Comments on: Location Based Services on Android – Part 1/3 – MyLocationOverlay

By: Dezzer

Dezzer — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:37:11 +0000

Good tutorial, wish I’d found it sooner, however on mine there is nothing showing for my location (no pin nor blue dot), also is it possible to change the marker with my own image?

Thanks,
Dez (UK)

By: RobvP

RobvP — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:53:04 +0000

Thx very much!

I had a lot of trouble getting the tutorials on internet running (DMMS didn’t work and I couldn’t find out why) but finally it all comes together by reading your blog. Part 3 also helps to get my first Android application up and running.

Thx again!
Tschüss,
Rob (NL)

By: Andreas Frey

Andreas Frey — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:39:27 +0000

An empty grid indicates, you have no valid Google maps API key. Have a look at this: http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/android/add-ons/google-apis/mapkey.html

By: roshan

roshan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:14:48 +0000

I have done as u directed. I am getting the grids of the google maps but not getting the maps on my android emulator.I donno if it is Internet problem. But i have set the internet permissions also.I am struggling to solve this problem from past three days.I have project demo on saturday. Could anyone help me on this issue as early as possible

By: Andreas Frey

Andreas Frey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:32:53 +0000

When you start the emulator, the port number it uses should be visible at the title of the emulator-window. Use the telnet command with that port.

By: jap

jap — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:20 +0000

Hi,
another question , I have typed
telnet localhost 5554
and I got a connection refused error,
I either looked through nmap localhost but there wasn’t such an open port and I have tried other open ports but they worked neither?

By: jap

jap — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:49:25 +0000

Thank you so much , problem solved .

By: Andreas Frey

Andreas Frey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:02:05 +0000

Please be sure to set the Android Build Target to the version with Google API, not only Android. (->Project properties -> Android)

By: jap

jap — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:11:32 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the tutorial but I have got a problem.
I have followed each step precisely but eclipse does not recagnize the google imports. e.g:

import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;

how can I solve this problem? thanks in advance

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:50:00 +0000

However this is not possible with a german operating system. Due to a bug in android concerning the different localised date format. But you can use telnet to connect to the emulator console and send a new position to the emulator.

1. open a terminal
2. type “telnet localhost 5554″ – you should now be connected to the emulator
3. send the geo fix command, for example “geo fix 9 49“

====>>>>> I don’t know how to run it, someone please helps