Awareness API: com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException: 15

Question

In my onCreate I call the following function to detect the weather.

private void detectWeather() {
        if( !checkLocationPermission() ) {
            return;
        }

        Awareness.getSnapshotClient(this).getWeather()
                .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<WeatherResponse>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onSuccess(WeatherResponse weatherResponse) {
                        Weather weather = weatherResponse.getWeather();
                    }
                })
                .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                        Log.e("Testing", "Could not get weather: " + e);
                    }
                });
    }

In my Manifest file I have added the following meta data and permissions:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.gms.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION" />

<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.awareness.API_KEY"
    android:value="MYKEY"/>

<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY"
    android:value="MYKEY"/>

And in my Gradle file I've added the following dependencies.

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-awareness:+'

The app launches fine and gets to the awareness API, however it throws the following error in the log: com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException: 15. I can't really find the explanation for this error in the documentation nor on Google/Stackoverflow. Am I missing something obvious?

I found that the Error code 15 is for TIMEOUT.See: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/common/api/CommonStatusCodes — Keval Patel, Jan 30 '18 at 03:38
Yes, according to the docs at: https://developers.google.com/awareness/android-api/get-started @ArghadipDasCEO — Bram, Feb 11 '18 at 12:02

Chris Watts · Answer 1 · 2020-05-05T10:21:17.007

For future readers, weather and place is now deprecated in the Google Awareness API.

An alternative is the NumberEight SDK, which can do a lot more than Awareness (although no regioning is available at the time of writing).

It performs a wide variety of context recognition tasks on both iOS and Android including:

Real-time physical activity detection
Current place categories
Motion detection
Reachability
Local weather

It can also record user context for reports and analysis via the online portal.

To quickly receive weather updates in Java, you would write:

NumberEight ne = new NumberEight();

ne.onWeatherUpdated(
    new NumberEight.SubscriptionCallback<NEWeather>() {
        @Override
        public void onUpdated(@NonNull Glimpse<NEWeather> glimpse) {
            Log.d("CurrentWeather", glimpse.getMostProbable().toString());
        }
    });

Here are some iOS and Android example projects.

Disclosure: I'm one of the developers.

Awareness API: com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException: 15

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