History log of /frameworks/base/location/lib/java/com/android/location/provider/LocationProviderBase.java
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6090995951c6e2e4dcf38102f01793f8a94166e1 19-Nov-2013 John Spurlock <jspurlock@google.com> Remove unused imports from frameworks/base.

Change-Id: Ia1f99bd2c1105b0b0f70aa614f1f4a67b2840906
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8c84109b9fbbf473b225707a38261ff5f99d95fb 24-Jun-2013 Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Use FastPrintWriter... everywhere.

One problem this turned up is, because FastPrintWriter does
its own buffering, a lot of code that used to use PrintWriter
would fail -- if it pointed to a StringWriter, there was no
buffering, so it could just immediately get the result. Now
you need to first flush the FastPrintWriter.

Also added some new constructors to specify the size of buffer
that FastPrintWriter should use.

Change-Id: If48cd28d7be0b6b3278bbb69a8357e6ce88cf54a
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ccb4c318aa5150ba49b7e7878d20b4787d6bf723 12-Dec-2012 Laurent Tu <laurentt@google.com> Revert "Move location provider lib to frameworks/ex - 1"

This reverts commit 578081f9da7ddb056b9b98524c639acd9194ecb6.
/frameworks/base/location/lib/java/com/android/location/provider/LocationProviderBase.java
578081f9da7ddb056b9b98524c639acd9194ecb6 05-Dec-2012 Laurent Tu <laurentt@google.com> Move location provider lib to frameworks/ex - 1

Move location provider lib to frameworks/ex so it can be re-used in
GmsCore.

This is the frameworks/base part of the change (1).

Change-Id: Ifc31a6809876e9c9afb6ed841b66cf06de7e8964
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779b77455fc51382ecafa210b8a805d2a616da55 31-Oct-2012 Victoria Lease <violets@google.com> fix NLP for COARSE applications, build FLP with SDK

In this commit, we provide a means for unbundled location providers
to attach an EXTRA_NO_GPS_LOCATION to the Locations that they report.

We also build FusedLocation against the SDK rather than the internal
tree.

Used in conjunction with I394ded497b8de40d1f85618bff282553cdf378cb
to fix NLP for applications with only ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
permission.

Bug: 7453355
Change-Id: Ie696f7abff9ef5237740ab87fe9f537a1c812c54
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b03c8c508dcbbef364e624ad5bc0ab6fa6733dc7 15-Aug-2012 Nick Pelly <npelly@google.com> Add documentation for com.android.location.provider shared library.

Change-Id: I222d61811c88272e84a85512623210c0238337e5
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6fa9ad4afcd762aea519ff61811386c23d18ddb2 16-Jul-2012 Nick Pelly <npelly@google.com> Location overhaul, major commit.

Themes: Fused Location, Geofencing, LocationRequest.

API changes
o Fused location is always returned when asking for location by Criteria.
o Fused location is never returned as a LocationProvider object, nor returned
as a provider String. This wouldn't make sense because the current API
design assumes that LocationProvider's have fixed properties (accuracy, power
etc).
o The fused location engine will tune itself based on the criteria passed
by applications.
o Deprecate LocationProvider. Apps should use fused location (via Criteria
class), instead of enumerating through LocationProvider objects. It is
also over-engineered: designed for a world with a plethora of location
providers that never materialized.
o The Criteria class is also over-engineered, with many methods that aren't
currently used, but for now we won't deprecate them since they may have
value in the future. It is now used to tune the fused location engine.
o Deprecate getBestProvider() and getProvider().
o Add getLastKnownLocation(Criteria), so we can return last known
fused locations.
o Apps with only ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION _can_ now use the GPS, but the location
they receive will be fudged to a 1km radius. They can also use NETWORK
and fused locatoins, which are fudged in the same way if necessary.
o Totally deprecate Criteria, in favor of LocationRequest.
Criteria was designed to map QOS to a location provider. What we
really need is to map QOS to _locations_.
The death knell was the conflicting ACCURACY_ constants on
Criteria, with values 1, 2, 3, 1, 2. Yes not a typo.
o Totally deprecate LocationProvider.
o Deprecate test/mock provider support. They require a named provider,
which is a concept we are moving away from. We do not yet have a
replacement, but I think its ok to deprecate since you also
need to have 'allow mock locations' checked in developer settings.
They will continue to work.
o Deprecate event codes associated with provider status. The fused
provider is _always_ available.
o Introduce Geofence data object to provide an easier path fowards
for polygons etc.

Implementation changes
o Fused implementation: incoming (GPS and NLP) location fixes are given
a weight, that exponentially decays with respect to age and accuracy.
The half-life of age is ~60 seconds, and the half-life of accuracy is
~20 meters. The fixes are weighted and combined to output a fused
location.
o Move Fused Location impl into
frameworks/base/packages/FusedLocation
o Refactor Fused Location behind the IProvider AIDL interface. This allow us
to distribute newer versions of Fused Location in a new APK, at run-time.
o Introduce ServiceWatcher.java, to refactor code used for run-time upgrades of
Fused Location, and the NLP.
o Fused Location is by default run in the system server (but can be moved to
any process or pacakge, even at run-time).
o Plumb the Criteria requirements through to the Fused Location provider via
ILocation.sendExtraCommand(). I re-used this interface to avoid modifying the
ILocation interface, which would have broken run-time upgradability of the
NLP.
o Switch the geofence manager to using fused location.
o Clean up 'adb shell dumpsys location' output.
o Introduce config_locationProviderPackageNames and
config_overlay_locationProviderPackageNames to configure the default
and overlay package names for Geocoder, NLP and FLP.
o Lots of misc cleanup.
o Improve location fudging. Apply random vector then quantize.
o Hide internal POJO's from clients of com.android.location.provider.jar
(NLP and FLP). Introduce wrappers ProviderRequestUnbundled and
ProviderPropertiesUnbundled.
o Introduce ProviderProperties to collapse all the provider accuracy/
bearing/altitude/power plumbing (that is deprecated anyway).
o DELETE lots of code: DummyLocationProvider,
o Rename the (internal) LocationProvider to LocationProviderBase.
o Plumb pid, uid and packageName throughout
LocationManagerService#Receiver to support future features.

TODO: The FLP and Geofencer have a lot of room to be more intelligent
TODO: Documentation
TODO: test test test

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