GPS

Android defines a user space C abstraction interface for GPS hardware. The interface header is defined ininclude/hardware/gps.h. In order to integate GPS with Android, you need to build a shared library that implements this interface.

Building a GPS Library

To implement a GPS driver, create a shared library that implements the interface defined ingps.h. You must name your shared library libgps.so so that it will get loaded from/system/lib at runtime. Place GPS sources and Android.mk in vendor/acme/chipset_or_board/gps/ (where "acme" is your organization name and "chipset_or_board" is your hardware target).

The following stub Android.mk file ensures that libgps compiles and links to the appropriate libraries:

LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)

LOCAL_MODULE := libgps

LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES:= \
# include any static library dependencies

LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := \
# include any shared library dependencies

LOCAL_SRC_FILES += \
# include your source files.  eg. MyGpsLibrary.cpp

LOCAL_CFLAGS += \
# include any needed compile flags

LOCAL_C_INCLUDES:= \
# include any needed local header files

include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)

Interface

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gps.h File Reference

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