android-Location, Sensorsand Maps

Use sensors on the device to add rich location and motion capabilities to your app, from GPS or network location to accelerometer, gyroscope, temperature, barometer, and more.

> This is a guide to the Android framework location APIs in the package android.location. You can build these capabilities into your app using the classes of the android.location package and the Google Maps Android API. 

As with other system services, you do not instantiate a LocationManager directly. Rather, you request an instance from the system by calling getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE).

> Once your application has a LocationManager, your application is able to do three things:

• Query for the list of all LocationProviders for the last known user location.
• Register/unregister for periodic updates of the user's current location from a location provider (specified either by criteria or name).
• Register/unregister for a given Intent to be fired if the device comes within a given proximity (specified by radius in meters) of a given lat/long.

The Google Maps Android APIs are not included in the Android platform, but are available on any device with the Google Play Store running Android 2.2 or higher, through  Google Play services .