Find Friend Location Java Example-latitude.

[sampath premarathna]

Hello ,

Does anyone have any simple java source examples on how to find a "GPS" friend, determine if they are sharing their location via Google Latitude API and then get their location.
(this post may not suit for here but i post this here because i couldn't find any place to ask this and sorry for that).

thanks.
sampath premarathna.

[sampath premarathna]

Finally got a solution. first of all you have to get the user id for the user that you going to get location from https://www.google.com/latitude/apps -> Enable and show best available/Enable and show city-level only . then you can get JSON or ATOM format user details from latitude and then you can get the location and ... using that.
call--
LatitudeJSONParser.getPosition("http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=" + userid+ "&type=json");

you can find LatitudeJSONParser.java and other required java files from here.
http://code.google.com/p/whereisschtief/source/browse/trunk/?r=17#trunk/WhereIsSchtief/src/org/schtief/whereisschtief

[Chris Grant]

Sampath:

Thanks for doing this. I have been looking for this for a while and someone finally posted something on this. I followed your example. I have a gmail acct and an Android phone. I shared myself public and added this line of code in my app (note that MYUSERCODE has my real # from the latitide site):


Location l = LatitudeJSONParser.getPosition("https://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=MYUSERCODE&type=json");

I am getting back a location that seems to be in my neighborhood, but it does not update. The time stamp, lat and long stay the same and i drove around for a good mile. Any thoughts? I am updating the printout every second.

Chris

[sampath premarathna]

Sorry i cant give you a clear answer.But i think it may because of your internet connection.Google may get your location from that location and it is never change.something like that.

[Mostafa Mamdouh]

hey all,i need your help please, i downloaded the whole package ,when i try to use your command line,it gives me error it the object must start with "{",then i read in the class that object must start and end with "{" ,it gives me wrong exception and prints out saved data such as {"content":"This is a collection of test patterns and examples for org.json."}
{"list of lists": [,i really need your help.
Best Regards

[Mostafa Mamdouh]

thanks i fixed it ,dummy mistakes, for chris i think i got an answer for you,see it updates only based check in,but location history which google latitude record it every second isn't available for public