Android Promise Location

Detect the current device location. Geofence a given location, Detect movement activities. Geocode back location to the name of the location

Features

• Find the current location of device
• Find Name of the location with specific coordinates
• Activity recognition
• Geofencing

Setup

build.gradle

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

android {
    ...
    compileOptions {
            sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
            targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        }
}

dependencies {
     ...
     implementation 'com.github.android-promise:location:TAG'
     implementation 'com.github.android-promise:commons:1.0'
}

Initialization

Initialize Promise in your main application file, entry point

App.java

  ...
  @Override
  public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    Promise.init(this);
    ...
  }
  ...

Sample Location of current location

    @Override
  public void onMapReady(final GoogleMap googleMap) {
    this.googleMap = googleMap;
    PromiseLocation.with(this).location()
        .config(LocationParams.BEST_EFFORT).once().start(location -> runOnUiThread(() -> {
      locations.add(location);
      googleMap.clear();
      MapUtils.addMarkers(this, this.googleMap, locations.stream().map(loc -> new MarkerOptions()
          .position(new LatLng(loc.getLatitude(), loc.getLongitude()))
          .title("Accuracy: " + loc.getAccuracy() + " Provider: " + loc.getProvider())).collect(Collectors.toList()));
      /*LatLng latLng = new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());
      CameraUpdate update = CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(latLng, 15);
      googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(latLng).title("Current location"));
      googleMap.moveCamera(update);*/
      Toast.makeText(MapsActivity.this, "Updated location", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }));
  }

New features on the way

watch this repo to stay updated

Developed By

• Peter Vincent - dev4vin@gmail.com

Donations

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Thank you very much in advance!

Pull requests / Issues / Improvement requests

Feel free to contribute and ask!

License

Copyright 2018 Peter Vincent

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 Android Promise;
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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