I want to get longitude and latitude in Android emulator for testing.
Can any one guide me how to achieve this?
How do I set the location of the emulator to a test position?
I want to get longitude and latitude in Android emulator for testing.
Can any one guide me how to achieve this?
How do I set the location of the emulator to a test position?
You can connect to the Emulator via Telnet. You then have a Emulator console that lets you enter certain data like geo fixes, network etc.
How to use the console is extensively explained here. To connect to the console open a command line and type
telnet localhost 5554
You then can use the geo command to set a latitude, longitude and if needed altitude on the device that is passed to all programs using the gps location provider. See the link above for further instructions.
The specific command to run in the console is
geo fix <longitude value> <latitude value>
I found this site useful for finding a realistic lat/lng: http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
If you need more then one coordinate you can use a kml file with a route as well it is a little bit described in this article. I can't find a better source at the moment.
No one here mentioned the built in solution of the emulator itself, so for future visitors, I'd like to share it with visuals.
First, run your Android Emulator and click on the menu button (3 dots) shown below:
Then from the left pane, select Location and change the coordinates according to your needs. After pressing Send button, changes will immediately take effect (I recommend you to open up Google Maps for better understanding).
Android Studio Version: 2.3.3
In addition, to make your different locations coming to your application in real time, you can use GPX file. It's very easy to create this file from Google Map direction link:
Use "Load GPS/KML" button to load the created file to your emulator, choose speed, and press green play button on the bottom. Locations will be sent in real time as shown on the picture below.
I was looking for a better way to set the emulator's GPS coordinates than using geo fix
and manually determining the specific latitude and longitude coordinates.
Unable to find anything, I put together a little program that uses GWT and the Google Maps API to launch a browser-based map tool to set the GPS location in the emulator:
Hopefully it can be of use to help others who will undoubtedly stumble across this difficulty/question as well.
Assuming you've got a mapview set up and running:
MapView mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
final MyLocationOverlay myLocation = new MyLocationOverlay(this, mapView);
mapView.getOverlays().add(myLocation);
myLocation.enableMyLocation();
myLocation.runOnFirstFix(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
GeoPoint pt = myLocation.getMyLocation();
}
});
You'll need the following permission in your manifest:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
And to send mock coordinates to the emulator from Eclipse, Go to the "Window" menu, select "Show View" > "Other" > "Emulator control", and you can send coordinates from the emulator control pane that appears.
For the new emulator:
http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#extended
Basically, click on the three dots button in the emulator controls (to the right of the emulator) and it will open up a menu which will allow you to control the emulator including location
1. Android Studio users.
After running the emulator goto Tools->Android->Android device monitor
Click the Emulator Control Tab change from the location controls group.
2. Eclipse users.
First In Eclipse In Menu Select "Window" then Select "Open Perspective" then Select "DDMS". i.e Window->Open Prespective->DDMS.
You will see on Left Side Devices Panel and on Right Side you will see different tabs. Select "Emulator Control" Tab.
At bottom you will see Location Controls Panel. Select "Manual" Tab.
Enter Longitude and Latitude in Textboxs then Click Send Button. It will send the position to you emulator and the application.
3. Using telnet.
In the run command type this.
telnet localhost 5554
If you are not using windows you can use any telnet client.
After connecting with telnet use the following command to send your position to emulator.
geo fix long lat
geo fix -121.45356 46.51119 4392
4. Use the browser based Google maps tool
There is a program that uses GWT and the Google Maps API to launch a browser-based map tool to set the GPS location in the emulator:
Finally with the latest release of Android Studio 4 and his new Emulator update 10/23/2019 it become easier. Start your emulator and go to emulator parameters ... > in "Routes" tab you can choose two points on the map from/to and start a new route with an adjustable playback speed that can go to more than 1000km/h!
Using the "geo" command in the emulator console
To send mock location data from the command line:
Launch your application in the Android emulator and open a terminal/console in your SDK's /tools directory.
Connect to the emulator console:
telnet localhost 5555
(Replace 5555 with whatever port your emulator is running on)
Send the location data: * geo fix to send a fixed geo-location.
This command accepts a longitude and latitude in decimal degrees, and an optional altitude in meters. For example:
geo fix -121.45356 46.51119 4392
I wrote a python script to push gps locations to the emulator via telnet. It defines a source and a destination location. There is also a time offset which lets you control how long coordinates will be pushed to the device. One location is beeing pushed once a second.
In the example below the script moves from Berlin to Hamburg in 120 seconds. One step/gps location per second with random distances.
