Android Activity Recognition not working with Nexus 5

Question

I had a code working that was using Google\'s Activity Recognition Updates. Now all of a sudden these seem to send updates either several times per second or never although requ

Answer 1

As suggested by canopi, increase the detection 'time', in which 0 will give you the fastest result.

I had encountered the same problem and instead of adding the build() part on onCreate directly, I added the method below and called it on onCreate(). Try to trace the code from this google sample. I got the code stripped down from there.

protected synchronized void buildGoogleApiClient() {
    mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
            .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
            .addApi(ActivityRecognition.API)
            .build();
}

Also add buildGoogleApiClient() to your onCreate method.