Application getting wrong location until open inbuilt Google Map application

Question

I have developed one application which is used to find current location of device. I have used Fused Location API to get current location.

I am facing very strange issue, in some of devices i am not getting accurate current location until i open inbuilt Google Map, once i open Google Map and back to my application at that time application return exact location.

Here is my Location Request.

mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
mLocationRequest.setInterval(UPDATE_INTERVAL);
mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(FATEST_INTERVAL);
mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(DISPLACEMENT); // 10 meters

Can anyone tell me what is the wrong? Your help is really appreciated.

Answer 1

So Waze and we used FusedLocation in past and faced a lot of problems. The API is broken. There are some devices that not perf it properly. Activity recognition that fused a lot relay not working and recognize staff properly. We end, to switching back to location manager API.

Here the snippet:

Init location manager and start to request the updates on different thread. I personally register separate listeners for each provider

if (mLocationManager == null) {
        LOGGER.info("Location track,start called first time. Creating Location Manager");
        mLocationManager = (LocationManager) mContextWeakReference.get()
                .getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

        mLocationHandlerThread
                = new HandlerThread("LocationThread", Thread.NORM_PRIORITY);
        mLocationHandlerThread.start();
        // Now get the Looper from the HandlerThread
        // NOTE: This call will block until the HandlerThread gets control and initializes its Looper
        Looper looper = mLocationHandlerThread.getLooper();
        Location networkLastKnownLocation = null;
        Location gpsLastKnownLocation = null;
        mGpsLocationListener = new GpsLocationListener();
        mNetworkLocationListener = new NetworkLocationListener();

        // Register the listener with the Location Manager to receive location updates
        if (mLocationManager.getAllProviders().contains(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
            mLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,
                    LOCATION_REQUEST_INTERVAL_MILLIS, SMALLEST_DISPLACEMENT_METERS,
                    mGpsLocationListener,
                    looper);

            gpsLastKnownLocation = mLocationManager
                    .getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
        } else {
            setGpsProviderAvailable(false);
        }
        if (mLocationManager.getAllProviders().contains(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER)) {
            networkLastKnownLocation = mLocationManager
                    .getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
            mLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER,
                    LOCATION_REQUEST_INTERVAL_MILLIS, SMALLEST_DISPLACEMENT_METERS,
                    mNetworkLocationListener,
                    looper);
        }

        setLastKnownLocationDifferentProviders(gpsLastKnownLocation,
                networkLastKnownLocation);

    }

And the listeners are:

public class GpsLocationListener implements LocationListener {

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        LOGGER.info("Location track ,onLocationChanged location={}", location);
        switch (location.getProvider()) {
            case LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER:
                if (mLocationManager != null) {
                    mLocationManager.removeUpdates(mNetworkLocationListener);
                }
                break;
        }
        setLastKnownLocation(location);
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
        LOGGER.info("onStatusChanged: {}, status: {}", provider, status);
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
        LOGGER.info("onProviderEnabled: " + provider);
        if (provider.equals(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
            setGpsProviderAvailable(true);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
        LOGGER.info("onProviderDisabled: " + provider);
        if (provider.equals(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
            setGpsProviderAvailable(false);
        }
    }
}

public class NetworkLocationListener implements LocationListener {

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        LOGGER.info("Location track ,onLocationChanged location={}", location);
        switch (location.getProvider()) {
            case LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER:
                setLastKnownLocation(location);
                break;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
        LOGGER.info("onStatusChanged: {}, status: {}", provider, status);
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
        LOGGER.info("onProviderEnabled: " + provider);
        if (provider.equals(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
            setGpsProviderAvailable(true);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
        LOGGER.info("onProviderDisabled: " + provider);
        if (provider.equals(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
            setGpsProviderAvailable(false);
        }
    }
}

Don't forgot to unregister and stop all threads :)