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import telnetlib
from time import sleep
import random
HOST = "127.0.0.1"
PORT = 5554
TIMEOUT = 10
LAT_SRC = 52.5243700
LNG_SRC = 13.4105300
LAT_DST = 53.5753200
LNG_DST = 10.0153400
SECONDS = 120
LAT_MAX_STEP = ((max(LAT_DST, LAT_SRC) - min(LAT_DST, LAT_SRC)) / SECONDS) * 2
LNG_MAX_STEP = ((max(LNG_DST, LNG_SRC) - min(LNG_DST, LNG_SRC)) / SECONDS) * 2
DIRECTION_LAT = 1 if LAT_DST - LAT_SRC > 0 else -1
DIRECTION_LNG = 1 if LNG_DST - LNG_SRC > 0 else -1
lat = LAT_SRC
lng = LNG_SRC
tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST, PORT, TIMEOUT)
tn.set_debuglevel(9)
tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(LNG_SRC, LAT_SRC))
#tn.write("exit\n")
for i in range(SECONDS):
lat += round(random.uniform(0, LAT_MAX_STEP), 7) * DIRECTION_LAT
lng += round(random.uniform(0, LNG_MAX_STEP), 7) * DIRECTION_LNG
#tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(lng, lat))
#tn.write("exit\n")
sleep(1)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(LNG_DST, LAT_DST))
tn.write("exit\n")
print tn.read_all()
If the above solutions don't work. Try this:
Inside your android Manifest.xml, add the following two links OUTSIDE of the application tag, but inside your manifest tag of course
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" ></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" ></uses-permission>
The already mentioned multiple times answer to use the shell command "geo fix..." is the correct answer. But in case you use LocationClient.getLastLocation() to retrieve your data it is worth to mention that it will not work at first. The LocationClient class uses the Google Play Service to retrieve the coordinates. For me this started working after running the emulators maps app once. During the first start you are asked to allow google apps access to your location, which I guess does the trick.
For a project of my own, I developed an online service which can provide simulated location to the Android emulator.
It uses geo nmea rather than geo fix which allows it to set speed, course, precise time etc. in addition to just lat/lon.
The service requires the nc (netcat) command line utility and nothing else.
You can use an emulator like genymotion which gives you the flexibility to emulate your present GPS location, etc.
There is a plugin for Android Studio called “Mock Location Plugin”. You can emulate multiple points with this plugin. You can find a detailed manual of use in this link: Android Studio. Simulate multiple GPS points with Mock Location Plugin
Can't comment yet, so updating @ectomorphs answer here, which when telneting now requires to have an auth token. In linux that's under /home/username/.emulator_console_auth_token
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import telnetlib
from time import sleep
import random
FILE = open('/home/username/.emulator_console_auth_token', 'r')
AUTH_TOKEN = FILE.read()
FILE.close()
HOST = "127.0.0.1"
PORT = 5554
TIMEOUT = 10
LAT_SRC = 52.5243700
LNG_SRC = 13.4105300
LAT_DST = 53.5753200
LNG_DST = 10.0153400
SECONDS = 120
LAT_MAX_STEP = ((max(LAT_DST, LAT_SRC) - min(LAT_DST, LAT_SRC)) / SECONDS) * 2
LNG_MAX_STEP = ((max(LNG_DST, LNG_SRC) - min(LNG_DST, LNG_SRC)) / SECONDS) * 2
DIRECTION_LAT = 1 if LAT_DST - LAT_SRC > 0 else -1
DIRECTION_LNG = 1 if LNG_DST - LNG_SRC > 0 else -1
lat = LAT_SRC
lng = LNG_SRC
tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST, PORT, TIMEOUT)
tn.set_debuglevel(9)
tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.write("auth {0}\n".format(AUTH_TOKEN))
tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(LNG_SRC, LAT_SRC))
#tn.write("exit\n")
for i in range(SECONDS):
lat += round(random.uniform(0, LAT_MAX_STEP), 7) * DIRECTION_LAT
lng += round(random.uniform(0, LNG_MAX_STEP), 7) * DIRECTION_LNG
#tn.read_until("OK", 5)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(lng, lat))
#tn.write("exit\n")
sleep(1)
tn.write("geo fix {0} {1}\n".format(LNG_DST, LAT_DST))
tn.write("exit\n")
print tn.read_all()
From a shell script one can set the coorinate like so
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export ATOKEN=`cat ~/.emulator_console_auth_token`
echo -ne "auth $ATOKEN\ngeo fix -99.133333 19.43333 2202\n" | nc localhost 5554