LocationRequest smallest displacement and accuracy

Question

I\'m building an Android app in which I need to have a very accurate location at a very high frequency. I dove into google play services api for location, and found the Location

Answer 1

The "LocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement" doesn't matter for accuracy, it's just to avoid unnecessary updates, you can continuing using that.

There is no method to enhance low accuracy, you just get a point with some accuracy (better or worse), if you are not interested on positions with low accuracy just skip this location and wait for a better one.

This page could help you about accuracy and consumption, but take in mind no perfect accuracy exist, with Wi-Fi the accuracy is 100m for worse accuracy.

Here you have the accuracy for each priority.
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html#location-request

Here the IO Session from Google engineers, very useful, you can get the PDF there too.
https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325337477

Updated Links brokens

The PDF Presentation

The IO session

Hope this helps :D.