the world. The user configures this information by using the current location provided by location-based services (LBS) on the handset or by supplying a place name (for example, The Grand Canyon) that can be resolved into the corresponding GPS coordinates using the geocoding services provided in the Android SDK.
Designing the Favorite Place Feature
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