How to Programmatically Enable Gps in Android Cupcake

How to programmatically enable GPS in Android Cupcake

You can't, starting with Android 1.5. The most you can do is pop open the activity to allow the user to toggle it on/off. Use the action held in android.provider.Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS to craft an Intent to open this activity.

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you cannot programmatically turn GPS on and off. the best you can do is send the user to the settings screen that allows them to do it themselves.

final LocationManager manager = (LocationManager) getSystemService( Context.LOCATION_SERVICE );
if ( !manager.isProviderEnabled( LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER ) ) {
     new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
     startActivity(intent);
}

there existed hacks to turn GPS on / off programmatically, but they work only in older versions of Android. even if you could, don't do this. the user may have turned off GPS because they didn't want to allow apps to track them precisely. it's extremely bad form to try and force change their decision.

if you require GPS to be enabled, check for it when your app starts and bail if the user won't enable it.

Android GPS enable programmatically

You can't, starting with Android 1.5. The most you can do is pop open the activity to allow the user to toggle it on/off.

Use the action held in android.provider.Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS to craft an Intent to open this activity.

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Based on the user interaction that I have seen, I would say the preferred way to do this is simply to prompt the user to turn on GPS if it is off. This is totally speculation though.

See also:

• Turn off GPS programmatically when i exit my program
• How to programmatically enable GPS in Android Cupcake.

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Try this...

   locationManager.removeUpdates(myLocationListener); locationManager = null;

Is any possibility to switch ON the GPS provider in android programmatically?

You can't control it at the system level. Only users are allowed to do that. But you can stop listening for GPS events using something like:

locationManager.removeUpdates(myLocationListener); 
locationManager = null;

You can also launch the settings screen so the user can do it himself using:

if(!LocationManager.isProviderEnabled(android.location.LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER ))
{
    Intent myIntent = new Intent( Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS );
    startActivity(myIntent);
}

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After excessive testing of several approaches (a selection):

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I found that on Android v4.2.2 it was indeed not possible to toggle the GPS status (regardless of what exactly the status implies, as also asked in my question). I particularly found a comment in question How can I enable or disable the GPS programmatically on Android? to be misleading. Even if the exploit with the power control widget should have reemerged in 4.2.2, it has since been fixed.

Can we Enable Use Google Location Services on 4.0 programatically?

You can't do that. Go through this. It will give you detailed information.

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