Android emulator location elevation : getting very few location data

Question

Using LocationManager with a GPS_PROVIDER on API Level 23 on android emulator of Android studio.

Getting location every 5 seconds with a minDistance of 0:

lm.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 5000, 0, ll);

I get longitude and latitude correctly every 5 seconds, but the elevation very scarcely and randomly.

During one minute, location.hasAltitude() is false, and location.getAltitude() equals 0, and then I will get a correct value.

Is this because of the emulator hardware ? Can I get more data ?

Answer 1

As pointed out most emulators are not made for hardware testing or hardware simulation, and their GPS data is not realistic.

What can be done is replaying data from a real device on the emulator. On different emulators this can be done by importing a GPX or KLM file exported from different GPS applications, from a real device, or from the emulated one if the application allows drawing arbitrary routes.