This example shows how to access information from a device's GPS receiver and write it to a file in a device's external storage area.
We import the classes and modules that will be needed by the application. The most relevant are the classes from the android.location module.
from java.lang import String
from android.app import Activity
from android.content import Context
from android.location import GpsStatus, Location, LocationListener, \
LocationManager
from android.os import Bundle
from android.view import View, ViewGroup
from android.widget import ImageView, LinearLayout, Space, TextView
We import the the following module so that we can specify the theme of the application.
import android.R
We also import a custom class from the entrywidget module that we use to accept user input.
from entrywidget import EntryWidget
We define a class based on the standard Activity class. This represents the application, and will be used to present a graphical interface to the user.
class GPSFileActivity(Activity):
__interfaces__ = [GpsStatus.Listener, LocationListener]
The activity implements two interfaces: one which handles changes to the GPS status and another which handles general notifications about location.
The initialisation method simply calls the corresponding method in the base class and initialises two variables that are used to keep a textual log of events and record the old connection status.
def __init__(self):
Activity.__init__(self)
self.oldStatus = 0
The onCreate method calls the corresponding base class method before obtaining an instance of the location service manager and setting up the user interface.
def onCreate(self, bundle):
Activity.onCreate(self, bundle)
We set the theme of the application to the device's default. This tends to make it fit in better with the rest of the user interface.
self.setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_DeviceDefault)
We obtain a location service manager object and cast it to the correct type so that we can call its addGpsStatusListener method to register the activity as a listener. This requires us to implement the GpsStatus.Listener interface that we declared earlier.
self.manager = CAST(self.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE), LocationManager)
self.manager.addGpsStatusListener(self)
We create a user interface that contains TextViews showing the currently known location, the number of satellites visible to the device and a log of events.
self.locationView = TextView(self)
self.locationView.setBackgroundColor(0xff404040)
self.locationView.setTextColor(0xffffffff)
self.locationView.setText("No location")
self.entryWidget = EntryWidget(self)
self.entryWidget.setEnabled(False)
layout = LinearLayout(self)
layout.setLayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams(
ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT))
layout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL)
layout.addView(self.locationView)
layout.addView(Space(self))
layout.addView(self.entryWidget)
self.setContentView(layout)
The onResume method is called when the activity is first started, or when the user navigates to it. We call the corresponding base class method and request notification of location updates every 500 milliseconds and if the device moves more than 1 metre.
def onResume(self):
Activity.onResume(self)
self.manager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,
long(500), float(1), self)
The onPause method is called when the user navigates away from the activity. We call the corresponding base class method and remove our request for location updates.
def onPause(self):
Activity.onPause(self)
self.manager.removeUpdates(self)
The following four methods are part of the LocationListener interface.
We implement the onLocationChanged method to handle location changes, using the Location object supplied to update the location text displayed in the user interface.
def onLocationChanged(self, location):
self.locationView.setText(
"Latitude: " + location.convert(location.getLatitude(), Location.FORMAT_SECONDS) + \
"\nLongitude: " + \
location.convert(location.getLongitude(), Location.FORMAT_SECONDS)
)
We also inform the entry widget of the new location.
self.entryWidget.setLocation(location)
In the onProviderDisabled method, we simply report that a location provider has been disabled, updating the status TextView.
def onProviderDisabled(self, provider):
self.entryWidget.setEnabled(False)
Similarly, in the onProviderEnabled method, we report that a location provider has been enabled, updating the status TextView, and request updates of half a second in frequency and for changes of 1 metre or more.
def onProviderEnabled(self, provider):
self.manager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,
long(500), float(1), self)
The onStatusChanged method is required by an implementation of the LocationListener interface, declared earlier.
def onStatusChanged(self, provider, status, extras):
pass
The onGpsStatusChanged method is required by an implementation of the GpsStatus.Listener interface, declared earlier.
def onGpsStatusChanged(self, event):
pass
