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I am working on an android app where i need to make fake locations at different timings. Is this possible to do this by pushing XML to a android device?

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If you're using Eclipse with the Android ADT tools installed, you can switch to the DDMS perspective and under the emulator control options, there are geolocation settings. You can send a single location or use a GPX or KML file to "play back" a series of locations (to simulate driving a route, for example)

You can create KML routes in apps like Google Earth, or code it by hand in XML. Sounds like exactly what you're looking for.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/android/devguide/guide/developing/tools/ddms.html

There's also an emulator called Genymotion that runs on VirtualBox that has APIS for things like location simulation. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I'm very impressed:

http://www.genymotion.com/

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  • Thanks @AWT not sure how can i code it in XML at different location with different timings! – LearningCode May 28 '14 at 15:07
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    This tutorial on KML is a good start: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/mobile/providing-gps-coordinates-via-the-eclipse-android-simulator.html. If this answer helped you, please upvote and accept. Thanks! – AWT May 28 '14 at 15:14
  • Also updated the original answer, you might want to look into the Genymotion emulator as well. – AWT May 28 '14 at 15:22
  • i don't think genymotion can simulate driving a route – LearningCode May 28 '14 at 15:24
  • It has an API you can call from outside of the emulator that allows you to set coordinates within the emulator. If you had a shell script with delays, or a simple java program, you could easily send a sequence of coordinates with a delay between each. – AWT May 28 '14 at 15:49
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You can use a mock location provider. In your case you could probably have a class in control of the mock provider that feeds data based on some xml file input.

See: Android mock location on device?

It would be easy to implement an interface and switch between live and mock providers. This would allow runtime mocking which I assume is what you are asking for.

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