How to send network location (not GPS) to android emulator

Question

I want to test my app on an emulated device that does not have a GPS, and just have network location. I have created the hardware profile for a device without GPS.

How can I send a LAT/LONG location to this emulator using network location? The only option I see on the emulator is to send the location as GPS data point.

Note this is different from How to emulate GPS location in the Android Emulator?. I want the network location, not GPS location. they are from different location providers although they return the same information.

background

There are some platform changes affecting API 21 coming on 15 Oct 2016, and I would like to test the user experience for my app due to the changes. This include testing on emulated devices

with network location without GPS
with GPS without network location

According to https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/strategies.html#Permission, we now need to include either of the following uses-feature into the manifest

android.hardware.location.network or android.hardware.location.gps

my app requires either one of the two, so I included the following

<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.location"  />
<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.location.gps"
    android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.location.network"
    android:required="false" />

The following questions contains some information regarding the changes:

When do I need android.hardware.location.gps and android.hardware.location.network? and

Android : create simulator without GPS hardware

@yong.k different question. I do not want to emulate a GPS location. I want to emulate a network location. They are different location providers. — Angel Koh, Sep 22 '16 at 01:34
Also network delivers lot/lan, thus it's a duplicate. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6775257/android-location-providers-gps-or-network-provider — tuergeist, Sep 22 '16 at 03:09
@tuergeist, unfortunately, the question you list did not say how to emulate the positions with network location. GPS_PROVIDER and NETWORK_PROVIDER triggers different part of my codes (basically some visual cues on the UI). I want to test the parts relating to NETWORK_PROVIDER. — Angel Koh, Sep 22 '16 at 03:17
@AngelKoh, I'm not an expert, but for me it looks like that what you want is impossible. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2424564/activating-network-location-provider-in-the-android-emulator — tuergeist, Sep 22 '16 at 03:24

How to send network location (not GPS) to android emulator

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