Android Location-Based Apps
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this course we cover the wide range of location capabilities of the Android platform including determining user location, power management, translating location data into human-readable street addresses, and much more.
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Course Description
Virtually all Android devices now include the ability to determine the user’s location. The overwhelming majority of apps can benefit from incorporating location information as knowing a user’s location allows your app to better personalize the user experience. In this course we cover the wide range of location capabilities of the Android platform including the different ways to determine the user’s location, the performance and power usage implications of different location strategies, how to translate the raw location coordinates into meaningful street addresses, and much more.
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Course Syllabus
Android Location Basics- 40m 47s
—Introduction 0m 50s
—Accessing the location system 1m 22s
—Location providers and security 5m 4s
—Handling location information 5m 11s
—Demo: Handling location information 4m 25s
—Receiving location updates 3m 31s
—Demo: Receiving location updates 9m 25s
—Getting a single location value 3m 5s
—Demo: Getting a single location value 5m 47s
—Summary 2m 7sAndroid Location Providers- 57m 44s
—Introduction 1m 21s
—Providers and provider characteristics 2m 19s
—Selecting providers by behavior 3m 31s
—Demo: Selecting providers by behavior 6m 45s
—Provider availability and influences 5m 27s
—Demo: Provider availability and influences - Part 1 12m 32s
—Demo: Provider availability and influences - Part 2 9m 49s
—Enabling location-related features 2m 56s
—Demo: Enabling location-related features 4m 26s
—Accessing underlying GPS information 1m 42s
—The Passive location provider 1m 16s
—Demo: The Passive location provider 3m 1s
—Summary 2m 39sAndroid Location Management and Threading- 44m 55sControlling Android Location Frequency- 36m 33sHuman-Readable Location Information- 33m 19s
