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How to find your location on android programmatically?

How do I set custom/mock location in Android?

  • I have made an App that shows up location searched by the user.Now I want to set this location as the current location in such a way that the Android system assumes that this particular location is the current location.Now whatever the apps(Fb,Twitter,Quora... Etc) installed in a device must read this location as current location.How do I achieve this?

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    I don't think what you want here is mock locations. If you want apps to assume you are at a particular location then its not the GPS location that apps like google or play store use for location detection. Apps use your IP for that. Using IP makes it very easy and generic since everyone will have one, unlike GPS which can be disabled with a single click. You can mask your location using VPN. Try Tunnel bear for starters, simple and quick. You can make different profiles to mask your IP.

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As far as I am aware, you can only set the mock location for your own app, not all apps on the device. To test your app with mock locations, you can follow the tutorial here - http://developer.android.com/training/location/location-testing.html

Lata Sadhwani

Does this work for above requirement? private void setMockLocation(double latitude, double longitude, float accuracy) {                 lm.addTestProvider (LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,                 "requiresNetwork" == "",                 "requiresSatellite" == "",                 "requiresCell" == "",                 "hasMonetaryCost" == "",                 "supportsAltitude" == "",                 "supportsSpeed" == "",                 "supportsBearing" == "",                 android.location.Criteria.POWER_LOW,                 android.location.Criteria.ACCURACY_FINE);              Location newLocation = new Location(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);         newLocation.setLatitude(latitude);         newLocation.setLongitude(longitude);         newLocation.setAccuracy(accuracy);         lm.setTestProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, true);         lm.setTestProviderStatus(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,LocationProvider.AVAILABLE,null,System.currentTimeMillis());              lm.setTestProviderLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, newLocation);          } ** lm is an object of LocationManager **

Anonymous

We at http://www.testmunk.com did a writeup on how you can mock the location on Android devices and run automated tests. It involves the following steps: Preparing the build - add ‘access mock location’ in your manifest file - set debuggable to true Change device settings to ‘Allow mock location’ Write a teststep that involves longitude and latitude, for example using the calabash automation franework: Then /^I am at ([-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+), ([-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]+)$/ do |latitude, longitude|   set_gps_coordinates(latitude, longitude) end The whole writeup you will find here: http://blog.testmunk.com/testing-location-mocking-on-android-devices-calabash-open-source/ and here’s the open source github repo: https://github.com/testmunk/calabash-location-mocking Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

Martin Poschenrieder

After you allowed mock locations and if you want to go the appium route instead of calabash route as explained by below. Use this code sample for https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/e6927c60e2264e32eade441dbfbf57f183310b43/test/functional/android/gpsdemos/location-specs.js#L45 JS

Satyajit Malugu

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