Delphi Get LocationSensor Speed on Android

Question

I'm currently developing a Localization Android App on Delphi / RADStudio Tokyo 10.2

I'm pretty new to delphi programming, and I am looking for a way to get the speed property of the LocationSensor. Through the documentation I found this:

LocationSensor1.Sensor.Speed

But it always returns NaN, so I did some digging and found this in System.Sensors:

function TCustomLocationSensor.GetDoubleProperty(Prop: TProperty): Double;
begin
  Result := NaN;
end;

So I am confused, am I using the wrong property, or using it wrongly ? If so what should I use, or how should I use it?

EDIT

My question differs from Xe5 locationsensor distance doesn't work? as I have no problem with GPS precision (or at least it doesn't seem so), allthough they might not be unrelated.The application communicates with a Server, that will display it's position and it's trajectory on a web browser.

For optimal usage, I have to transmit the travelling speed of the device. I thought of using Accelerometer at first, but it didn't fit the situation. Then I stumbled upon this on the embarcadero documentation : http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Tokyo/en/System.Sensors.TCustomLocationSensor.Speed

This was precisely what I needed, but when i try to get the value it always returns NaN, as explained above. Whilst debugging, I finally found the code showed above in System.Sensors and I thought it was strange that the function always returns NaN no matter what happens, as I found no help online ( just a few websites in japanese or russian http://www.360doc.com/content/17/0502/18/9200790_650383719.shtml http://www.cyberforum.ru/delphi-beginners/thread1386722.html) I posted here.

Possible duplicate of [Xe5 locationsensor distance doesn't work?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20939472/xe5-locationsensor-distance-doesnt-work) — RBA, Dec 06 '17 at 12:11
You're much better off learning how to implement Android api LocationServices. The locationsensor is very battery hungry and particularly uncontrollable. — Freddie Bell, Dec 06 '17 at 17:19

Tomasz Andrzejewski · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-09T16:14:18.363

Try to do not use standard firemonkey TLocationSensor. Instead of that try implement solution based on native java classes (JLocationListener).

  TAndroidLocationListener = class(TJavaLocal, JLocationListener)
  public
    constructor Create();
    procedure onLocationChanged(location: JLocation); cdecl;
    procedure onProviderDisabled(provider: JString); cdecl;
    procedure onProviderEnabled(provider: JString); cdecl;
    procedure onStatusChanged(provider: JString; status: Integer; extras: JBundle); cdecl;
  end;

in onLocationChanged(location: JLocation); cdecl; you will get instance of current location object (java interface)

For test purposes create notification event with message location.getSpeed.ToString()

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Delphi Get LocationSensor Speed on Android

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