Android geofence with mock location provider

Question

I have started developing on Android with last Location services feature : Geofences !! Is there any known problem with mock location provider ? Following example here (https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.html) my intent service never fired even if the current location is inside geofence. I'm using FakeGPS android app as mock location provider and if I simulate a route I see the location changes on Google Maps app, so the mock location provider is working well. Any ideas ?

Thanks. Paolo.

Answer 1

I tried forever to get this to work. What a pain Google! Since it says geofences can easily be tested using mocks.

The magic trick is to use the provider name "network" in the Location passed to setMockLocation.

    Location location = new Location("network");
    location.setLatitude(latitude);
    location.setLongitude(longitude);
    location.setTime(new Date().getTime());
    location.setAccuracy(3.0f);
    location.setElapsedRealtimeNanos(System.nanoTime());

    LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.setMockLocation(_googleApiClient, location);

Answer 2

Actually Intent service used in the mentioned example works good if your app is in foreground but when the app is in background, this IntentService is never called.So we need to use Broadcast-Receiver instead of Intent service.

I found this blog helpful in getting solution.

http://davehiren.blogspot.in/2015/01/android-geofence-stop-getting.html

Answer 3

Geofences use FusedLocationProviderApi so to mock them you have to use FusedLocationProviderApi.setMockLocation