Access the GPS
lazarus / 43-Android

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LittleBritaly · 2013-09-18 07:45

Is there currently any way to access the GPS sensor ?

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LittleBritaly · 2013-09-20 15:22

Managed to answer my own question, there's a code snippet in
androidlcltest, which I couldn't get to compile.

Look for PositionInfo.RequestPositionInfo(pmGPS);

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BigChimp · 2013-09-20 16:22

Nice. Somebody who looks for things himself and even posts back
success!

Welcome to the forum, LittleBritaly! 

Don't do any Android dev myself, but perhaps this page is useful as
well:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LazDeviceAPIs

Thanks,
BigChimp

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LittleBritaly · 2013-09-23 08:18

Thanks BigChimp but shouldn't everyone do that ? (posts any solutions
they find).

The link you sent (I'd already been there), that's where I found my
first glimmer of hope, where it mentioned permissions for
PositionInfo, I then searched all the few examples that exist for
"Positioninfo".


I've found the documentation scattered around and hard to locate, is
there any form of help file for Android under Lazarus ?

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BigChimp · 2013-09-23 08:32

Quote from: LittleBritaly on September 23, 2013, 10:18:10 amThanks
BigChimp but shouldn't everyone do that ? (posts any solutions they
find).
Yes, but apparently it's not so obvious to a lot of people...

Quote from: LittleBritaly on September 23, 2013, 10:18:10 amI've found
the documentation scattered around and hard to locate, is there any
form of help file for Android under Lazarus ?
Not as far as I know. There is an Android category in the wiki that
lists relevant articles:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Category:Android

In general, IMO, documentation is a weak point for Lazarus and FPC. It
is scattered around the wiki, manuals and snippets in the forum. I try
to collect as much stuff on the wiki as I can as that seems to me to
be the best compromise between ease of editing/updating and structure.
Others have different views...