How do I get the current GPS location programmatically in Android?

Question

I need to get my current location using GPS programmatically. How can i achieve it?

Answer 1

GoogleSamples has verbose example using latest FusedLocationProviderApi. Unfortunately the most upvoted answers are out of date.

Follow the below examples to implement Location Services using FusedLocationProviderApi

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-location/tree/master/LocationUpdates

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-location/blob/master/LocationUpdates/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/location/sample/locationupdates/MainActivity.java