Best method to get the rough user movement speed

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I am using Google-Play-Services to track user activities. In case of a walking activity or bicycle activity I want to calculate the rough speed the user is moving. Is there any simple method? Location updates by Google-Play-Services are sometimes quite inaccurate since there is no good GPS signal in particular areas.

By the way, I realised the GPS location is getting very accurate when I start the google maps navigation application. I wonder how to get a location with the same percision without starting Google Navigation.

possible duplicate of [Calculating user moving speed in android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11643727/calculating-user-moving-speed-in-android) — bummi, Jul 06 '15 at 06:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '13 at 14:17

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If the Location was created by GPS, then use location.getSpeed().

answered Jun 20 '13 at 14:17

AlexWien

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