I'm trying to implement a thread so that I can send GPS coordinates in the background. I think I have a good start but I'm having a little trouble. Where it says locManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
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I'm getting an error on context (before getSystemService) which says "context cannot be resolved." I call this class from my main activity with the following statement new FindLocation(getBaseContext()).start(usr_id1);
maybe that has something to do with the problem.
public class FindLocation extends Thread {
private LocationManager locManager;
private LocationListener locListener;
Context ctx;
public String userId;
public FindLocation(Context ctx) {
this.ctx = ctx;
}
public void start(String userId) {
this.userId = userId;
super.start();
}
@Override
public void run() {
final String usr = userId;
//get a reference to the LocationManager
locManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
//checked to receive updates from the position
locListener = new LocationListener() {
public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) {
String lat = String.valueOf(loc.getLatitude());
String lon = String.valueOf(loc.getLongitude());
JSONArray jArray;
String result = null;
InputStream is = null;
StringBuilder sb = null;
ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("id", usr));
//http post
try{
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.example.com/test/example.php");
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
is = entity.getContent();
}catch(Exception e){
Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection"+e.toString());
}
//convert response to string
try{
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"iso-8859-1"),8);
sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append(reader.readLine() + "\n");
String line="0";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
result=sb.toString();
}
catch(Exception e){
Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
}
try{
jArray = new JSONArray(result);
JSONObject json_data=null;
for(int i=0;i<jArray.length();i++){
json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
String ct_name = json_data.getString("phoneID");
//stop = true;
Log.i("User ID", ct_name);
if(ct_name == usr) {
locManager.removeUpdates(locListener);
}
else{
Log.i("User ID", "NONE");
}
}
}
catch(Exception e){
//Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://example.com/test/example.php");
try {
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs1 = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs1.add(new BasicNameValuePair("lat", lat));
nameValuePairs1.add(new BasicNameValuePair("lon", lon));
nameValuePairs1.add(new BasicNameValuePair("id", usr));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs1));
httpclient.execute(httppost);
Log.i("SendLocation", "Yes");
}
catch (ClientProtocolException g) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
} catch (IOException f) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public void onProviderDisabled(String provider){
}
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider){
}
public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras){
}
};
locManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 6000, 0, locListener);
}
}
public FindLocation(Context ctx) {
this.ctx = ctx;
}
according to what you had posted you should use ctx
instead of context