Retrieving location every 5 seconds

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Hi I am creating a project. It is about tracking a driver. The driver must send his location every 5 seconds to the Firebase. My problem is how do the passenger retrieve the location of the driver every 5 seconds too.

Possible duplicate of [Good way of getting the user's location in Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6181704/good-way-of-getting-the-users-location-in-android) — Shabbir Dhangot, Sep 26 '16 at 11:12
If your driver sends the location to the Firebase Database, any connected passengers will automatically receive that location. See the Firebase documentation on how to retrieve data from the database: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/retrieve-data — Frank van Puffelen, Sep 26 '16 at 14:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '16 at 11:18

In a nutshell:

LocationRequest locationrequest = LocationRequest.create();
locationrequest.setInterval(5000);   // 5 seconds
LocationClient locationclient = new LocationClient(this, this, this);
locationclient.requestLocationUpdates(locationrequest, this);

https://developer.android.com/training/location/index.html

In this link, it is suggested that you use the new Google Play services location APIs. But they have the same idea.

Retrieving location every 5 seconds

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