Vitally important for building the best possible mobile app, the Location and Context API allows your Android app behavior to change based on location.
Vitally important for building the best possible mobile app, the Location and Context API allows your Android app behavior to change based on location.
In this course, you’ll learn how to implement this with the Fused Location Provider, which gives you much more than simple GPS. You’ll also learn about Activity recognition, which allows you to tailor your app to what the user is doing. Finally, you’ll learn about Geofencing, and how location services work alongside geofences to allow you to build apps that could be used for augmented reality!
This course is part of the Google Play Services series, which features a variety of different Google APIs. Designed as standalone short courses, you can take any course on its own, or take them all!
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