I have a bunch of people reporting an error that I cannot reproduce. When trying to open a MapView
it's reporting that the getBestProvider
is returning null and I know that means that that no provider is found that fulfills my criteria which is ACCURACY_COARSE
so if there is no GPS then it should fall back on either network or passive
but it obviously doesn't on those user devices. What would that even mean then that GPS is off and there is no network connection?
I tried turning GPS off and putting the phone into airplane mode to try to reproduce the problem but still I was able to open the mapview without a force close so I don't know how to handle this problem.
locationManager = (LocationManager) this.getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
geocoder = new Geocoder(this);
Criteria criteria = new Criteria();
criteria.setAccuracy(Criteria.ACCURACY_COARSE);
List<String> lProviders = locationManager.getProviders(false);
for(int i=0; i<lProviders.size(); i++){
Log.d("LocationActivity", lProviders.get(i));
}
String provider = locationManager.getBestProvider(criteria, true); // null
long minTime = 60000;
float minDistance = 5;
locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, minTime, minDistance, this);
error
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{ecm2.android/ecm2.android.LocationActivity}:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: provider==null
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2663)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2679)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2033)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: provider==null
at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:625)
at ecm2.android.LocationActivity.onCreate(LocationActivity.java:142)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)