Listen to location access disable/enable in settings

Question

In Android OS, in "Settings" --> "Location services", there is a toggle button named "Access to my location" which can be used to disable & enable location info access from apps.

Currently, I am developing a location service application. I am wondering, how can I listen to this setting in my Android project? Is there any broadcast receiver I can use to know right away when user disable or enable "Access to my location" ?

If there isn't any broadcast receiver for it, how can I listen to this change in my Android project?

Answer 1

This works for me:

Add receiver to the Manifest file:

<receiver
        android:name="com.eegeo.location.LocationProviderChangedReceiver">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.location.PROVIDERS_CHANGED" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

Check both location providers in receiver:

public class LocationProviderChangedReceiver  extends BroadcastReceiver{

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        boolean anyLocationProv = false;
        LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) MyMainActivity.context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

        anyLocationProv |= locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
        anyLocationProv |=  locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);

        Log.i("", "Location service status" + anyLocationProv);


    }

}

Though this receiver is called more than once due to obvious reasons, but this will tell you the status.