How Do I Implement LocationClient within Intent Service?

Question

I'm a noob to android development and I am trying to figure out how to use the Fused Location Provider. I'm using this tutorial and have no issues implementing as the tutorial shows. However, now I want to get my last location from within an intent service. The problem is that a new instance of Location Client is not accepting context or context.getApplicationContext() as parameters for ConnectionCallbacks and ConnectionFailedListner. GooglePlayServicesClient.ConnectionCallbacks and GooglePlayServicesClient.OnConnectionFailedListener are implemented with their accompanying methods. Any help is greatly appreciated.

MY CODE

public class GCMIntentService extends GCMBaseIntentService implements GooglePlayServicesClient.ConnectionCallbacks,GooglePlayServicesClient.OnConnectionFailedListener,LocationListener{...

private static void generateNotification(Context context, String message) {
    int icon = R.drawable.ic_launcher;
    long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
    NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager)
            context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

    //Checking for message type
    //Received geofence coordinates
    if (message.contains("Your parent is acquiring your current location")){

        c = context;
    //Force get location                
    locationclient = new LocationClient(c,c,c);//<--Not working 
    locationclient = new LocationClient(c,c.getApplicationContext(),c.getApplicationContext());//<--Not working 
    locationrequest = LocationRequest.create();   
    locationrequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);                locationclient.connect();


    }else{...

Answer 1

How Do I Implement LocationClient within Intent Service?

You wouldn't. LocationClient's API is asynchronous, which does not work well with IntentService. Use a regular Service, manage your own background thread as needed, and call stopSelf() when you no longer need the service.

The problem is that a new instance of Location Client is not accepting context or context.getApplicationContext() as parameters for ConnectionCallbacks and ConnectionFailedListner.

You have to pass in implementations of those listener interfaces.

GooglePlayServicesClient.ConnectionCallbacks and GooglePlayServicesClient.OnConnectionFailedListener are implemented with their accompanying methods

Not on Context and not on Application. You did not write those classes -- Google did. You cannot implement those interfaces on those classes as a result.

Somewhere, perhaps, you did implement those interfaces, in which case you need to pass an instance of that object (or objects, plural) to the appropriate methods.