Hour 14. Adding Support for Location-Based Services
In this hour, you add a new feature to the Been There, Done That! application—the ability for the user to set his or her favorite place in the world from the settings screen. The user can set this information in two ways: by using the current location provided by location-based services (LBS) on the handset or by supplying a place name that can be resolved into the corresponding GPS coordinates using the geocoding functionality provided in the Android SDK.
Designing the Favorite Place Feature
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