How to update current location latitude and longitude for Real Time Database

Question

I was getting a current device location using FusedLocationProviderClient`

com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task<Location> location = mFusedLocationProviderClient.getLastLocation();
                location.addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Location>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onComplete(@NonNull com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task<Location> task) {
                        if(task.isSuccessful()){
                            Location currentLocation = task.getResult();

                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Detecting current Location",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

                            moveCamera(new LatLng(currentLocation.getLatitude(),currentLocation.getLongitude()),ZOOM,"My Location");


                            mUserLocalStore = new UserLocalStore(getApplicationContext());
                            db = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
                            mRef = db.getReference("Location");
                            mRef.setValue(String.valueOf(mUserLocalStore.getDetails().getEmail()+" "+currentLocation.getLatitude()+" ,"+String.valueOf(currentLocation.getLongitude())));

and save location in firebase, How to update location to firebase when change location or given in to the time period`

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 09 '18 at 11:03

Check this little example, it should solve your problem. Please check onConnected() method, there is the logic you need, I also let you all the code that make it work all together if you need:

 package current_location_to_firebase.mytrendin.com.currentlocation;


    import android.location.Location;
    import android.os.Bundle;

    import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
    import android.util.Log;
    import android.view.Menu;
    import android.view.MenuItem;
    import android.view.View;
    import android.widget.Button;
    import android.widget.TextView;
    import android.widget.Toast;

    import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
    import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
    import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationServices;
    import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks;
    import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener;
    import com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp;
    import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
    import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;


    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements
            ConnectionCallbacks, OnConnectionFailedListener {

        private static final String TAG = "CurrentLocationApp";
        private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
        private Location mLastLocation;
        private TextView mLatitudeText;
        private TextView mLongitudeText;
        private FirebaseDatabase mFirebaseDatabase;
        private DatabaseReference mLocationDatabaseReference;
        Button saveLocationToFirebase;
        String value_lat = null;
        String value_lng=null;


        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            FirebaseApp.initializeApp(this);
            mFirebaseDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
            mLocationDatabaseReference= mFirebaseDatabase.getReference().child("my current location");
            mLatitudeText = (TextView) findViewById((R.id.latitude_text));
            mLongitudeText = (TextView) findViewById((R.id.longitude_text));
            saveLocationToFirebase=(Button)findViewById(R.id.save_location);
            buildGoogleApiClient();
        }

        protected synchronized void buildGoogleApiClient() {
            mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
                    .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
                    .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
                    .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                    .build();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onStart() {
            super.onStart();
            mGoogleApiClient.connect();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onStop() {
            super.onStop();
            if (mGoogleApiClient.isConnected()) {
                mGoogleApiClient.disconnect();
            }
        }
        @Override
        public void onConnected(Bundle connectionHint) {
            mLastLocation = LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.getLastLocation(mGoogleApiClient);

                if (mLastLocation != null) {

                            value_lat= String.valueOf(mLastLocation.getLatitude());
                            value_lng =String.valueOf(mLastLocation.getLongitude());
                    mLatitudeText.setText(value_lat);
                    mLongitudeText.setText(value_lng);

                    saveLocationToFirebase.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(View view) {
                            mLocationDatabaseReference.push().setValue("Latitude : "+value_lat +"  &amp; Longitude : "+value_lng);
                            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this ,"Location saved to the Firebasedatabase",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    });
                }
        }
        @Override
        public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult result) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Connection failed: ConnectionResult.getErrorCode() = " + result.getErrorCode());
        }
         @Override
        public void onConnectionSuspended(int cause) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Connection suspended");
            mGoogleApiClient.connect();
        }

    }

Remember in your database rules to set it to true if they are turned false for just auth users to post into it

saveLocationToFirebase is a button that should be initialized in your XML, so when we click it you update the values to the database, if you want them to do it by itself attach a listener to the latitude and longitude, so, when they change it will prompt the upload to the database.

is this can update location continuously for the same id to the fire-base database ? — Prabodha Manoranga, May 24 '18 at 21:02
yes , but in this example you will need to press a button, to do it by itself set a thread.sleep and you can send data for each time you put into it, so you can do for example, Thread.sleep(5000) ... and it will send the data every 5 seconds, but in order to do this , you will need to access Thread.sleep each time you want to update the database — Gastón Saillén, May 24 '18 at 21:03
if you can give me a example code way of access thread.sleep it will be a great — Prabodha Manoranga, May 24 '18 at 21:10
can you give me a sample code? i tried more time but all are not working. — Prabodha Manoranga, May 25 '18 at 04:41
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24879303/making-a-thread-to-sleep-for-30-minutes — Gastón Saillén, May 25 '18 at 17:25

How to update current location latitude and longitude for Real Time Database

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