[ACCEPTED]-Create an Android GPS tracking application-tracking

Accepted answer

Score: 22

The source code for the Android mobile application 4 open-gpstracker which you appreciated is available here.

You 3 can checkout the code using SVN client application 2 or via Git:

svn checkout http://open-gpstracker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-gpstracker-read-only
git clone https://code.google.com/p/open-gpstracker/

Debugging the source code will 1 surely help you.

Score: 0

Basically you need following things to make 31 location detector android app

Location Listener, which detect current location
Marker to add and animate when person moves
Polyline to add path on person's movement
Services for sending and receiving location
Rest API / Firebase Realtime Database to store and fetch locations

Now if you 30 write each of these module yourself then 29 it needs much time and efforts. So it would be better to use ready resources that are 28 being maintained already.

Using all these 27 resources, you will be able to create an 26 flawless android location detection app.

1. Location Listening

You 25 will first need to listen for current location 24 of user. You can use any of below libraries 23 to quick start.

Google Play Location Samples

This library provide last 22 known location, location updates

Location Manager

With this 21 library you just need to provide a Configuration 20 object with your requirements, and you will 19 receive a location or a fail reason with 18 all the stuff are described above handled.

Live Location Sharing

Use 17 this open source repo of the Hypertrack 16 Live app to build live location sharing 15 experience within your app within a few 14 hours. HyperTrack Live app helps you share 13 your Live Location with friends and family 12 through your favorite messaging app when 11 you are on the way to meet up. HyperTrack 10 Live uses HyperTrack APIs and SDKs.

2. Markers Library

Google Maps Android API utility library

Marker clustering — handles the display of a large number of points
Heat maps — display a large number of points as a heat map
IconGenerator — display text on your Markers
Poly decoding and encoding — compact encoding for paths, interoperability with Maps API web services
Spherical geometry — for example: computeDistance, computeHeading, computeArea
KML — displays KML data
GeoJSON — displays and styles GeoJSON data

3. Polyline Libraries

DrawRouteMaps

If you 9 want to add route maps feature in your apps 8 you can use DrawRouteMaps to make you work 7 more easier. This is lib will help you to 6 draw route maps between two point LatLng.

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