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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition

You're reading from   Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280375
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Anatomy of an Android App FREE CHAPTER 2. The Xamarin.Android Architecture 3. Creating the Points Of Interest App 4. Adding a List View 5. Adding a Details View 6. Making Your App Orientation-aware 7. Designing for Multiple Screen Sizes 8. Creating Data Storage Mechanisms 9. Making POIApp Location Aware 10. Adding the Camera App Integration 11. Publishing an App to the App Store Index

Adding location services to POIApp


In POIApp, we have the following two different scenarios for requesting location updates:

  • In the POI list, we need to calculate the distance of each of the listed POIs. In this scenario, we want to request location change notifications on an ongoing basis and use the most current location to calculate the distance.

  • In POIDetailFragment, we would like to request the current location when adding a new POI. In this scenario, we would want to request a single location change notification.

Adding location services to the POI list

Now that we have some idea of how to add location services to an app, let's add location services to POIListFragment as follows:

  1. Declare a private instance of LocationManager and obtain a reference in the OnCreateView() method as follows:

    LocationManager locMgr;
    ...
    public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
      View view = inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.POIListFragment, container...
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