Switch off GPS programmatically

Question

What i have: Currently my app is giving location through gps.

what i want: Gps to turn off automatically after i exit from the application. Because it keeps on telling me the location time and again that looks odd and also gps consume a lot battery.

Answer 1

Looking at above comment thread it seems its possible to turn OFF GPS programatically (But seeing only 12 Upvotes)

But if you switch OFF GPS from your application programatically, what if other applications use GPS Service ?

The solution would be like

Open Settings of android and then tell user to turn OFF GPS when he exits from the application...

For this you can do like :

Intent i = new Intent(android.provider.Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
startActivity(i);

OR

You can try like

locationManager.removeUpdates(myLocationListener); 
locationManager = null;

This shutdown gps for this app, but its still available for use by other apps.

Answer 2

This code can alter your gps.But it is not documented

 final Intent poke = new Intent();
            poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider");
            poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE);
            poke.setData(Uri.parse("3")); 
            sendBroadcast(poke);