thanks for sharing this code. It was a great solution to test my GPS enabled Android app, because the emulator isn't working well for me (my application uses rather big digital maps in Bitmap format and the emulator keeps crashing).

I rewrote the code to make better use of the AsyncTask class. It provides a better way to control the Thread once it is started and also provides support for orientation changes (savedInstanceState).

You can download the code here: http://www.cowlumbus.nl/forum/MockGpsProvider.zip

Probably the easiest way to compile it is to extract the ZIP and then use the 'Import > General > Exisiting Projects into Workspace' Eclipse function. Browse to the folder and click Finish.

Paul

keep in mind that this is old code (don't recall if android 1.6 or 2.0) so it's very likely that it has changed in the meantime.

That being said, what i posted is pretty much all the code. The rest is just wiring that you should be able to put together from any simple android project tutorial.

@Override
public void run() {

Double latitude = 17.408305;
Double longitude = 78.465729;
Location location = new Location(mocLocationProvider);
location.setLatitude(latitude);
location.setLongitude(longitude);
location.setTime(System.currentTimeMillis());

locationManager.setTestProviderLocation(mocLocationProvider,
location);
}
}

public class GpsLocation extends Activity implements LocationListener {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

//((TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.textView)).setText("Something else");

LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

String mocLocationProvider = LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER;
locationManager.addTestProvider(mocLocationProvider, false, false,
false, false, true, true, true, 0, 5);
locationManager.setTestProviderEnabled(mocLocationProvider, true);
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(mocLocationProvider, 0, 0,this);

new MockLocationProvider(locationManager, mocLocationProvider).start();

}

}