What is the actual string that is passed in in the onProviderEnabled(String provider) method?

Question

suppose you have a location listener that might be listening for location updates from the network provider. I want whenever the user enables GPS my listener to stop using network and start listening from the GPS.

My understanding is that whenever a provider is enabled it sends a message to the onProviderEnabled() method passing in a string with its name.

What is the actual value that is passed in for GPS? Is it "GPS", "gps" or "GPS_PROVIDER"?

Thanks

Mike

Answer 1

The SDK documentation provides the current value of the String literals for each defined constant:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager.html#GPS_PROVIDER

You can see that currently the value for LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER is "gps". However, in code you should always refer to this value by its constant LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER.

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