2013
Pluralsight
Jim Wilson
3:33
English

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.

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 7s
Android 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 39s
Android Location Management and Threading
44m 55s
Introduction 1m 16s
Moving location off main thread 4m 56s
Demo: Moving location off main thread 2m 44s
Updating UI from location thread 4m 44s
Demo: Updating UI from location thread 12m 13s
Background location tracking 1m 51s
Demo: Background location tracking 13m 33s
Summary 3m 38s
Controlling Android Location Frequency
36m 33s
Introduction 0m 41s
Reducing frequency of location updates 6m 57s
Ways to receive location updates 1m 47s
Location and PendingIntents 3m 50s
Implementing location with PendingIntents 2m 48s
Demo: Implementing location with PendingIntents 11m 58s
When to avoid location with PendingIntents 2m 2s
Proximity alerts 3m 53s
Summary 2m 37s
Human-Readable Location Information
33m 19s
Introduction 0m 45s
Location Information - computers vs. people 2m 44s
Geocoder class 3m 31s
Demo: Geocoder class 9m 33s
How Geocoder class works 4m 23s
Using Geocoder in a UI friendly manner 2m 28s
Demo: Using Geocoder in a UI friendly manner 8m 21s
Summary 1m 34s

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