Finding Your Way
Apress eBooks · 2008
For many developers, the potential of location-based service (LBS) applications is the most exciting aspect of Java ME development today. The potential for new applications that use user position in conjunction with web-available data (for geocoded business locations, locating fellow users, real-time traffic, weather, and other incident information) is simply staggering. Whole new markets are emerging, such as cost-effective, real-time, location-aware navigation; social networking that involves friends’ locations; and dispatch and emergency service applications that tap a device’s location transparently. JSR 179 defines the Location API, which provides a simple optional API for determining a device’s location and sharing location preferences with other applications. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.