How to Track Your Users Location in the Background in Android - Android Studio Tutorial

Tracking the user's location in Android is often needed when your app is minimized. Thanks to foreground services that works really well and without many restrictions. In this video I'll show you how.

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[sahilkanabar]

How can I be so lucky I just had a project with background tracking and here it is by best teacher like him on youtube .❤

[juansuarez]

Congrats!! Really good tutorial, well explained and keeping it as simple as possible

[lifebylazy]

"To provide a streamlined experience for short-running foreground services, devices that run Android 12 or higher can delay the display of foreground service notifications by 10 seconds, with a few exceptions. This change gives short-lived tasks a chance to complete before their notifications appear." - Android Docs, if anyone was curious about that weird delay behavior

[BapeRuLLZ]

I think we may be able to improve upon the DefaultLocationClient class by putting all the locationmanager checking methods and also the context extension function into usecase classes that are wrapped by interfaces and the DefaultLocationClient class would depend upon those. That way you could unit test the class better by providing different mock implementations for the interfaces so if you would want to write a test case that checks the output if for example the gps is enabled but the location is not, then that way you could easily do that. It might be overkill but I think every unit test in itself could seem like an overkill. Just my two cents.

[muhammadirfanrajput]

Android gives continuous pain by continuous changing android SDK

[chabbishreels]

What a great video, helps A LOT in the beginning.

[learner]

Thank you Philipp for this wonderful video.

[halvtysk]

Nice video, we have this setup in our app, albeit implemented before the introduction of flows.

If you "take requests" for future videos, I would love to see your approach to handling automatic startup of these types of services when a BLE device is present. Our devices requires physical activation and for our app to be ready for this, we have to keep a sticky notification at all times which is ugly. There are workarounds to use "companion devices", but the support for proximity to BLE devices seems limited to the latter two (?) Android versions. It would be interesting to see how you would handle the "do stuff when in proximity"-approach for both newer Android devices as well as for older.

[KhadijaHameed-bxmt]

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[maximooze]

send(location), exactly how khabib said it. Thanks again @Philipp

[elgracko]

Oh, this worked perfectly, thanks!! you have no idea how much this helps!!

I'm definetly buying you that coffee, right now|

[PrabhatPandey-jkur]

Thank you brother, you made our life easy.

[mustafaammar]

Very cool video
Thank You Bro
Wish you all the best

[AnkitKumar-ddfo]

Adding in Manifest file is very crucial for foreground service to run even if app is closed in higher android version.

[mukammart]

Hello! Can we unit test for FusedLocationProviderClient using mock? or we have to write ui test for it?

[Giulyozz]

hi philip, great video, I was wondering if you had any suggestion for using a default location listener instead of fused location, i need my app to work without play services, thanks

[SengKuz]

Nice video, Thank you for your source code. it has useful to my develop about show location.

[aviksutar]

Can you make a tutorial on complex survey form using json. Mean to say that the form is dynamically created from server end json response with multiple different layouts like rating bar, editext, radiobutton, spinners

[EmanNollase]

nice tutorial. qq, what is the difference between foreground service vs WorkerManager?

[Adam]

Thank you Philipp🔥
Could you make a tutorial about How to observe new data in the backgroud and then fire a notificarion.

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