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Geo-location based content (Intro)

03/09/2011 Leave a comment

The deeper we go into the mobile age the more location based services surround us. Content management systems also have to keep up. In the end – location based-content always follows the location based services.

Being open source enthusiast I am using Hippo CMS for one of my hobby projects where I need to have the ability to tag content with GPS coordinates so that I could use, for example Google Maps, to show how the content is related to a certain place.
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Android: retrieving your current location

10/05/2010 2 comments

Last week I received my brand new HTC Desire smartphone which is running Android version 2.1. This week I finally got the chance to do some programming on the Android platform. My current employer, IPROFS, has customers that are interested in Android applications, so I am allowed to spend some time to get to know the platform.

If you have no Android experience yet, I recommend viewing the Android introduction movies first, they provide an excellent overview of the Android platform and the ideas behind it.

For the current application I`m working on I need to retrieve the location of the user. In this article I will explain two possibilities for retrieving the users location. The first one is through the network provider and the second one is through GPS.

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