Getting Location In A Service

[Andy Crowther]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please.  I'm making a simple weather app, the main purpose is to warn me the night before, if the weather will be icy, wet etc overnight or in the morning.

It all works fine in the app itself, parsing the weather info etc, so now I want to make the notification build when the service is called.  I've generally just copied the working code from the app and built it in the notification receiver, but the location isn't being found.

I have this -

public class NotificationReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver implements
        GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks, GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener {

    private static final String TAG = "NotificationReceiver";

    GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
    
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        Log.i(TAG, "onReceive");

        // for getting last known location
        if (mGoogleApiClient == null) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Building mGoogleApiClient");
            mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
                    .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
                    .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
                    .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                    .build();
        }

    }

In the app this then calls onConnected, but in the service it doesn't.  What do I need to change in the service to get the location just the once?

Thanks

[Marco Behler]

Hi Andy,
sorry , your problem description is confusing. I don't really know WHAT the problem is here and also - at least for me - I cannot truly parse "it all works fine in the app, ...but the location isn't being found"

[Andy Crowther]

Sorry, when I say 'in the app' I meant in the main activity. If I actually open the app, the above code is in onCreate, the location is found (onConnected is called) and everything works.  When I quit, an alarm is set to call the notification receiver at a set time which contains the same code (as seen above) but when the api is built and called in onReceive, it never calls onConnected.

Does that make sense?  Happy to try again if needed

[Andy Crowther]

I realise I shouldn't have called it a service either, it's a Notification Receiver.

Also, I had another look and realised I didn't call mGoogleApiClient.connect() at any point...  seems to work now