How to find my current location (latitude + longitude) in every 5 second in Android?

Question

I tried many code snippets but all the example takes too much time to provide latitude and longitude .

I want to get current latitude in every 5 seconds .

Answer 1

You can create service that broadcasts your latitude and longitude in every 5 seconds using LocationManager.

public class MyLocationService extends Service {

private LocationManager locationManager;
private LocationListener locationListener;

public final String APP_BROADCAST_RECEIVER = "LatLonReciever"; // You should define it somewhere else as a static. e.g within Const class 

@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    if (locationListener == null ) {
        locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);


        locationListener = new LocationListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
                locationIsChanged(location);
            }

            @Override
            public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
            }
        };
    }

    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 5000, locationListener); // here 5000 is 5 seconds
    return START_STICKY;
}


@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    return null;
}

private void locationIsChanged(Location location){
    Intent intent = new Intent(APP_BROADCAST_RECEIVER); 
    intent.putExtra("lat", location.getLatitude());
    intent.putExtra("lon", location.getLongitude());
    sendBroadcast(intent);
    }
}

Also, don't foret to register the reciever where you want to recieve the results:

public final String APP_BROADCAST_RECEIVER = "LatLonReciever"; 

BroadcastReceiver broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
            @Override
            public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                // Here you do what you want with recieved intent that contains lat and lon
            }
        };

IntentFilter intentFilter = new IntentFilter(APP_BROADCAST_RECEIVER);
registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, intentFilter);